영어권 문화연구소 2012 봄 정기 학술대회

동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2012 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 학술대회 발표집 Vol.1 No.1

일시: 2012년 4월 14일(토) 장소: 동국대학교 다향관 세미나실 주제: 연극과 정치성

『인간의 오점』에 나타난 정화의 의미

현재연 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2017 영어권문화연구 Vol.10 No.3

The Human Stain by Philip Roth begins with the conversation between Oedipus in Oedipus the King and Creon. Oedipus is the cause of the plague that afflicts the city of Thebes. His inadvertent murder of a man, who was his father Laius, is the reason for the pestilence. After wandering around the land with his daughter, Oedipus suffers a miserable death which then purifies the city of Thebes. Setting the novel in 1998, at the time of the presidential sex scandal, Roth compares and contrasts the Puritanism of the prejudiced American politicians with narrow-mindedness and self-righteousness of the faculty at Athena college. Congress enacted the astringent rituals of purification by charging president Clinton of adultery and perjury, but even didn't make America safe and cozy enough to watch TV with ten-year-old daughter. Coleman Silk, the protagonist of the novel, is a classics professor who teaches Greek literature at Athena College. He is denounced as a racist for inadvertently calling two absent students “spooks” and is forced to retire. The crisis kills his wife Iris, causing him to lead a lonely life. Finally he dies along side the woman in love, Faunia Farley. His death, to my regret, contributes almost nothing to purity the conformities of Athena College and the city, in contrast to the purification brought by Oedipus's death. The Human Stain, criticizes the American persecuting spirit through Oedipus, Coleman and Clinton. Roth compares this spirit to the germs of disease that exert a fatal influence upon human life. He seems to maintain that the human stain is an attribute, an inherent property of humankind, not easily removed. Most likely he believes that a blind belief in the purity of human nature is nothing but a sweet illusion, a manifestation of folly.

Whitman’s American Experience and Democracy and Divine Literatus in Democratic Vistas

( Suh¸ Yun Kyo ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2018 영어권문화연구 Vol.11 No.1

Whitman gave a new order in the political turmoil and division of US society and continued to reflect on the realistic foundation with the utopian interest, such as the analysis of the self and the morality to be equipped to achieve the ideal of democracy ideally. His work Democratic Vistas is basically a reflection of ideal ideals and a new search. After experiencing the Civil War as opposed to ideological early design work, he presents ideas and cultural programs that he urgently needs to turn the United States into a new nation and turn the public into a new humanoid type. In this work he presents the three stages of the present America as an ideal nation, in its own terms the New World. According to him, 1. the establishment of a ‘political foundation’ 2. the realization of material prosperity 3. the gradual rise of religious democracy. Divine Literature to him was not only his concrete solution for American democracy but America's final hope for enacting communication between Body and Soul. He emphasizes Personalism as the basic principle of democracy. In addition, human beings and gods are one person, discovering the identity of God and humanity through human beings, and such assertion asserts consciousness of divine reality.

엔트로피에서 맥스웰의 도깨비로 : 토마스 핀천의 『제49호 품목의 경매』 속 닫힌 세계로서의 미국과 실존적 탈주 가능성 연구

김대중 ( Kim¸ Dae-joong ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2017 영어권문화연구 Vol.10 No.1

This paper aims to find the meaning of closed society and possibility of Oedipa's existential escape in The Crying of Lot49 written by Thomas Pynchon. This paper first delves into factors of ‘Americaness’ as Pierce's inheritance―the military-industrial complex, cultural cynicism, media-dominating culture that dominated 1960s' America with the theoretical scaffoldings such as Jean Baudrillard's theories especially focusing on his ideas of simulation and hyperreality as the cultural illusion. This paper then traces Oedipa's quest to find a way to resist America as closed society where entropy becomes a dominant metaphor of its catastrophe through prying into Tristero which aims to insidiously rebel against totalitarian control of hegemonic Americaness. Yet Oedipa gets frustrated after finding out that Tristero is in fact a hidden apparatus of Pierce's inheritance. But Oedipa finally arrives at a third way to overcome nihilism brought about by her frustration by being awaken up to her own consciousness as outsider and finding meanings of existential choice and communication. This paper suggests that the opening ending of the novel can trigger bigger questions about the existential realm of humanity that the novel is seeking.

『아낌없이 주는 두올리티』와 『영점에 선 여자』를 통해 본 제3세계 여성의 페미니즘 연구

차영옥 ( Cha¸ Young-ok ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2011 영어권문화연구 Vol.4 No.1

This paper explores the possibility of finding intersections of commonness and differences between Nawal al-Sadawi who is a prominent Egyption writer, Woman at Point Zero and Mahasweta Devi who is Indian writer in postcolonial period, Douloti the Bountiful. In Woman at Point Zero, the heroine as a prostitute is a model of Arab women who are oppressed and exploited by the male authority, driven to despair. The heroine's anger and disgust toward men extend to society which keeps the patriarchal values. She tries to obtain freedom and to converse the power relations by controlling her body. The act of killing one of men constitutes the climax of her struggle to gain control over herself. In Douloti the Bountiful, Douloti, the story of a tribal woman sold into bonded labor as a prostitute to a wealthy landowner, also relies on a central metaphor: as the tubercular Douloti collapses dead on the way to a hospital. She happens to fall on a concrete map of India, into which the Indian flag will be planted in celebration of Independence Day. Unlike women in developed countries, women of the third world have been suffering from patriarchal system. Also they are suffering from double torture of lower class and the patriarchal society. These works are similar in terms of facing death by sacrificing their lives in the world of men's power aside from commonness that the main character in this work is the prostitute of the third world like India and Egypt. However, these two works appear to describe the inner-self of the individual prostitute, but these works tell us the power of the male who is in authority among huge social groups that is existing behind that.

앤 섹스턴의 몸의 시학 : 여성의 아브젝트 몸의 전복과 재주체화

임은하 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2022 영어권문화연구 Vol.15 No.2

This article attempts to analyze representations of women's body in the Anne Sexton's poetry, focusing on Julia Kristeva's concept of “abject”. According to Kristeva, Abjection, a process of unconsciously separating, excluding, and removing something in the process of forming a subjectivity, occurs. Kristeva calls this removed one “Abject”. Abject is conventionally considered filthy and terrifying because it is threatening the existing social order, system, and identity. Anne Sexton puts women's abject body in the foreground of the poems. In a male patriarchal society, representation of the female body has been hidden and ruled out because it is considered shameful and filthy. By representing these women's bodies in poetry, Sexton subverts the women's abject body from hidden to visible and objectifiable one. These subversive attempts require a process of newly accepting and analyzing the women body as an object. In this process, women deviate from the social norm of being women, shaking the essence of gender. The women's abject body becomes the open body which is Subject in Process, and here we can find the possibility of re- subjectivization. The women's open body makes multiple subjectivities possible. Furthermore, Sexton develops these women's open bodies, the abject bodies, into a place of solidarity that embraces all other women's abject bodies. It becomes a new linguistic place to talk about various women's subjectivity through the women's abject body.

예이츠의 사랑시에 대한 문학치료적 접근 : 시 쓰기를 통한 실연의 극복

유건상 ( Yu¸ Keon Sang ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2012 영어권문화연구 Vol.5 No.2

This paper is an attempt to understand W. B. Yeats's love poems for Maud Gonne from the viewpoint of poetry therapy. It's because in his love poems, the process of the acceptance and recovery from the grief of lost love coincides with the principles of the poetry therapy. Poetry therapy gives chances of self-examination to those who suffer from mental crisis by making them read and write poetry and then let them newly recognize others and their world, and cope with the changes of the life. The first part of this paper introduces the history, goal, and principles of the poetry therapy. The main parts of the paper survey how Yeats's relationship with Gonne began and continued, and analyze his love poems selected from his early and later poetry in relation to the purpose of this study. At first, he portrays her as an ideal beauty like goddesses. He does not understand her way of life entirely and even blames her because of his being rejected. But gradually, she becomes more objectified in his later poetry. He realizes their differences between temperamental and political opinions, accepts the lost love, and praises her spirit of sacrifice and patriotism. That is to say, he recovers from the grief by writing poems and becomes more perceptive than before. In this sense, Yeats's love poems deal with the growth of the self that is the very aim of poetry therapy.

사물과 정동 연구 : 『딕테』와 촛불집회를 중심으로

김대중 ( Kim¸ Dae-joong ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2018 영어권문화연구 Vol.11 No.1

This paper aims to explore contextual meaning of thing and affect and how these are expressed in differential areas such as literary works, ethics, and politics by analyzing Theresa Cha Hak-Kyung's Dictee and recent candle demonstration in Korea. As theoretical scaffoldings, the paper employs Spinoza's theory of affect in Ethica and Gilles Deleuze's adaptation of it as well as such ideas as multitude proposed by Antonio Negri and Michael Hart. The paper first of all delineates genealogy of philosophical inquiries on thing and affect then shifts its focus to Gilles Deleuze's preeminent explanation of affect and affection. These theoretical overviews assist readers to understand this paper's analysis of images in Cha's avant-garde masterpiece, Dictee. The paper mostly delve into series of images and their affect in Dictee: the first series of images of Korean women's faces and affect of joy, the second series of images of Western female martyrs and affect of sadness, the third series of images of multitude and their affect, the fourth series of images of things and thing-affect. In the last part of the paper, I examine political meaning of affect and multitude as well as its power in contemporary society, especially recent candle demonstrations in Korea.

폭력과 유토피아: 근대와 반근대의 문학적 이념

최진석 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2022 영어권문화연구 Vol.15 No.2

In general, ‘Utopia’ has been regarded as a trans-historical place to refer to an idealized paradise. However, at the same time, it has been considered an ideal space that must be planned indispensable to dream of a ‘New community,’ and activated through political and social contexts. For example, Thomas More's Utopia, Tommaso Campanella's City of Sun, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis etc. are the various visions of a literary utopia on the one hand, while a revolutionary utopia on the other. However, the outlook for the ‘New community’ in these Utopian models was constructed and limited through the conditions of the Modern state and society. If the Utopia since More has a characteristic of Modernity, despite its idealistic nature, it will also include problems related to the Modern state and society. For instance, the organization of labor for wealth reproduction, control and reproduction of population through individuals and families, and the organization and reproduction of knowledge for the maintenance and survival of the community were the most important aspects of Modern Statism and were originally included in Modern utopian project. The structural link between Statism and violence is one of the most important issues that continues to this era. Therefore, the fact that the utopian idea implied its connection from the beginning is a major focus in understanding the post-modern world. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the inherent connection between Modern Utopia, Statism, and violence, and where the starting point for new thinking beyond it is.

들뢰즈의 사건과 야크나파타우파

김종갑 ( Kim¸ Jong-gahp ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2011 영어권문화연구 Vol.4 No.1

Deleuze is known for the philosopher of “event.” In Logic of Sense, he created the concept of event as a reverse of Platonic dichotomy. For Plato, event, or simulacrum, being at the farthest end of Idea, was so meaningless and transitory that it was oppressed for protecting Idea. Based on Stoa’s definition of thing, Deleuz’s event was realized not by a similarity between Idea and copy but effects between things, called metaphysical surface. Deleuze’s event was especially important on understanding of the meaning of literary works. Because the final result of event was a signification of event, it was necessarily expressed by a language. In terms of Deleuze’s event, Faulkner’s Yoknapatawhpa was not a space of representation, but a space created through ‘a bloc of sensations’ in American South. In other word, Faulkner did not represent the real people, accidents, and things, but create the imaginative space in the real South. In this sense, the most importance things in Faulkner’s texts were of expressions on the various aspects of affects in the reponses between white American and Afro-American and their percepts on the reactions to things. Such affects and percepts created a large view of Yoknapatawhpa ruled by racial, social, and moral entities.