현대 독일어 문형연구 : Erben, Heringer, Grebe, Engel/Schumacher를 중심으로 Von Erben, Heringer, Grebe und Engel / Schumacher

민경숙 국민대학교 어문학연구소 1981 語文學論叢 Vol.1 No.-

<육지에 갇혀서>에 나타난 'Displacement(탈공간)'의 의미

민경숙 용인대학교 인문사회과학연구소 2001 인문사회논총 Vol.- No.7

『부바르와 페퀴셰』: 미완의 완성

민경숙 龍仁大學校 1997 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.14 No.-

Bouvard et pecuchet is the last novel that Flaubert began to write in 1872. He couldn't finish the novel before he died in 1880. But as he summarized the last part of the novel before his death, readers fond no problem to understand the complete story of the work. Critics normally call this novel 'novel of ideas,' because it treats many important subjects such as chemistry, physiology, religion, education, aethetics, literature, geology, farming etc. in which Flaubert was interested all his life. In France from the 18th century the power of science was getting bigger, while that of religion was setting smaller. Some intellectuals firmly believed that only science would bring the progress of society. So Flaubert is, above all, criticizing this kind of scientism through this work. Another importance this work has lies in the fact that Flaubert is satirizing the vulgarity of his contemporary society presenting two caricatured 'bonshommes'. These two heroes, simple official clerks, like to study sciences, and apply them to society. But their ideal spirits cannot harmonize with the vulgarity of the neighborhood, both the bourgeois and the low. As a result they are always doomed to fail in every attempt. Generally we, scholars who specialize in Flaubert, emphasize his artistic temperament studying his works. But when we read Bouvard et Pecuchet, we fond a big differnce between this work and the other works of Flaubert. In this work he is stressing the satire on society rather than searching for the artistic perfection. And he even seems to be satirizing his whole literary life when we take it into consideration that two heroes, Bouvard and Pecuchet, are Flaubert's other selves. In a word, it seems that Falubert laid bare his whole heart about literature, society, politics, life and especially his own literary life writing this last work. So we can conclude that although this work, Flaubert's posthumous novel, is an unfinished novel, it successfully completes Flaubert's literary life.

동양인의 눈으로 본 조셉 콘라드

민경숙 용인대학교 1998 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.15 No.-

『부바르와 페퀴셰』: 미완의 완성

민경숙 용인대학교 1997 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.14 No.-

플로베르의 작품에 재현된 동양

민경숙 용인대학교 1997 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.13 No.-

두 여성 과학자의 반란 - 과학과 젠더 : 이블린 팍스 켈러와 다나 해러웨이를 중심으로

민경숙 용인대학교 인문사회과학연구소 2002 인문사회논총 Vol.- No.8

60년간의 비평적 수용을 통해 본 도리스 레싱의 노벨상 수상의 의미

민경숙 龍仁大學校 2009 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.27 No.-

This paper traces the 60 years' history of Doris Lessing's critical reception chronologically, ranging from the nineteen fifties where she published her earliest works to 2008 when she declared her retirement. It is a significant study in that Lessing received the Nobel Prize in 2007 but people are still wondering why it occurred so late. This paper insists that the critics' belated view of the literary trend prevented Lessing from being recognized properly and timely. For example, in the nineteen seventies Lessing was experimenting a new genre, science fiction, while critics and scholars were demanding realist and feminist works like the Golden Notebook rejecting her experimentation. In the nineteen eighties Lessing who was disappointed at the critics' reception of her science fictions wrote realist fictions under the name of Jane Somers. But there were few critics or scholars who recognized them as Lessing's as she had expected. Obviously, this scandal made them feel uncomfortable and even bitter against her. Another reason Lessing had not been hailed so long is that she was always on the side of the weak, the alienated, the subaltern, or the minority. Even when she was naturalized and lived in the Great Britain, she criticized her capitalism and imperialism bitterly and defended communism and African natives. She of course never gave up complaining about women's insecure position. She was a rebel on every account. She was also a challenger, getting absorbed in 'anti-psychoanalysis' rather than formal psychoanalysis, experimenting new literary genres such as fantasy, science fiction, or fable and applying Sufism ideas to her works. She was famous for her 'contrarian' response because she always responded negatively to all interviewers' and readers' questions. It was told that she regarded even her sympathizers as enemies. But no one couldn't deny that she was a great sibyl who sees the larger truth and guides our way, incessantly warning us of incoming disasters. That's why the Norwegian Noble Committee decided to give her the Nobel Prize.

타협과 절충의 미학 : 제인 오스틴의 『엠마』 Jane Austen's Emma

민경숙 龍仁大學校 2004 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.22 No.-

The English society where Jane Austen belonged was suffering change from traditional and conservative way of thinking to dynamic and reactionary one. The Juvenilia, collection of Jane Austen's early pieces written just after the French Revolution, shows immoral, anarchic and revolting heroines, so different from those who appear later in her novels. But the French Revolution which the English people as well as the French believed to bring about new idealistic society seemed to be a failure, especially to the former, as it brought about the Reign of Terror instead of a new society. From 1790s the English people began to distance from French way of living, such as French politics, French philosophy, French culture, etc. So it is quite natural that they preferred anti-Jacobin novels to subversive novels from the end of the eighteenth century through the beginning of the nineteenth century. Emma, the greatest novel of Jane Austen, ends up with three weddings; Emma's, Jane's and Harriet's. This paper analyzes the novel by focusing on the stories of these three brides and reading their stories as a Bildungsroman, a gothic romance and a novel of social realism respectively . Especially in Emma more than the other novels, Jane Austen shows the readers that conservatism and liberalism were coexisting in the English society of the early nineteen century and some noticeable change was in progress, but that it must be hidden and couldn't be discussed openly. It seems that she advises that change should take time and proceed gradually. Many scholars and critics have different views about Emma : some consider it as a conservative and anti-Jacobin novel, while others as a reactionary novel. and whether it has subversive elements. This paper reads it as a way of compromise between these two movies.

『시카스타: 식민화된 제5행성에 관하여』 : 도리스 레싱의 ‘실낙원과’ ‘복낙원’

민경숙 龍仁大學校 2009 용인대학교 논문집 Vol.27 No.-

Doris Lessing's science fiction series Canopus in Argos is another experiment she conducted proving her untiring challenging spirit. But there were not a few skeptical critics and scholars doubting whether they can be regarded as authentic science fictions. This paper examines the complicated contents and the novel form of the first work of the science fiction series, Re:Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta, and judges whether it is a science fiction or not. This work is based on Lessing's cosmology that there are other alien beings in the universe, the Earth and the humanity are only a minuscule part in the space, and the fates of the Earth and the humanity are subject to any change in the spatial order. This is the basic novum of the work. Another novum of the work is that the narrator is an alien agent working for Canopus and tells Canopeans and implied readers about the history of Shikasta, a colonized planet, which can be considered the Earth. In other words, the narrator re-tells us in an alien's point of view how the humanity evolved from monkeys and lost their paradise, demythologizing the myths of genesis and the fall of Adam and fusing creationism with evolutionism. Therefore, when we apply Darko Suvin's famous definition of science fiction, 'recognitive estrangement,' to this work, we can clearly see that it is an authentic science fiction. Besides, as this work re-tells the history of the Earth, presenting an alternate history, a sub-genre of science fiction, it can efficiently and objectively show what the hardship and chaos the humanity undergoes today stem from and how they can be overcome. Lessing once told that her science fictions are utopian novels, another sub-genre of science fiction, such as Utopia and The Republic. The latter half of Shikasta is narrated by humans who suffer from the Third World War and regain the lost paradise. But the utopia Lessing described is not a stable and authoritative utopia obliging a certain institution or a certain doctrine such as Thomas More's or Platon's, but an evolving utopia, or 'eutopia', a better world.