• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1131-1149
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• 2011

Michael McKeon, in The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, sets forth a theoretical study of a large canon of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury works, based upon the dialectic of genre formations, which attempts to analyze certain "instabilities" in generic and social categories- "instabilities" that McKeon identifies as "Questions of Truth" and "Questions of Virtue." In this paper, I argue with McKeon's optimistic reading of Samuel Richardson's work, Clarissa, or The History of Young Lady (1740), which concludes that-unlike Pamela's "manifest material and social empowerment"-Clarissa acquires "manifest discursive and imaginative empowerment" and "wins" (to use McKeon's terms) the "battle" with her antagonist, Robert Lovelace. What is difficult to accept in this reading of Clarissa is McKeon's claim that the "success" of Clarissa's resistance to Lovelace, despite the tragic rape, is evident in her "new-found power" which is represented in the heroine's spiritual "conversion"- her decision to die to protect her "version of truth and virtue." McKeon's spiritual "conversion" not only forces Clarissa to surrender her legal right to prosecute her rapist but also forces her to seek the shelter of her "father's house" in the afterlife because she can no longer "make others accept [her] own version of events as authoritative." Thus, in contrast to McKeon, I claim that Clarissa represents the necessary conditions for its heroine's "empowerment" primarily in language that suggests her manifest social invalidation; language which in particular emphasizes that her rape and torture by Lovelace forces Clarissa's spiritual "conversion" to seek her reward in the afterlife-thereby concluding that Clarissa's discursive and imaginative empowerment does not and cannot exist in the secular, material world.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.185-194
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• 2005

하이브리드 관점에서 디자인은 혼돈스러운 형태와 형식을 갖는다. 따라서 문제의 핵심은 인간의 생존과 즐거움, 안녕에 '결정적으로 작용하는 것'이 무엇인가 하는 점이다. 이를 생태적 관점에서 해결하려는 과학적 생태론은 기능적 디자인이란 측면에서 그 논의의 중심에 있었으나 이제 인간의 환경적 적응 양상이 동물과 다르다는 관점에서 생태학적 논리를 넘어선다. 이러한 관점에서 디자인은 과잉하고, 초과되고, 엄밀한 물질적 기준을 초과하는 어떤 것으로 정의된다. 테리 이글턴이 '스스로 일탈하고 초월하는 창조적 능력이 바로 인간을 측정하는 기준이 된다'고 말했듯이 창조적 관점에서 제 영역을 하이브리드 시키고자 하는 탈장르화나 해체현상을 추구하는 경향을 환경디자인 분야에서도 찾아볼 수 있다. 이는 유기적 관점에서 자연환경과 건축공간을 창조적으로 일체화함으로써 인간의 문화적 행동에 의한 공간의 형성과 반응에 중점을 두고 있는 것으로 이해할 수 있다. 이와 같은 현상들은 디지털 기술이 발전에 따른 새로운 조형실험을 통해 새로운 기회와 가능성을 제공해 주고 있다. 디지털 기술을 활용한 환경디자인의 실험적 시도가 활발히 진행됨과 동시에 생태적 세계관과 문화적 세계관이 하이브리드 되어 보다 다양한 기능과 특징을 통합한 새로운 문화 공간이 디자인되고 있다. 환경 디자인 분야의 이러한 실험은 생태학적 세계관, 가치중심의 인식과 관계중심의 사고, 간학문적인 연계의 중시와 더불어 새로운 문화적 발전을 추구하는 도구로 가능하게 하였다. 본 연구는 이러한 디지털 하이브리드 디자인의 패러다임을 인식하고 이론적 고찰과 사례분석을 통해 환경디자인의 적용 양상과 구성원리를 고찰하여 그 체계를 세우는 것을 그 목적으로 한다. 그리고 문명사적 관점에서 환경티자인의 새로운 발전 가능성을 모색 하고자한다.

• 한국연극학
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• 제40호
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• pp.307-344
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• 2010

Cultural Studies built on the critical mind of New Left exposes the relationship between culture and power, and investigates how this relationship develops the cultural convention. It has achieved the new perspective that could make us to think culture and art in terms of political correctness. However, the critical voices against the theoretical premises of Cultural Studies have been increased as its heyday in 1980s was nearly over. For instance, Terry Eagleton, a former Marxist literary critic, declared in 2003 that the golden age of cultural theory is long past. This essay, therefore, intends to show the weak foundations on which the approaches of cultural studies to theatre rest and to clarify the general problem of their introduction to theatre studies. The approach of cultural studies to theatre takes the form of 'top-down inquiry' as it applies a theory to a particular play or historical period. In other word, from the theory the writer moves to the particular case. The result is not an inquiry but rather a demonstration. This circularity can destroy the point of serious intellectual investigation as the theory dictates answers. The goal-oriented narrow viewpoint as a logical consequence of 'top-down inquiry' makes the researcher to favor the plays or the parts of a play that are proper to test a theory. As a result it loses the fair judgment on the artistic value of a play, and brings about the misinterpretation. The interpreter-oriented reading is the other defect of cultural studies as it disregards the inherent meaning of the text, distorting a play. The approach of cultural studies also consists of a conventionality as it arrives at a stereotyped interpretation by using certain conventions of reasoning and rhetoric. The cultural theories are fundamentally the 'outside theories' that seek to explain not theatre but the very broad features of society and politics. Consequently their application to theatre risks the destructive criticism, disregarding the inherent experience of theatre. Most of, if not all, cultural theories, furthermore, are proven to be lack of empirical basis. The alternative method to them is a 'cognitive science' that proves scientifically our mind being influenced by bodily experience. The application of cultural materialism to Shakespeare's is one of the cases that reveal the limits of cultural studies. Jonathan Dollimore and Water Cohen provide a kind of 'canonical study' in this application that is imitated by the succeeding researchers. As a result the interpretation of has been flooded with repetitive critical remarks, revealing the problem of 'top-down inquiry' and conventional reasoning. Cultural Studies is antipodal to theatre in some respect. It is interested chiefly in the social and political reality while theatre aims to create the fiction world. The theatre studies, therefore, may have to risk the danger of destroying its own base when it adopts cultural studies uncritically. The different stance between theatre and cultural theories also occurs from the opposition of humanism vs. antihumanism. We have to introduce cultural theories selectively and properly not to destroy the inherent experience and domain of theatre.