• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.38
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• pp.245-264
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• 2015

In this paper, I suggest methodological ways of studying comparative literature regarding ongoing discussions of world and national literature. The role of comparative literature studies has widened in the contemporary era, in which nations have become rapidly entangled and the concept of the world as a unified entity is under question. In this regard, I critically review the traditional principles of the hospitality of cosmopolitanism and the exclusivity of the borders of national literatures. Further, I suggest that scholars adopt the concept by Sigmund Freud of "unfamiliar familiarity" as a methodological motive for studies of comparative literature. Based on this concept, scholars can further develop the unique methods of the discipline of comparative literary studies for teaching and research amidst the ongoing phenomenon of globalization. They can also use these methods to simultaneously contribute to solving the problem of "comparison without a unifying category of the world," as revealed by the results of deconstructional and postcolonial studies. Regarding community-based discussions of literature, I introduce the "bridge and door" metaphor, put forth by Georg Simmel, as a key concept in methodological consideration of translation and in comparative literary studies. In this paper, adopting the metaphor of the bridge and door as an intertextual and social model for comparative studies, I define the new role of comparative literary studies in literary transnationalism, which is particularly necessary when different languages and cultures overlap and become entangled. Regarding the rapidly changing contemporary world community, comparative literary studies, as an experimental discipline, is uniquely capable of examining this kind of community, which forms itself beyond and beneath individual nations.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.50
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• pp.347-370
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• 2018

This paper proposes a new direction for Comparative Literature which has been deeply Eurocentric and even colonial ever since its birth. 'Comparison' in Comparative Literature has been in fact the ideological mechanism for containing, classifying, and eventually controlling all differences in the world. Literature has naturally served as a national institution of the West at epistemological and discursive level with hidden adjective "comparative". To re-conceptualize the discipline and practice of "Comparative Literature", we need to revolutionize methodology itself based on Wai Chee Dimock's idea of "Weak Theory", Foucault's "disappearance of author", and Clifford Geertz's "thick description". "Thick description" as a methodology of comparative literature re-establishes the discipline as a field of "weak theory", defusing the centrality of linguistic identity and re-making it as a "long network" of loose and missed connections. "Thick description" poses the publicness of nation-state within "confusion of tongues", problematizes the legitimacy of modern knowledge, and puts (the western) nationalism in question. With this idea as a starting point, we can re-imagine Comparative Literature anew as a field of ceaseless discourse of longer, weaker, and thicker networks of interpretation and re-interpretation of differences.

• Sijohaknonchong
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.5-35
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• 2003

A usual approach of lyric poetry education emphasizes musicality of prosody that takes the format of singing lyric poem or reciting that involves reading with one's eyes and contemplating through one's consciousness, both with are quite remote from reality. In order to achieve an effective education, traditional lyric poetry education should focus on the recitation format that involves natural respiration. The current study specified theoretically the A study of contents in traditional Korean lyric poetry recitation. recitation. method through understanding rhythm and prosody that are basic principles of recitation. The study also attempted creating contents through three-dimentional image built on a theoretical foundation of systemic poetry recitation method in order to amplify the impression and creation of the traditional Korean lyric poetry. This was done as an effort to manifest an aesthetic nature of traditional lyric poetry and also as an effort to advance one more step in public understanding and appreciation of traditional poetry.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.59-77
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• 1997

Multicultural literature serves as a device for mutual understanding of different cultural. racial, and ethnic groups. This sort of literature is like a window through which a reader can see what other value systems are. It also helps minority children discover their own cultural past and develop a sense of belonging. The purpose of this study is to investigate the general characteristics of East Asian American characters in English language children's fiction and to highlight the differences among three groups : Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.332-339
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• 2007

이 논문은 21세기 세종계획 중 1998년부터 2007년까지 한민족언어정보화 분과 사업의 성과와 그 활용을 제시한 것이다. 이 사업에서는 국어 어문규정 검색 프로그램, 남북한 언어 비교사전, 한국 방언 검색 프로그램, 국어의 어휘 역사 검색 프로그램, 문학작품에 나타난 방언 검색 프로그램, 한국 전통문화 어휘 검색 프로그램, 남북한 정서법 변환 프로그램 등을 만들어 활용하였다. 국어 어휘와 관련된 정보화 작업을 시행하여, 국어를 다양하게 정보화하는 인력을 양성하고, 국어 어휘의 종합적 연구와 국어 발전에 크게 기여하였고, 국민들이 어문규정을 손쉽게 검색하여 국어생활에 큰 도움이 되도록 하였다. 특히 남북한 어휘 연구를 통하여 언어 통일 문제를 다루었고, 국어의 역사적 연구, 각 지역 방언 및 문학작품에 나타난 방언의 연구 및 이해에 큰 도움이 되도록 하였다.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.311-333
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of 'The Big Read(TBR)' reading initiatives sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) in the U.S.A. TBR was originally launched to improve the seriously low level of literary reading among the American adults reported in several NEA reports, and spread to more than 500 communities. The major characteristics of TBR include the following: First, a massive investment of federal funds as well as various private and corporate donations; Second, the strong recognition of libraries as the core of reading activities in communities; Third, the adoption of the model of 'One Book, One Community' reading promotion campaign; Fourth, the provision of high quality resources for reading activities.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.175-199
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• 2017

Children's literature has a significant impact on children's intelligence and emotional development. The interest in children's literature is increasingly growing with the expectation of the award winning books and the educational values of children's books. Although the interest has brought about a quantitative increase in the domestic children's books, it has difficulty selecting high-quality children's books among various books. In such an environment, the Children's Literature Award will provide an authoritative source of choice, which will help guide the selection of quality books to those who want to read children's books. In addition to this trend, the library should check the status of winning works and incorporate them into new collection development policies. The purpose of this study is to present the direction of the library book development policy of the public library. For this purpose, 10 public libraries in Seoul, Korea were selected and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively through the collection status of the children's literature winning books, loan status, turnover, Bonn's use Factor, and Trueswell's 80/20 rule. Based on the results of this analysis, we would like to suggest some issues to be reflected in library development policy of the future.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.296
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• pp.66-72
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• 2015

LH공사가 인천광역시 서창지구에 총 약 210만$m^2$ 규모, 1만4천여 가구, 약 5만여명이 거주하는 대규모 자족도시 단지를 조성하고 국민 공동주택을 공급하고 있다. 인천 서창지구는 인천의 대표적 주말 나들이 공원인 인천대공원이 근접해 있고 장아산, 거마산, 관모산, 장수천 등 산과 들, 습지(그린)와 바다(블루)로 둘러싸여 있으며, 시립미추홀도서관, 문학경기장, 문화예술회관, 길병원, 백화점, 인천터미널, 남동구청, 인천시청 등 풍부한 생활인프라와 함께 고속도로, 지하철 및 각종 도로가 결합된 멀티 교통망을 두루 갖춘 친환경 생태 해양 문화도시(Ecological & Culture Ocean City)이다. 해성산업개발(주)(대표 이연풍)는 서창2지구 중 1블럭 아파트 기계설비공사를 지난 해 10월 완공 후 3월 6일 입주 전까지 5개월간 최종 점검을 마쳤다. 이 현장은 LH공사가 주계약자 공동도급 시범사업으로 선정한 3개 현장 중 한곳으로 기계설비 건설업계의 관심이 집중된 곳이다. 본지는 입주 전 최종점검을 마친 현장에서 해성산업개발(주)(대표 이연풍) 안선준 기계 부장을 만나 시공 및 주계약자 공동도급에 대한 얘기를 들어보았다.

• Journal of Popular Narrative
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.9-44
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• 2020

This article aimed to looked back at the 1960s, which were assessed to be 'the age of essays', to survey denotations of essays, amplified by the discourse antagonism surrounding 'essays' and the writings of philosophers. Kim Hyeong Suk, Ahn Byeong Uk, and Kim Te Gil were philosophy professors of Yonsei University, Soongshil University, and Seoul National University and writers of numerous essay collections of the 1960s. However, there have been very few studies conducted on them. This is because of old prejudices within literary history that primarily undervalue essays and practices that try to limit them as 'Literariness'. Essays of the 1960s became the flavor of the times based on democratic demands that attempted to objectify individual experiences and grounds that passed through the war and the April 19 Revolution. The language of philosophers was expropriated through the various senses of first person writing to readers of the times, which lacked civil culture and national morality. Deficits in public spheres of the 1950s and 1960s were filled by Kim Hyeong Suk's narrations of comfort and conquest based on historic experiences, Ahn Byeong Uk's logic of self-discipline and knowledge based on democracy, and Kim Te Gil's humor and introspection that objectified the lives of the petit bourgeois. However, as the essays of philosophers failed to connect with the public discourse of the age, they were unable to go as far as sparking or serving as a medium for civil culture in the 1970s. Regardless, as essays rose historically in the 1960s, thought was given to the characteristics of the 'essay' genre and in connection, to the merits and demerits of cultural history that possesses the language of philosophers.

• (The)Study of the Eastern Classic
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• no.55
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• pp.115-145
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• 2014

In this paper, the transition of the status of Chinese novels and the change of the knowledge field in the modern times from the end of 19th century to the early 20th century, the transition period between the tradition and the modern times, have been investigated based on Liang Qichao's assertion of the Revolution of the Novel World. How the traditional novels have been evaluated, how modern novels enlightened a people and changed the political society, and what role novels acted in the change of the knowledge field are investigated. Especially I looked into the accumulations of knowledge and changes inside China which were overlooked in the previous researches which focused on the inflow of the Western culture and its impact on Chinese culture. Firstly the evaluation and classification of the traditional novels are considered. Because the transition of the status of novels and the classification method of the catalog of books are tightly coupled with the change of academic ideologies. Later I tried to understand novels as a way of thinking the modern times with a discussion on the changes of modern knowledge society and the consideration of Liang Qichao's Revolution of the Novel World in the two viewpoints, i.e. the relationship between novels and political society, and novels and the style of writing. Liang Qichao raised novels to the topmost position of literature. He pushed the traditional poetry off the top position and replaced it with popular novels. As the outside impact of Western culture made Chinese novels a tool for enlightening the ignorant people and the medium of propagating the knowledge, the status of novels was elevated to the highest level which novels had never reached in the past. With the limitation that the valuation was not based on the aesthetic appreciation of art but based on the value for politics and society, novel was a discourse of life and death to save the country and a container of knowledge to rebuild the people's mind and convert the crisis of the national ruin.