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From Jane Eyre to Eliza Doolittle: Women as Teachers

  • Noh, Aegyung
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제64권4호
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    • pp.565-584
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    • 2018
  • The pedagogical dynamic dramatized in Shaw's Pygmalion, which sets man as a distinct pedagogical authority and woman his subject spawning similarly patterned plays many decades later, has been relatively overlooked in the play's criticism clouded by its predominantly mythical theme. Shaw stages Eliza's pedagogical subordination to Higgins followed by her Nora-esque exit with the declaration, "I'll go and be a teacher." The central premise of this article is that the pioneering modern playwright and feminist's pedagogical rewriting of A Doll's House sets out a historical dialogue between Eliza, a new woman who repositions herself as a teacher renouncing her earlier subordinate pedagogical position that is culturally ascribed to women while threatening to replace her paternal teacher, and her immediate precursors, that is, Victorian women teachers whose professional career was socially "anathematized." Through a historical probe into the social status of Victorian women teachers, the article attempts to align their abortive career with Eliza's new womanly re-appropriation of the profession of teaching. With Pygmalion as the starting point of its query, this article conducts a historical survey on the literary representation of pedagogical women from the mid to late Victorian era to the turn of the century. Reading a wide selection of novels and plays alongside of Pygmalion (1912), such as Jane Eyre (1847), A Doll's House (1879), An Enemy of the People (1882), The Odd Women (1893), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), it contextualizes Eliza's resolution to be a teacher within the history of female pedagogy. This historical contextualization of the career choice of one of the earliest new women characters in modern drama helps appraise the historical significance of such choice.

王若虚的詩論探究(왕약허의 시론 탐구) - 以《滹南遺老集》中的《詩話》三卷爲主(『호남유로집』 중 「시화」 3권을 중심으로) - (Quest of Wang Yak-heo(王若虚)'s Theories of Poetry - With a focus on Three Volumes of 「Talks on Chinses Poetry」 among "the Collected Writings of Wang Yak-heo"(滹南遺老集))

  • 장영기
    • 동양고전연구
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    • 제34호
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    • pp.207-224
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    • 2009
  • 본 연구는 금대 문학 비평가인 왕약허의 시론에 대한 탐구이다. 왕약허는 ${\ll}$호남유로집${\gg}$이라는 대표 저작을 남겼는데, 본고는 그 가운데 ${\ll}$시화${\gg}$ 3권에 나타난 시학이론을 고찰한 것이다. 특히, 시론 원리, 창작 기술, 실제 비평 등 호남시화의 장단점에 대하여 살펴보았다. 왕약허는 중국문학사상에서는 저명한 인물은 아니지만, 그의 비평이론과 시화 가운데 비평이론은 톡특한 견해를 지니고 있다. 왕약허의 시론은 무엇보다도 자연, 의미, 진리, 내용을 중요하게 여겼다. 그는 현실주의적 문학관을 드러내는데, 두보 소식 황정견이 어떻게 다른지 분석하였고, 두보 백거이 소식의 현실주의 시를 높이 평가하였다. 또한 그는 형식주의에 반대하였으나 시가의 형식을 경시하지는 않았다. 그의 시화 비평은 소식과 백거이 등의 작품을 높이 평했으나 비판 또한 서슴치 않았고, 자신만의 독특한 비평 기준을 정하여 다른 사람의 의견을 맹목적으로 받아들이지 않았으며, 자신이 생각하는 바와 다른 점을 제기하였다. 특히 자구의 수식과 문법, 전체 문맥이 잘 조화를 이루는지를 중요시하였다. 그러나 왕약허의 시론은 합리성을 지나치게 중시한 나머지 글자마다 세세하게 분석하여 시가 드러내고자 하는 정취를 간파하지 못하는 경우도 있다. 자구에 지나치게 얽매여 시가 주는 본연의 감정과 상상의 즐거움을 깨우치지 못하고 결국 시인의 시상에 까지 악영향을 끼쳤다.

원말명초(元末明初) 문학 동향 및 송렴(宋濂) 문학관의 변화 (The change of Song lian's viewpoint of Literature and The Literary trend in the Late Yuan and the Early Ming dynasty)

  • 박경남
    • 동양고전연구
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    • 제62호
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    • pp.67-85
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    • 2016
  • 본고는 원말명초(元末明初) 문학의 전개과정을 검토하면서 명대(明代) 초기 관각문학의 기틀을 다졌던 송렴(宋濂) 문학의 위치를 점검해 보았다. 그는 명대 문학사에서 도학자적 문학관을 견지했던 것으로 단순 요약되고 있지만, 그 과정은 그리 간단하지 않다. 본고는 문학론과 관련된 송렴의 글을 연대기적으로 분석함을 통해 그가 청 장년기까지도 진한고문(秦漢古文) 등의 고문사(古文辭)에 빠져 오랫동안 헤어 나오지 못했음을 밝힐 수 있었다. 송렴은 삼십 세에 스승 황진(黃?)과의 만남을 계기로 육경에 침잠하며 도학적 문예관을 가지게 되었지만 고문사의 유혹을 완전히 떨쳐버리지는 못했다. 오십 이후 주원장(朱元璋)을 도와 명 건국의 주역으로 참여하게 되면서 비로소 자신의 경세적 문학관을 실천적으로 확립하였고, 이후 자신의 도학적-경세적 문학관을 이론적으로 정립할 수 있었다. 그리고 이 과정은 또한 청 장년기 그 자신의 문학 수련의 주요한 대상이자 명초의 가장 중요한 문학적 전범이기도 하였던, "사기" 등의 진한고문을 부정하는 과정이기도 하였다. 요약하면, 원말명초의 격동의 시기에 송렴은 개인적, 시대적으로 문학관의 변화를 겪으며, 그 생애 말년에 육경 및 송대의 도학자와 한유(韓愈) 구양수(歐陽脩) 등의 당송고문을 성인(聖人)의 문(文)으로 통하는 치세의 문학으로 재정립함으로써 명대 문학의 이념적 좌표와 새로운 문학적 전범을 제시하고 있었던 것이다.

환경과 의식의 재조정을 통한 생명지속성의 비전 -카렌 헤세의 『모래폭풍을 지나며』 (The Vision of Sustainability through the Readjustment of Environment and Consciousness: Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust)

  • 이정희
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제56권2호
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    • pp.383-408
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    • 2010
  • This paper intends to suggest the positive, ecological vision of sustainability in Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust that Billie Jo Kelby recovers herself through her readjustment of interior consciousness and outer environment in her tragic situations caused by the Dust Bowl. In spite of her desires for happiness and affluence of home, she loses her mother and brother, and her musical talent as a pianist, and lies in self-abandonment. But she finally raises up herself with her courage and patience, reconciliating with the nature and ameliorating the community by taking care of the devastated landscapes. Hence it is appropriate to approach the loss-recovery process of nature and consciousness with ecological solutions, The Dust Bowl breaks down human mind and body, and eventually leads to the situations of despairs and death. Hesse proposes the primary solution that humans should reconstruct their interior consciousness and participate in recovering the nature because humans are inevitably linked with nature. In this novel, the nature takes a dynamic and active role as a catalyst, reconciling the self with other humans and settling with the conflicting situations in history and culture. This verse novel as an active, self-ordering, and corrective process gives the more intense ecological message. As Hesse defines the setting of Dirty Thirties as a channel of energy, she creates the utmost effects of ecological process that human and environment are part of a total situation, representing the transactional formulation, each conditioned by conditioning to the other. Therefore Billie Jo takes her part as an interpreter and actualizes herself, understanding the nature with metaphor and symbol. Eventually Billie Jo realizes that she should rebuild her environment not out of the dust but in the dust, accepting the reality of Dust Bowl.

계몽주의 담론의 이율배반과 '소설의 발생' (The Antinomy of the Enlightenment Discourses and the Rise of the Novel)

  • 김봉률
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제54권1호
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    • pp.3-29
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    • 2008
  • Ian Watt, author of The Rise of the Novel, maintained that the novel originated in modern England, came from prose discourses such as the news, political essays and journalistic writing which propagated the Enlightenment, and the novels represent formal realism. The main point of this paper is to examine Watt's theory of the rise of the novel on the basis of the criticism of antinomy of the Enlightenment and "the public sphere" in Habermas' terms. At first, I will criticize formal realism, which is not a new literary species, but a formally renovated realistic form that represented capitalism and protestantism. And, then, I will show that formal realism is a kind of antinomy because it turned away from the voices and reality of the low-class and women though the novel concentrated on common people, not the aristocrats. Secondly, I will inquire into the antinomy of the Enlightenment in the aspects of reason, freedom, individualism and women. In my view, as soon as the high-middle class acquired their political rights, these values were no more encouraged and the result revealed antinomy of the Enlightenment more explicitly. Thirdly, I'd argue that "the public sphere" had positive meanings to everyone when the bourgeosie were fighting against the Absolutism and the aristocracy. I'll also insist that the high-middle class and the intellectuals were in "the public sphere" in which Habermas argues that rationality and equality were thought to have been realized, while the low-middle class and most women were de-enlightened and disciplined by reading the novel privately. In conclusion, formal realism is not the rise of the novel, but the opening of the novel peculiar to bourgeosie parliamentarism from the middle-eighteenth century to the middle-twentieth century.

Haunting the London Streets: Virginia Woolf's Urban Travelogues Re-appraised

  • Choi, Young Sun
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제55권3호
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    • pp.415-427
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    • 2009
  • Woolf s preoccupation with the interplay between gender, commercialism, and the modern city is exposed in higher relief by her feminist remapping of the city through a discourse of fl nerie, which is epitomized in her singular urban travelogues such as Street Haunting and The London Scene essays. A fanatical London-adventurer herself, she assumes the persona of the fl neuse in exploring the street of modern London and especially the public sphere of the marketplace, as represented in Oxford Street Tide. Living and working in the quarter of Bloomsbury, in close proximity to the capital s famous sites of tourism, entertainment, and mass consumption, Woolf was placed at the heart of urban spectacle. In spite of the lack of critical analysis of this high-profile writer s interest in such quotidian matters as shopping, fashion and appearance, which would be informed by a hierarchy of value within literary criticism, it seems that they are inextricably intertwined with her quest into more serious-minded topics that revolve around the twin pillars of her literary project: feminism and modernism. Her essays, in particular, suggest this point in one way or another, mirroring her extraordinary susceptibility to such concerns. For Woolf, street sauntering is synonymous with an act of creative mobility, by which she plays with the notion of shifting identities, rediscovers the urban rarities and splendors, and ultimately pins them down in her literary output. By adopting the identity of a masterly rambler/observer/explorer with an omnipotent gaze, she firmly anchors herself as an active interpreter of urban modernity and viewer of its spectacle. She thus challenges the idea of public space as a male domain, which is central to the classic androcentric discourse of loitering, spectatorship and urban modernity.

문화, 제국, 민족 -비판적 전유를 위한 에드워드 사이드의 『문화와 제국주의』 읽기 (Culture, Empire, and Nation: A Critical Appropriation of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism)

  • 고부응
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제58권5호
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    • pp.903-941
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    • 2012
  • This essay examines Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism focusing on the concepts of 'culture,' 'empire,' and 'nation'. The approach is critical, theoretical, and historical rather than explicatory. Consequently, the range of the essay is not limited to Said's own explanation and argument about Western imperialism and its culture presented in the book. In doing this, this essay finally purposes to be a discursive resistance to the current global empire, the United States, via a critical reading of Said's work. Said's notion of culture is set upon to disclose the function of culture as an apparatus of ideological consent of the dominated to the dominant. When applied to imperial practice, Western culture functions to subject the colonized to the colonizer. Said's geographical approach to imperialism complements the historical understanding of imperialism. Imperialism is not only the practice of Western-centered historicism but also the spatially mutual interaction between the West and the rest of the world. Along with European imperialism, Said poses the current global empire of the United States as his main target of criticism. Said's problem is that he takes the United States as a nation-state. When examined, the United States is not a nation-state, but today's empire. The empire in the appearance of the nation-state United States does not work for the interest of the American nation, that is, the American people. The empire is the transnational and postnational political and economic institution that works for the interest of global capital. In order to resist the current global empire, this essay suggests that the building or restoration of nation-states with its basic principle of people's sovereignty is in need.

문학텍스트와 문학적 해석 -「스페인 문학사」를 통한 모델 연구 (Literary Text and the Cultural Interpretation - A Study of the Model of 「History of Spanish Literature」)

  • 나송주
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제26권
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    • pp.465-485
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    • 2012
  • Instructing "History of Spanish Literature" class faces various types of limits and obstacles, just as other foreign language literature history classes do. Majority of students enter the university without having any previous spanish learning experience, which means, for them, even the interpretation of the text itself can be difficult. Moreover, the fact that "History of Spanish Literature" is traced all the way back to the Middle Age, students encounter even more difficulties and find factors that make them feel the class is not interesting. To list several, such factors include the embarrassment felt by the students, antiquated expressions, literature texts filled with deliberately broken grammars, explanations written in pretentious vocabularies, disorderly introduction of many different literary works that ignores the big picture, in which in return, reduces academic interest in students, and finally general lack of interest in literate itself due to the fact that the following generation is used to visual media. Although recognizing such problem that causes the distortion of the value of our lives and literature is a very imminent problem, there has not even been a primary discussion on such matter. Thus, the problem of what to teach in "History of Spanish Literature" class remains unsolved so far. Such problem includes wether to teach the history of authors and literature works, or the chronology of the text, the correlations, and what style of writing to teach first among many, and how to teach to read with criticism, and how to effectively utilize the limited class time to teach. However, unfortunately, there has not been any sorts of discussion among the insructors. I, as well, am not so proud of myself either when I question myself of how little and insufficiently did I contemplate about such problems. Living in the era so called the visual media era or the crisis of humanity studies, now there is a strong need to bring some change in the education of literature history. To suggest a solution to make such necessary change, I recommended to incorporate the visual media, the culture or custom that students are accustomed to, to the class. This solution is not only an attempt to introduce various fields to students, superseding the mere literature reserch area, but also the result that reflects the voice of students who come from a different cultural background and generation. Thus, what not to forget is that the bottom line of adopting a new teaching method is to increase the class participation of students and broaden the horizon of the Spanish literature. However, the ultimate goal of "History of Spanish Literature" class is the contemplation about humanity, not the progress in linguistic ability. Similarly, the ultimate goal of university education is to train students to become a successful member of the society. To achieve such goal, cultural approach to the literature text helps not only Spanish learning but also pragmatic education. Moreover, it helps to go beyond of what a mere functional person does. However, despite such optimistic expectations, foreign literature class has to face limits of eclecticism. As for the solution, as mentioned above, the method of teaching that mainly incorporates cultural text is a approach that fulfills the students with sensibility who live in the visual era. Second, it is a three-dimensional and sensible approach for the visual era, not an annotation that searches for any ambiguous vocabularies or metaphors. Third, it is the method that reduces the burdensome amount of reading. Fourth, it triggers interest in students including philosophical, sociocultural, and political ones. Such experience is expected to stimulate the intellectual curiosity in students and moreover motivates them to continues their study in graduate school, because it itself can be an interesting area of study.

Jean Paul Gaultier 작품에 나타난 외적 해체경향 (The External Deconstruction Trend Expressed in the Works of Jean Paul Gaultier)

  • 최영옥
    • 한국의류산업학회지
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    • 제4권4호
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    • pp.327-338
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    • 2002
  • The analysis and examination of this study are focussed on the external deconstruction trend expressed in the works of Jean Paul Gaultier. The external deconstruction is a way of expression faithful to the literal meaning of 'deconstruction' and is the applied case of exposure, destruction, poverty, and decomposition as they are. The method and scope of this study are from 1980's to present, and the followings are the results of this examination focussed on the various literature of philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, and the domestic and foreign fashion journals. The exposure phenomena through the deconstruction expressed repeatedly in the works of Gaultier deconstructed the fixed idea of 'the inner wear should be worn inside the outer wear' and at the same time denied the dichotomical interpretation of the exposure and suppression, the traditional beauty and decadent beauty, the chastity and unchastity, the asceticism and sexuality, and obscured the notion of the inner wear and outer wear. The destructive deconstruction expressed in the works of Jean Paul Gaultier introduced the elements such as hippy, punk, and kitsch, slashed before making dresses, crumpled unseemly like wastepaper, or made dresses with textures like paper scraps, and through destroying textures, yielded shock effects and tension. Poverty, through borrowing from the outwardly poor-looking elements of design, i.e. the patch work, decolor, dye, fading, fringing, incompletion, and handmadeness, liberated dresses and their ornaments from the outside. The traditional dresses were dresses having certain forms with formative beauty, but Gaultier disassembled dresses and raised questions about the logic of dresses themselves.

서양(西洋)의 머리형태(形態)에 표현(表現)된 Post-modernism에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) (A Research on Post-Modernism Expressed on Western Hair Styles)

  • 안현경
    • 패션비즈니스
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is research on the characteristics of post-modernism expressed on western hair styles in the late 20th century. Therefore this thesis analyzed the relationship of modernism & the hair styles of that mage and post-modernism & the hair styles of that mage. That will re-illuminate the same beauty worth of same age as to accurate the concept of post-modernism & the hair styles of that mage. And the last, criticizing the post-modernism design and that hair design, helping to find new trends. The method of this study was the literature research & analysis of visual materials focus on upper bust image that can know the relationship of modernism & the hair styles of that mage, and post-modernism & the hair styles of that mage. First, the literature research is composed of analysis of theses, magazines on art, clothing and cosmetology having the contents of 20th century western culture, art and hair styles. Second, the analysis of visual materials is composed of analysis of video films, slide films and photographs of books, magazines, and internet home-pages. Modern western hair styles, appeared after 1910's, is represented as a short cut & permanent wave. That express experimentalism, functionalism, and purism, that is same as the other art's trend of same age. Post-modern western hair styles, appeared after 1960's, also show the same trend with same age's. This summarized & characterized 8 categories; historical method, pluralism, negotiation, escape from the formality, recovery of humanity, ornament, connection with race, metaphor & symbolism. But post-modernism concentrating pluralism makes easy making low quality art and absence of criticism, so this thesis criticised it 5 categories; absence of ideas, absence of the social sense of responsibility, lost of one's characteristics, decline of skills, decline of worth of usages.