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A Comparative Study of Structure and Theme in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  • Yang, Hyun-Chul
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.5
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    • pp.249-258
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    • 1999
  • This paper will discuss how the structure and theme develop and compare between the Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is generally considered as the finest of the English romances. The striking feature of this poem is its tight and organized structure, whereas most of the romances are loose in structure. This poem is composed of four fits containing traditional elements of romance: the Beheading Game; the Temptation and Hunting; the Exchange of Winnings; Returning. This process is linked together systematically, and as it goes on, certain external elements of romance come into view. There are heroic ideal, Christian humiliation and chastity, so the two themes or motifs are combined to produce a work of impressive organic unity.

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Narrative Strategy of TV Nature Documentary Epilogue System (국내 TV 자연 다큐멘터리 에필로그 시스템에 나타난 서사 전략 분석 -<남극의 눈물>을 중심으로-)

  • Lyou, Chul-Gyun;Moon, Arum
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2014
  • This study focuses on clarifying narrative strategy of the epilogue system of TV nature documentary. TV nature documentary epilogue system is different from making film. Because it has stories about production team's daily life and incidents while they make films in nature. Therefore, TV documentary epilogue system has distinctive narrative features comparing to the documentary itself. This study analyzes into the distinctive narrative features of TV documentary epilogue system. According to Frye, there are four types of narrative based on narrative structure. 'The tears of Antarctica' has achieved reconciliation between nature and human by it's narrative structure of comic romance and comic character. Therefore, comic romance's narrative features of TV documentary epilogue system overcomes tragic features of the documentary itself.

A study on the Tendency of Localization for Game Environment Design - Based on the Analysis in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (게임배경디자인의 한.중.일 지역적 특성에 관한 연구 - 삼국지게임 대상으로)

  • Wei, Meng;Cho, Dong-Min
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2013
  • With the development of chinese online games rapidly, Game markets need the actual possibilities of practical game's technology increasingly. Additionally Lack of originality of the Chinese online games couldn't be appropriated for consumer's preferences, so it is necessary that the talents in a game design and management should be cultivated. When we cultivate the talents, we should pay attention to the various styles in different countries, that is why we will make a comparative study on the games respectively achieved in China, Japan, and Korea according to the romance of the three kingdoms. They respected the traditional Chinese cultures as materials of this theme, it is worth learning and referencing. We had selected representative 6 games among 25 three Kingdom games and 2 games for each country as a stimulus of the game architectural design in the backgrounds design, with using of SPSS regression analysis, Therefore, this research will provide the references for the better development talents of whom can not only understand Chinese traditional culture but also adapt to the needs of game development.

A Study on Hakchangui, the Scholar's Robe with Dark Trim (학창의 연구)

  • Park, Sun-Hee;Hong, Na-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.61 no.2
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    • pp.60-71
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    • 2011
  • This study set out to examine Hakchangui worn in Joseon around the 18th century and further the relationships between the Chinese Hakchang and Joseon Hakchangui, as well as to figure out spread factors of Hakchangui. The study proceeded as follows: 1)The Hakchangui was examined those appearing in the collections of works and paintings after the 17th century. 2)The Zhuge Liang's Hakchang was researched through Romance of Three Kingdoms, paintings and sculptures. 3)The images of Hakchangui wearers described in literature were investigated to understand the symbolic meanings of Hakchangui in Joseon those days. Those research efforts revealed four findings: 1)In many cases, the Hakchangui worn in Joseon in the 17th and 18th century has side slits, but no back slit. It's both sides of the center front were parallel, not overlapped. 2)Hakchangui was strange to the Joseon people until the end of the 18th century but started to permeate among those who liked classic style. 3)The aspects of Zhuge Liang were standardized in the combination of 'Yungeon, Hakchang, a feather fan and a wagon' in Romance of Three Kingdoms. 4)Zhuge Liang was considered as a symbol of wisdom and loyalty and had an image of a Taoist hermit who transcended the mundane world. The analysis of the research findings led to two following conclusions: 1)ln Joseon the Chinese Hakchang was introduced to people who had exchanges with Chinese or liked classic style in the 17th and 18th century and gradually spread by their advocates. 2)The Hakchangui must have been increasingly worn by more Joseon scholars because they started to borrow the image of Zhuge Liang driven by the popularity of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the tendency of reinforcing Zhuge Liang's image as a loyal subject by the kings of Joseon.

Immigrants' Romance and Hybridity in Younghill Kang's East Goes West (『동과 서의 만남』에 나타난 이민자들의 로맨스와 혼종화)

  • Jeong, Eun-sook
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.215-240
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    • 2009
  • This paper focuses on how Younghill Kang internalizes whiteness ideology through interracial romance to build himself as an oriental Yankee and recover his masculinity in his autobiographical novel East Goes West. This paper also focuses on Kang's strategy of racial and cultural hybridity presented in this novel. The theoretical basis of my argument is a mixture of Fanon's psychoanalysis in his Black Skin, White Masks, Bhabha's notion of mimicry in The Location of Culture, and notions related to race and gender of some Asian critics such as Patricia Chu, Jinqi Ling, and Lisa Lowe. In East Goes West, white women appear as "ladder of success" of successful assimilation and serve as cultural mediators and instructors and sometimes adversaries who Korean male immigrants have to win to establish identities in which Americanness, ethnicity, and masculinity are integrated. However, three Korean men, Chungpa Han, To Wan Kim, George Jum, who fall in love with white women fail to win their beloveds in marriage. George Jum fails to sustain a white dancer, Jun' interest. Kim wins the affection of Helen Hancock, a New England lady, but Kim commits suicide when he knows Helen killed herself because her family doesn't approve their relationship. Han's love for Trip remains vague, but Kang implies Han will continue his quest for "the spiritual home" as the name of "Trip." In East Goes West, Kang also attempts to challenge the imagining of a pure, monolithic, and naturalized white dominant U.S. Culture by exploring the cultural and racial hybridity shown by June and the various scenes of Halem in the 1920s. June who works for a Harlem cabaret is a white woman but she wears dark makeup. Kang questions the white face of America's self-understanding and racial constitution of a unified white American culture through June's racial masquerade. Kang shows that like Asian and black Americans, the white American also has an ambivalent racial identity through June's black mimicry and there is no natural and unchanging essence behind one's gender and race identity constitution.

Complicative Mystery Structure Shown in the TV Drama Misty : Focusing on Delaying Strategy and Genre Hybrid (TV 드라마 <미스티(Misty)>에 나타난 미스터리 구조의 중층성 : 지연 전략과 장르 혼성을 중심으로)

  • Seo, Eun-Hye
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.734-743
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    • 2021
  • TV drama , aired on JTBC in 2018, used several fictional and linguistic clues on the murder case. It effectively delayed the process of inferring the perpetrator by utilizing 'ambiguity' and 'trap', which enabled the double interpretation of the the main character's diaglogue and action. This delay could be made by employment of genre hybrid, cognitive process and knowledge of viewers about typical romance plot and mystery plot in TV drama. In other words, could be evaluated as a special genre hybrid case that disturbs viewers' perception of genre in that the correct reasoning process began from the point that overturned the viewer's expectation about typical romance genre dramas in which male main characters mostly devoted to love. The complicating mystery structure shown in is against the opinion that the traditional mystery structure is difficult to succeed in TV dramas. Also, from the perspective of hybrid genre, it is different from the usual mechanical combination of two different plots. These characteristics in are worth to highly evaluated.