• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1111-1130
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• 2011

Reading postmodern texts certainly situates readers in roles different from the ones we have been used to. Recently, postmodern metafiction forms a significant body of children's literature that is intended to challenge and transform the conventions of books in the digital age. While many studies have been done as to how child readers have capabilities to appreciate and interpret postmodern metafiction picture books, few studies on teachers and preservice teachers' reactions are not readily available. The role of teachers and preservice teachers are crucial for child readers to have access to affluent reading resources. This study discusses how preservice teachers read and respond to postmodern metafiction picture books using a deconstructive approach by means of binary opposites. Data was collected with 14 preservice teachers as to their likes/dislikes, reading levels, and reading paths about postmodern metafiction picture books. Expected pedagogical implications for literacy and language education were requested to address in their reading diaries and response papers. With their likes/ dislikes, since binary opposites always imply the hierarchy of power and value, the likes is apparently more valued and appreciated over their dislikes. This differentiated values are discussed in more detail with three recurring themes-Education, Morals and Behavior, and Tradition. With reading levels, there seems to be a gap existing between the authors' implied reader and literary critics' and the preservice teachers' ideal readers for the postmodern metafiction picture books. Although many studies have already revealed young readers' capability of appreciating postmodern metafiction, it depends a lot more on the teachers and preservice teachers whether children's right to have access to affluent literacy resources is respected or not. Preservice teachers' awareness of the potential of postmodern metafiction will work as an initial step to bring and realize the new reading path and new literacies in classrooms. By challenging metanarratives of children's literature, preservice teachers' readings of postmodern picture books reveals potentials to raise different reading paths and develop new literacies and other educational implications.

• 이베로아메리카
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2020

칠레 작가 호세 도노소의 소설 『시골 저택』은 불확실하고 모호한 작품이다. 한편으로는 정치적 알레고리라는 성격을 지니고 있으며, 다른 한편으로는 메타픽션이라는 성격을 지니고 있기 때문이다. 일차적으로 『시골 저택』은 1973년 피노체트의 군부 쿠데타에 대한 알레고리로 읽을 수 있다. 그러나 이런 읽기는 작품을 지나치게 단순하게 이해하는 것이다. 실제로는 칠레 현대사를 넘어서 중남미 역사에서 일어난 변혁과 좌절의 연대기에 대한 문학적 초상화이다. 메타픽션으로서 『시골 저택』은 이런 문학적 초상화의 담론적 성격을 드러내고, 작품 바깥에 엄연히 존재하는 현실을 환기하고자 한다. 이로써 도노소는 암울한 현실의 비일상적인 성격, 한시적인 성격, 허구적인 성격을 드러내고자 한다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.301-328
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• 2010

Many recent British novels engage with the construction and deconstruction of history and identity; and in dealing with these historical, or historicised novels it seems to be an untouchable ground that truth is beyond grasp. Even when approached, its authenticity should be examined under the post-modern "incredulity toward metanarrative" discourses. Julian Barnes's 1998 novel England, England may be one of these. Yet, unlike others it achieves a complicated and controversial status as a new kind of historiographic metafiction by providing selfconscious reflections on the invention of innocence and the questionable notion of historical authenticity against the background of current postmodern historical, cultural, and literary explorations. The book, set in a near-future, namely post-post-modern England, starts with a story of a young girl, Martha Cochrane, whose first memory goes back to her early infantile years. Yet, the narrator comments that it is a lie, "her first artfully, innocently arranged lie," since memory, or history, is a product of identity, and vice versa. Her memory of the jigsaw puzzle is both a reminiscent and a significant component of who she is now, both a simulacrum and the original of herself. The correlation between her individual memory and identity parallels that of a region, England, in formation of its history and nationality. "England, England" is the replicated miniature of the former glorious Kingdom as well as a becoming der Ding an sich (the thing itself). In search of the English history and identity, the author satirizes the modern mind's perception of the unreliability and arbitrariness of memory and history, and further explores the alternative to the postmodern discourses by suggesting the probability of inventing innocence glimpsed in children's face "believing while disbelieving." In doing so, the author reconstructs not only the history of Englishness on the ground where nothing seems to be solid, but more importantly also the postmodern theme of relativity in relation to memory, history and identity.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2023

With the continuous development of the game field, the subdivision of game types is becoming more and more precise. There are also more and more games that draw on some achievements in other fields in their game design. Among them are meta-fiction games based on metafiction. This article will explore whether the combination of a meta-fiction game and a side-scrolling game with a unique visual experience is appropriate. If the side-scrolling game is the external form of the game, then the meta-fiction game is the internal content core of the game. The degree of fit between the external form and the internal core will undoubtedly determine the lower limit and upper limit of the game quality. Based on alienation theory, this article takes several highly rated side-scrolling games on the market as examples to conduct a theoretical analysis on the compatibility of side-scrolling games and metafiction games. The analysis results suggest that compared to first-person games, side-scrolling games with a unique third-person perspective have the best compatibility with meta-games.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.809-837
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• 2012

Philip Roth rejects the narrative unity and singularity of the traditional novel and creates instead a multi-levelled, fragmentary, and repetitive narrative. It is not easy to distinguish fact from fiction in The Plot Against America. As an entertaining and creative work of the postmodern historiographic metafiction, Philip Roth's The Plot Against America interrogates the existence of historically verifiable facts, the validity of authentic and official version of history, and reexamines the narrative conventions of history writing. The aim of this paper is to examine Roth's narrative experiment or 'thought experiment' and to explore the intention of creating alternative history in The Plot Against America. Roth does a 'thought experiment' in The Plot Against America. In this cautionary "what if" political fable, Roth hypothesizes that in 1940 aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, an ardent isolationist who was sympathetic to Hiltler, won the presidency. Jewish communities are stunned and terrified as America flirts with fascism and anti-semitism. Reimagining his children-with considerable fact mixed in with the fiction-Roth narrates an alternative history that has an unsettling plausibility. Roth has constructed a brilliantly telling and disturbing historical prism by which to refract the American psyche as it pertain to the discord of individual, race, history in The Plot Against America. Roth analyzes the life of individual in a historic space, the situation of anti-semitism in world of invisible order, racial conflict between black and white in world of visible order, and the darkest side of national power in this work. Roth's stories argue for the equality of various cultures grounded on the common notion of humanity, for an ethic of mutual respect, and for the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.115-127
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• 2002

This study aims to investigate John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. This important postmodern novel is arguably the most important fiction published in England during the 1960's. John Fowles, along with Muriel Spark, Irish Mudoch and Doris Lessing is one the most influential postmodern writers. This is a study on the narrative technique, multiful endings, parody and author intrusion. The French Lieutenant's Woman is metafiction - a novel about writing a novel. The author says "This story I am telling is all imagination" in chapter 13. That is to say that John Fowles subverts traditional and even modernist poetics. His own intentional attempt to depart from traditional narrative structure is itself one of the novel's central issues. Through The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles shows postmodernist writers' narrative strategy.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.293-314
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• 2009

Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller does not belong to a typical category of books, for it looks more like a family album with photographs, poems and Pueblo narratives as well as short stories authored by her. This 'book' without any chapters defies a traditional concept of books we are familiar with. In addition to refusing to be labelled as a conventional book, I argue, Storyteller defies the tradition of Western personal writing in that it shows the collective power of stories. That is, stories have the collective power which is impersonal beyond personal, internalized identity. It does not mean, however, the collective power comes from groups rather than individuals. It is not the conventional opposition of group and individual but that of group and collectiveness that matters here. I draw a distinction between group and collectiveness on the ground that the former actually groups individuals into categories with which individuals identify themselves. It is not group but collectiveness where stories find their power. "Storyteller," the first of eight short stories in the book, tells the story of an unnamed protagonist, a Yupik Eskimo girl, who takes revenge of her parents who died after drinking poisoned alcohol sold by a white storeman. There are four layers of stories in this short story. The first one is the old man's story of a blue glacier bear; the second one is a revenge story of the Yupik girl; the third one is a story told by the girl to the attorney after being arrested for the death of a storeman. And the final one is the story told to us by Silko, entitled "Storyteller." Although the structure of story within story resembles a technique of metafiction at a glance, it surely is a characteristic of Pueblo narratives in general, according to Silko. This kind of stories within stories refers to the collective power of story which, like a spider's web with many little threads radiating from the center and crisscrossing one another, is also a characteristic of stories on the Web today.

• 기호학연구
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• 제57호
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• pp.211-255
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• 2018

본 논문은 한때 "노동"을 주제로 한 공론의 장에서 이슈가 되었던 웹툰 "미생"의 '다시 읽기'를 시도하였다. 주인공 장그래의 행위소 구조가 갖는 이중적 성격이 텍스트 전체에 이중적 구조를 부여하며 이는 기존 담론의 장에서 이야기되지 않았던 텍스트 의미를 발견토록 해준다는 것이 우리의 독서 가설이었다. 이는 아즈마 히로키가 그의 포스트모던 문학론에서 이야기한 '탈이야기적 캐릭터' 개념에 기초한 생각이다. 우리는 본 가설을 확인하기 위해 파리학파의 주축을 이루는 기호학자 퐁타뉴의 이론을 적용하여 작품을 분석하였다. 장그래는 발화체 층위의 주체 '캐릭터'와 발화 층위의 주체 '플레이어'로 분열된 이원적 행위소 구조를 보인다. 인물의 이러한 특징을 고려하면 본 작품은 발화체 주체와 발화 주체 간의 '연동/탈연동' 관계를 메타 픽션의 양식으로 보여주는 텍스트로 해석될 수 있다. 캐릭터 층위에서 장그래는 "결핍(현동화)"의 현존양식을 보이지만 플레이어 층위에서 장그래는 "무력감(가능화)"의 현존양식을 보인다. 그의 신체성 또한 이원적 성격을 보이는데 이를 신체-행위소 모델로 나타내면, 캐릭터 층위에서 장그래는 육적 자아와 동일성-자기가 결합된 행위소로, 플레이어 층위에서는 주로 내부수용적 지각을 담당하는 육적 자아와 자기성-자기가 결합된 행위소로 이해될 수 있다. 전자가 주로 '역할'로서 움직이며 외부수용적 지각을 담당한다면 후자는 주로 '태도'로서 움직이며 내부수용적 지각을 담당한다. 이 해리적 성격으로 인해 장그래의 두 '자기'는 환경이 요구하는 가치 체계와 개인의 독자성 사이에서 큰 갈등을 겪지 않고 가치의 재조정을 유도한다. 이는 환경과 '자기' 사이의 갈등을 겪으며 고뇌하는 다른 등장인물들과 뚜렷한 대비를 이룬다. 실효성이 의심되는 규범을 습관적으로 받아들이면 관례가 되지만 문제 제기를 하면 규범 체계는 업데이트될 수 있다. 본 작품의 한 축에는 관례 속에 매몰되어 자기를 잃어버린 인물들이 있고 다른 한 축에는 기존 규범을 해체시키고 체계를 업데이트하는 방식 외에 달리 살 수 없는 장그래가 있다. 장그래는 가치 포화의 시대, 공동체적 가치 공유가 불가능한 이 시대에 개인이 가질 수 있는 여러 가능한 현존양식 가운데 하나를 보여주는 인물이며 이러한 행위소 구조는 또한 발화체 주체보다 발화 주체에 더욱 감정이입하는 오늘날의 독자와 소통한다.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.191-221
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• 2019

본 연구는 최근 주요한 인문학적 테제로 등장하고 있는 포스트휴머니즘적 상상력이 한국문학, 특히 소설에 나타난 양상을 분석하는 것을 목표로 한다. 특히 본고에서는 2000년대 초반 활동했던 작가인 조하형의 두 소설 『키메라의 아침』(2004)과 『조립식 보리수나무』(2008) 두 편을 집중적인 분석의 대상으로 삼는다. '포스트휴머니즘(Post-humanism)'은 근대의 한계를 극복하고 새로운 세계관의 정립을 모색하기 위해 노력한 탈근대적 사유의 연장선상에서 파악할 수 있다. 특히 이 사상은 20세기 이후 급격히 발전한 과학 기술의 발달이 인간관 나아가서는 인간중심적인 문명 자체를 바꿔온 양상을 종합적으로 파악하는 데에 관심을 기울인다. 포스트휴머니즘 비평은 서사에 등장하는 인물 형상을 새롭게 바라보는 시선을 제공하는 한편, 과거에 쓰인 고전 작품 속에서 주목받지 못했던 주변 인물들, 비-인간, 사물들을 발굴해서 재조명하는 작업을 시도하고 있다. 이러한 사상적 흐름은 최근 기존의 인문학이 지배하던 인간에 대한 관념이 전면적으로 바뀌어 자연과학·기술적 관점이 담론장에 다양하게 적용되는 현실을 반영하는 것이다. 포스트휴머니즘의 질문들은 철학의 큰 범주인 존재론, 인식론, 경험론적인 분야를 아우르는 동시에 문학과 과학 그리고 사회과학 전체의 참여를 요청함으로써 학제적인 연구 과제를 발생시키고 있다. 혹독한 재난이 닥친 세계를 배경으로 『키메라의 아침』은 인간이 바이오테크놀로지에 의해 변형된 변종의 형태로, 『조립식 보리수나무』는 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션에 의해 제작된 인공지능(Artificial Intelligence)의 모습으로, 다시 태어나는 과정을 그린다. 조하형 소설에 나타난 포스트휴머니즘적 사상은 텍스트에 재현된 세계의 형상와 인간의 정체성을 종합적으로 재고하고, 인간과 비인간을 구분하는 경계선과 위계질서 등을 다시 탐구하는 반성적인 계기가 된다.