• 영어영문학
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.993-1011
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• 2009

Generally, the parts narrated by Esther in Bleak House has been considered less convincing and reliable than those by the anonymous narrator for some problematic qualities in her character and narration. However, Esther's narrative shows Dickens' masterly depiction of emotional deprivation, the psychic consequences of the Victorian sexual repression on its victim. Therefore, to restore the reliability of Esther's narrative is the prerequisite for claiming its value as an appropriate locus of the meanings of the text. On the other hand, the anonymous narrator is not so omniscient as he has been regarded. As the chapters proceed, his omniscient power and authority is conspicuously weakened, and even transferred to other characters such as Esther and Mr. Bucket. This shows that the identity of the omniscient voice is unstable and that Dickens does not intend his voice to be the sole center of meanings of the text. In short, these two narratives are the necessary partners in imagining and understanding the society in its wholeness. Alternating and sometimes intersecting each other throughout the novel, these opposing viewpoints make us see the contradictory multi-leveledness of the Victorian society. The equality of them implies Dickens' notion that more than single unified voice is needed to portray ideological conflicts of his age.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.625-649
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• 2011

Even though "An Outpost of Progress" and Heart of Darkness were based upon Joseph Conrad the sailor's same experience in Congo Free State, their narrative strategies are quite different. The realistic representation of "An Outpost of Progress," with which Conrad was not satisfied at all, was converted into the modernistic narrative strategy of Heart of Darkness so that the sympathetic power of the story should be improved. The conservative value system of realism is expressed by the omniscient author in "An Outpost of Progress," whereas the frame narrator of Heart of Darkness is proved to be an unreliable one whose norms and behavior are not in accordance with the implied author. The glorious history of the British Empire, which was proudly presented by the frame narrator at the beginning of Heart of Darkness, was strongly opposed by Marlow, another narrator, who said that the British Empire had been "one of the dark places of the earth" when ruled by the Roman Empire. The feeling of the frame narrator was uneasily changed into the gloomy mood when he described the Thames as the flow which "seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness" at the end of Heart of Darkness. Similar to the straightforward narrative strategy of representation in "An Outpost of Progress," the realistic approach of Part I in Heart of Darkness is considered by Conrad as insufficient to reveal the darkest truth of imperialism, which was declared by Kurtz as "The Horror! The Horror!" Thus Conrad uses the Chinese-box structure, in which Kurtz' episode is enveloped by Marlow's tale which is enclosed by the frame narrator's story, in order to penetrate into the mind of ordinary readers in the novelist's age of New Colonialism, while attacking the ideology itself of imperialism instead of critisizing its inefficiency and individualism.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제39권
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• pp.287-308
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• 2015

Biographical film is a genre narrativizing the actual person and history, and reproducing the character and history in a biographical film is in a dimension different from a film focused on a fiction. Discussion between these methods of narrative composition and image reproduction in a biographical film is also, in line with artistic/aesthetic problems and ethical/philosophical theses of the film text. This study discusses the phase of the way of reproduction of the actual person, $Xi{\bar{a}}o$ $H{\acute{o}}ng$ in the biographical film, The Golden Era and the time she lived in a biographical film and how the audience's discussion of the film and socio-cultural discourse differ depending on their attitude towards the cinematic introspection of the text. The narrative structure, the method of image reproduction and cinematic devices of the film, The Golden Era are completely off the point of the general format of the traditional biographical film. In The Golden Era, $Xi{\bar{a}}o$ $H{\acute{o}}ng$ and the history which she lived in did not revive depending on an omniscient subject's selective statement and meta-film structure. Ann Hui removed general, mythic images of $Xi{\bar{a}}o$ $H{\acute{o}}ng$ formed in the field of traditional Chinese culture and reproduced her through multilateral visions of a real, fictional narrator. Each spectator's judgment and interpretation of the film intervene in the multi-layered and sparse descriptions of the actual person's images and the era of the characters. Through this, it is possible to approach the uniqueness and authenticity a historical character, $Xi{\bar{a}}o$ $H{\acute{o}}ng$ and to have an opportunity of multi-layered reflection on how to secure a critical distance and make a perception in historical judgment.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제51권
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• pp.156-173
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• 2010

이 연구는 KBS에서 방영되었던 TV 역사다큐멘터리인 <역사스페셜>과 <한국사 전(傳)>을 대상으로 TV의 역사쓰기방식을 살펴보기 위해 이야기구조와 담화를 중심으로 서사분석하였다. 역사적 사실을 선택과 배제를 통하여 재구성하는 TV의 역사쓰기가 대중매체임에도 불구하고 기존의 지배적인 역사인식에 반하는 역사적 해석을 할 수 있는지 그 가능성을 짚어 보았다. 분석결과 두 프로그램 모두 지배적 이데올로기에 반하는 전복적인 역사쓰기에 한계를 드러냈다. 이야기구조에 있어서는 첫째, 여성의 역사를 쓰는데도 불구하고 남성의 영웅 서사 전개방식을 채택하였으며, 또한 공적 인물화하는 과정에서 개인으로서의 여성성을 없애고 탈개인화시키고 있다. 둘째, 두 여성에 대한 역사적 평가에 앞서 전제하고 있는 외모에 대한 평가가 남성적 시선에 의해 이루어지고 있으며, 셋째, 정치적인 여성 인물사를 이야기함에도 불구하고 사적인 남녀 간의 애정관계에 주목하고 있어 여성의 공적 인물화에 실패했다고 할 수 있다. 두 프로그램의 담화방식 역시 역사적 상상력을 주기보다는 다큐멘터리의 역사적 해석을 더욱 고정시키는 역할을 하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 스튜디오에서 실제의 모습으로 전지적 시각으로 역사를 전달하는 서술자는 담론적 위계구조에서 가장 상위에 위치하고 있는 의미 규정자였다. 영상의 경우 특히 <한국사 전(傳)>에서 부족한 영상을 메우기 위해 제작진의 상상력에 의해 만들어진 극화된 재연 장면에 의존하는 방식은 담화가 오히려 가부장적 서사를 고정시키는 역할을 함으로써 인물에 대한 전복적 해석의 가능성을 제한하고 있다.