• 영어영문학
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.585-600
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• 2018

Over the last three decades, the field of American Studies has increasingly paid attention to transnational approaches in an effort to diversify and expand the field's concerns beyond the narrow sense of the nation-state in today's globalizing world. Yet, the mediation of the transnational requires a careful analysis of the nation that is still in transit. In this context, this essay examines Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851) as a case study that vividly shows how reading American literature and culture through transnationalism not only offers new interpretations of canonical texts, but also helps us to better understand the historical roots and cultural contexts of contemporary issues such as global labor and migration, US citizenship and racial justice. To address the complexity of the text's circulation and reproduction, coupled with US national ideology and cultural conditions, I first turn to the canonization of Melville's Moby-Dick during the Cold War era as a national project and then explore the possibilities of transnational readings by focusing on the politics of race and global capitalism in the nineteenth century whaling industry. In doing so, I argue that critical transnationalism allows readers to keep questioning about their own understanding of race, nation, and cultural identity while remaining attentive to the destructive force of US imperialism and global capitalism in the twenty-first century.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.217-247
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• 2012

This essay attempts to read Melville's Moby-Dick as a prefiguration of American pragmatism, especially Jamesian version of it. Underlying this project is the assumption that the American Romance and James's pragmatism partake in the enduring tradition of American thoughts and imagination. Despite the commonality in their roots, the continuity between these two products of American culture has received few critical assessments. The American Romance has rarely been discussed in terms of American pragmatism in part because critics have tended to narrowly define the latter as a kind of relativistic philosophy equivalent to practical instrumentalism, political realism and romantic utilitarianism. Consequently, they have favored literary works in the realistic tradition for their textual analyses, while eschewing a more imaginative genre like the American Romance. My contention is that James's version of pragmatism is a future oriented pluralism which is unable to dispense with the power of imagination and the talent for seeing unforeseen possibilities inherent in nature and culture. James's pragmatism is in tune with the American Romance in that it savours the attractions of alternative possibilities created by the genre in which the imaginary world is imbued with the actual one. The pragmatic impulse in Moby-Dick finds its finest expression in the words and acts of Ishmael. Through this protean narrator, Melville renders the text of Moby-Dick symbolic, fragmentary and thereby pluralistic in its meaning. With his rhetoric of incompletion and by refraining from totalizing what he experiences, Ishmael shuns finality in truth and entices the reader to join his intellectual journey with a non-foundational notion of truth and meaning in view. Ishmael also envisages pragmatists' beliefs that experience is fluid in nature and the universe is in a constant state of becoming. Yet Ishmael as the narrator of Moby-Dick is more functional than foundational.

• 미국학
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.27-56
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• 2020

This paper attempts to interpret the meaning of nine gams in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. It approaches the topic from an organizational identity perspective. It is the theory which asserts the importance of the reference group in the formation of group members' organizational identity. This paper views the gams as the reference groups for the sailors of the Pequod and shows what meanings or questions each gam presents to them. It divides the nine gams into three groups according to their functions in the organizational sense. This paper argues that the extremely dangerous quest of the Pequod is not led by the captain only, but the sailors, who are given many chances to make their decisions after having gams, eventually choose to obey and follow their leader. The tragic end is partly what they choose, after all.

• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권34호
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• pp.237-262
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• 2014

대부분의 한국 대중영화와 드라마에서 기자는 부패한 권력과 야합하여 비리를 일삼거나 목적을 달성하기 위하여 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는 캐릭터로 등장하고 있다. 문제는 부정적 측면에 치우쳐 형성된 기자 담론이 언론에 대한 국민의 불신감을 더욱 조장하고 있는 데 있다. 따라서 대중문화에서의 기자 재현은 언론의 신뢰도와 직결된다는 면에서 중요하다. 이와 관련하여 최근 주목할 만한 현상이 대중영화에서의 여기자 재현이다. 본 연구는 구체적으로 대중영화에서 여기자가 어떻게 재현되고 있는지를 보고, 기자 담론 형성의 개선 방향을 모색하기 위하여 2011년 작 <모비딕>과 2012년 작 <부러진 화살>에 대하여 질적 내용분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과 등장인물을 중심으로 3가지 유형의 여기자 재현양상이 도출되었다. 이 두 편에 등장하는 여기자의 긍정적인 재현상은 '변혁적 리더십'과 '정보기기 활용 능력', '감성적 공감능력'이다. 첫 번째 유형은 <모비딕>의 조부장이다. 주체적 결정권을 가진 조부장의 등장은 언론 조직의 변화를 의미하며 인간적 배려와 지적 자극을 중심으로 한 조부장의 '변혁적 리더십'은 21세기에 가장 이상적으로 요구되는 리더십 유형이다. 또한 조부장은 극 중 간부직 남성 기자가 권력과 유착하는 모습을 보이는 것과 대비하여 본연의 역할 수행에만 충실하다. 두 번째 유형은 <모비딕>의 성효관 기자이다. 성효관은 정보화 사회에서 뉴미디어를 정보수집에 능숙하게 활용하는 여기자로서 극 중 동료 남성 기자들이 일상적으로 부도덕한 행위를 자행하는 것과 대비하여 전문적이고 도덕적인 인물로 묘사된다. 그러나 동료 기자로부터 독립적이고 주체적인 한 명의 기자가 아닌 보호 대상으로 인식 되고 있는 점은 한계로 보인다. 세 번째 유형은 <부러진 화살>의 장은서 기자이다. 장은서는 여성 특유의 공감 능력을 바탕으로 극 중 부당 권력의 피해자로 묘사된 김경호 교수와 박준 변호사 간의 매개자이자 정서적 파트너로서의 역할을 수행하고 있다. 분석 결과를 보았을 때 기존의 남성 기자와 유의미한 차이를 보이는 여기자 재현이 대중영화에서 기자의 위상과 역할에 대한 긍정적 담론 형성에 기여하리라고 판단된다. 그러나 분석에서 드러났듯이 긍정적으로 재현되고 있는 여기자조차 현실에서 마주하고 있는 한계를 겪고 있으며 이것이 언론 사회에서 여기자를 일부라고 인식하게 한다는 점은 제한 점이다. 이는 긍정적 담론이 향후 성별을 막론하여 전체 기자 집단으로 전이되는 데 장애가 될 가능성이 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.222-230
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• 2005

This article presents a field evaluation of an IP-based architecture for heterogeneous environments that has been developed under the aegis of the Moby Dick project, covering UMTS-like (universal mobile telecommunications system) TD-CDMA (time division-code division multiple access) wireless access technology, wireless and wired LANs. The architecture treats all transmission capabilities as basic physical and data-link layers, and replaces all higher-level tasks by IP-based strategies. The Moby Dick architecture incorporates mobile IPv6, fast handovers, AAA-control (authentication, authorisation, accounting), charging and quality of service (QoS) in an integrated framework. The architecture further allows for optimised control on the radio link layer resources. It has been implemented and tested by expert users, and evaluated by real users on field trials with multiple services available.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1996년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(2)
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• pp.241-246
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• 1996

An analytical model to calculate rate of vapor generation due to heterogeneous wall nucleation in flashing flow is developed. In the present model, an important parameter of the vapor generation term, i.e. nucleation site density is calculated by integrating its probability distribution function with respect to active cavity radius. The limits of integration are minimum and maximum active cavity radii, and these are formulated using an active cavity model for nucleate boiling. This formulation, therefore. can statistically account for the effect of surface specific thermo-physical and geometric conditions on the vapor generation rate and flashing inception. For verifying the adequacy of the present model, steady state two-fluid and the bubble transport equations are solved with applicable constitutive equations. The applicable region of the bubble transport equation is also extended to churn-turbulent flow regime to predict interfacial area concentration at high void fraction. Predicted results in terms of axial pressure and void fraction profiles along the channels are compared with experimental data of Super Moby Dick and BNL Reasonable agreements have been achieved and this shows the applicability of the present model to flashing flow analysis.