• 영어영문학
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• 제59권4호
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• pp.619-643
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• 2013

The experience of interment during World War II has been one of the primary motifs of fictional and autobiographical narratives by Japanese Americans. Examining textual evidences in John Okada's No-No Boy and Monica Sone's Nisei Daughters, this paper argues that the internment has been designed, carried out and concluded based primarily on the principles of economics. Borrowing the notion that 'wealth has (racial) color' as Lui and others maintain, this paper analyzes episodes in which the protagonists and other characters testify how their internment has resulted in their loss of capital as well as human rights and dignity, not to mention temporary suspension of their citizenships. In addition, this paper contrasts the image of the US as a land of equity as represented in the literary texts of the $18^{th}$ century authors in the US with that of our two authors. In doing so, this paper argues that the historical incident of internment in the $20^{th}$ century is the scene in which American ideals become irrecoverably sullied and American dreams turn into American nightmares.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.149-167
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• 2008

Korea has persisted in the notion of "ethnic nationalism." That is "one race, one people, one language" as a homogeneous entity. This social ideal of unity prevails, even in overseas Korean communities formed by voluntary and involuntary displacement in the turmoil of modern history: communities made intermittent with the Japanese colonial occupation and with postcolonial encounters with the West. Given that the Korean people suffered from the trauma of deprivation of the language caused by the loss of the nation, nation has been equated with the language. Accordingly, "these bearers of a homeland" are also firm Korean language holders. The linguistic patriotism of unity based on the intertwining of "mother tongue" and "father country" has become prevalent in the collective memory of the people of the Korean diaspora. Korean American literature has grappled with this concept of the national history of Korea and the Korean language. The aesthetics of Korean American literature has been marked by an influx of literary resources of 'Korea' in sensibilities and structure of feelings; Korean myth, folk lore, songs, humor, traditional stories, manners, customs and historic moments. An experimental use of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, written down as pronounced, provides an ethnic flavor in the midst of the English texts. Despite its national framework of mind, however, Korean American literature as an interstitial art reveals a keen awareness of inbetweenness, and transnational hybrid identities. By exploring the complex interrelationships of cultural and linguistic boundary-crossing practices in Korean American literature, this paper argues that the poetics of the Korean diaspora challenges the closed structure of identity formation, and offers a transnational sphere to deconstruct a rigidly demarcated national ideology of "one race, one people, one language," for the world literary history.

• 동양고전연구
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• 제37호
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• pp.411-439
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• 2009

부산(傅山, 1607~1684)은 명말청초에 매우 현실참여적 삶을 살았던 인물이다. 부산이 바라보는 당대의 지식인들은 정주(程朱)의 빈껍데기에 의지하여 도학선생이라고 허풍을 떨면서 자리만 지키고 있는 허수아비들이었다. 그는 리(理)와 기(氣), 성(性)과 정(情) 등만을 논의하는 것은 현실세계의 활발한 실용적 측면을 도외시한 채 추상적 사유에만 머물게 하여 현실 세계의 다양성을 무시하는 부작용을 낳는다고 보았다. 부산의 이러한 사유는 정치사상이나 문학론에 고스란히 드러난다. 그는 기적 세계보다 먼저 그것을 규제하고 통제하는 리가 존재한다는 송명 리학(理學)의 주장은 일종의 도덕적 이데올로기를 창출하여 봉건적 전제주의를 이론적으로 합리화하는 논리 틀을 제공한다고 보았다. 따라서 부산에게 있어 성인은 이러한 사회의 불합리한 요소를 척결하는 사회 개변가이며 혁명가였다. 부산은 문학도 활발발한 기의 세계를 표현할 수 있어야 한다고 보았다. 자유분방한 광(狂)의 경지, 창조적인 경지가 진정한 문학이라고 보았다. 옛 문체나 흉내내면서 고답적인 작문을 하는 것은 천기(天機)의 자연스러움을 거스르는 행위였다. 글은 변화무상한 활발발한 세계를 표현할 수 있어야 하는 것이었다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제40권
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• pp.159-183
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• 2015

본 논의는 변화와 개혁의 시기였던 1990년대 중국조선족 문학의 쟁점들을 시문학 비평을 중심으로 살펴보았다. 중국의 개혁개방 이후의 사회적 변화는 조선족문학이 기존의 문예 이론이나 문학적 경향에서 탈피하여 새로움을 추구하는 동시에 존립의 방향과 정체성을 재점검하는 계기가 되었다. 본고는 "문학과 예술", "장백산"에 실린 비평들을 통해 이 시기 조선족문학의 상황과 시대적 문제의식 그리고 그들이 추구한 방향성은 무엇이었는지에 주목해보았다. 사회 문화적 개방화의 물결 속에서 조선족 비평가들은 비평의 위기와 극복 방안에 대해 논의를 진행했다. 사회주의 리얼리즘적 창작 방법을 추구했던 기존의 작품들과 달리 변화하는 현실과 그것을 반영한 작품들을 보면서 평단은 비평의 역량을 강화하기 위해 무엇보다 지식과 이론의 수용이 필요하다는 점을 제기했다. 이런 움직임은 사회주의 문예이론을 완전히 탈피하고자 하는 것은 아니었지만 비평의 질적 발전을 위해 다양한 이론의 섭수가 중요하다는 점이 강조되었다. 그리고 새로운 비평 이론에 대한 갈망과 요구는 시문학 비평에서 현대성에 관한 논의로 이어졌다. 비평가들은 문예지를 통해 서구의 문예이론을 소개하는 한편, 포스트모더니즘이나 탈이데올로기적 추세를 비판적으로 수용하며 조선족문학이 추구해야 하는 현대성이란 무엇인가에 대해 방향을 모색했다. 조선족문학의 현대성 논의는 조선족의 문화적 전통 및 특수성을 보여줄 수 있는 문화정체성 형상화에 대한 모색으로 이어졌다. 한편 조선족 비평은 민족문화와 민족정신을 계승하고자 하는 목표 아래 세계 문학과의 교류와 소통을 제기하기도 했다. 비평가들은 세계 문학과 공감할 수 있는 문학의 보편성을 획득하는 동시에 조선족 민족문화의 특수성을 형상화하고자 했다. 남영전의 토템시는 그러한 노력의 성공적인 결과물이라 할 수 있다. 1990년대 조선족 비평은 조선족문학만이 아니라 조선족 사회의 위기 앞에서 균열과 해체의 시대를 극복하는 방안을 제시하고자 노력했다. 이런 조선족 비평의 움직임은 중국이나 북한, 한국과 차별화되는 한글문학의 한 주체로서의 가능성을 보여주었다는 점에서 그 의의를 지닌다.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2007

As the world has been forming the global village and the cultures of each country are exchanged, the unique cultural specialty of each country high been merged with the generality in the world. The increasing interest on the oriental world and the globalization recently brings the fusion form of oriental and occidental cultures. In such a global trend, it is our challenge to find out the traditional beauty and the design factors of Korea for the new challenge and development of Korean fashion and to develop the most Korean and global design by interpreting them in a modem sense. It is the Era of the Three States when an of official hat among the personal ornaments of Korea was firstly described on the literature, including the literature of ancient China and Chronicles of Three States and Heritage of Three States of Korea. Those literatures clarified that the people in Goguryeo Baekje, Silla and Gaya decorated themselves with gold, silver and jade. Furthermore, since various kinds of ornaments have been excavated, they shown the development of metal craft in the Era of Three States. This study aim to exploit the design motives among the gold crown elements among the ornaments during the Era of Three States, interpret them in a modem expression, develop the textile design using the Adobe photoshop and suggest the application approaches by applying them to the clothing design.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1089-1109
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• 2011

In an attempt to demonstrate in context of Nietzsche's "overman" (ubermensch) and Heidegger's "Being-in-the-World" (Dasein) the collective human efforts to overcome humanism in crisis, I will provide the ground for the poetics of overcoming, the ground which are based upon the double movements of transhumanism and transnationalism. For this purpose, I will turn to the theories of two distinctive poets who reveal and disreveal their truths about the subjecthood or the subjectivity in terms of overcoming: Christopher Dewdney for posthuman transhumanity and Dionisio D. Martinez for transnational cultural contamination Transhumanism represented by Christopher Dewdney manifests an interfusion of outside and inside, thereby collapsing the boundary between the mind and the world, and provides a breakthrough from the limitedly defined mind to the transhuman perspective of overcoming by using terminalogy and techniques from science and technology. The emerging transhumanism reflects the growing interdependence between humans and bio technologies, and suggests a potential improvement of human beings. The main argument of transhumanism is that we humans can and should continue to develop in all possible directions, by overcoming our human limitations by shedding the body and having the disembodied consciousness which will liberate our mind. Kwame Anthony Appiah's "cultural contamination" is another form of overcoming as well as a way to otherness, a counter-ideal of cultural purity which sustains authentic culture, reversing the traditional binary opposition between enriching authenticity and threatening hybridization. Dionisio Martinez's poetry sublimates the negative side of Appiah's concept of contamination, by redeeming the value of the Appiah's list of the ideal of contamination such as hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings, a bit of this and a bit of that is how newness enters the world. When a poetic subject is doubly exiled and doubly homeless away from his/her native homeland and home of native language, one has no more identification with the authentic culture of both home and away, but rather anticipates a new identity as a transnational subject to cross the bridge beyond cultural authenticity and to enter into the field of cultural contamination.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.515-527
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• 2011

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson's novel of 1938, is a fairytale in novel form. Set in London of 1938, the story revolves around a one-day adventure of an ill-starred but truthful governess who is granted a second chance. This light-hearted comedy of manners was turned into a film by director Bharat Nalluri in 2008. An Anglo-American collaboration, co-scripted by Simon Beaufoy and David McGee, the film converts Watson's quaint novel into an edged heritage piece that encapsulates the 1930s, the problematic decade between the two World Wars. The film, while sustaining the narrative core of Watson's Cinderella story, attempts to place it firmly within a wider current of the novel's setting or London in 1938, tapping into the major concerns of the interwar years that engage with characters in one way or another. Stylistically, the film presents Art Deco as a main visual idiom to convey the prevailing mood of nihilism and decadence of the day. The setting here takes on significance in that it offers a telling counterpoint to the giddy superficial world of the novel. The 1930s was a highly charged decade under the threat of fascism and the Great Depression, fraught with economic and socio-political tensions and apprehensions. The film makes an explicit reference to the dismal context which is suppressed in the original text. The thirties is, therefore, portrayed as a decade of contradiction. It features gay buoyant festivity, rampant consumerism, and shifting morals and attitudes towards love, marriage and sexuality. Yet lurking beneath the surface glamour are the symptoms of crises and the deep-seated anxieties on the eve of World War II. In this way, Watson's novel of manners has been recreated into a defining film on the 1930s with its period feel propped by the atmospheric lighting, the exuberant Jazz score, and the splendid Art Deco costume and production design.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.865-883
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• 2009

The mock-heroic, "the single most characteristic and individual literary form of the neoclassical era," as Brean Hammond puts it, epitomizes the process of the "novelization" of the 18th-century British culture. Bakhtin mentions that when the novel reigns supreme, almost all the remaining genres are "novelized"; Hammond borrows the term "novelization" from Bakhtin and uses it as a "shorthand way of referring to the cultural forces that render epic anachronistic." Indebted to Hammond's apprehension of novelization, this paper reads Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock in the context of novelization, particularly focusing on 'probability,' 'contemporaneity' and 'domesticity,' three important signatures of the novelization of the 18th-century British culture. First, Sylph as a counterpart of god in epic is presented in The Rape of the Lock just as a helpless, fictional and irrelevant thing that hardly affects the empirical world. It indicates how the mock-epic 'mocks' the classical world of 'epic' and stands closer to the world of the novel. Second, Pope's poem displays an accurate picture of the author's contemporary reality, a capital concern of the novel, such as imperialism, consumer society, commodity fetishism, or reification. Lastly, The Rape of the Lock lays out the construction of modern gender ideology, another quintessential interest of the novel, particularly with the fixed female image of a coquette. It efficiently silences and nullifies Belinda, a typical coquette, who stands as a threatening force to the ascendent domestic ideology.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.363-389
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• 2011

Modern Chinese Literature, the so-called 'feminist' is a very modern and the traditional criticism and took an important position in the double action. Because a woman's freedom from the bondage of traditional ethics of restoring the social status equal to men but to women does not give, that compared to men and women just the dimension of the problem of isolation is not just. It is dominated by yugajeok worldview by streamlining the whole Chinese society to build a modern society and the country was a critical task. However, multi-cultural life of Lin, Hui-yin and Ling, Shu-hua in the history of the world's attention to the shrine was worried attention to soils, rather than East-West dualism law by taking a mixture of both women in modern Chinese literature and Western literature from the center of efforts to overcome the traditional point hayeotdaneun feminist literature that may be different. Lin, Hui-yin and Ling, Shu-hua to overcome the Western-oriented culture really the true dream of China's globalization and localization could be regarded. She naesewotdeon the banner of feminist literature in the traditional 'anti feudal', 'free personality' silcheondoen under such slogans as well as women's liberation from traditional, male-oriented perspective away from the women's unique experiences and new understanding of the value of the superiority the concept of a woman, and was to create. In particular, the femininity of these women who traditionally associated with women and the unique culture - the creation of a new consciousness, a re-evaluation of traditional feminine skills and talents was to try to.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.333-348
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of romanticism which is expressed in the latest trend and to explain them focused on anti-realistic yearning. As the method of the study, a literature review was conducted. Romanticism started from a complaint against reality and denied the previous era's philosophy and aesthetics. Romanticism placed much value on emotions and imagination. Also, the characteristics of romanticism art contains the yearning for nature, far culture, far past and supernatural world, by escaping from the complex reality which gives disillusionment. Such the characteristic can be easily found in the modern trend. Modern people, who live in the situation that the society is changed into the information society from the industrial society, have clung to the past things because they feel that the known and guaranteed world is finished. And they want to experience the new and various culture and nature escaping from insecurity on complicated reality. Also, the desire of modern people who want to escape from a daily routine world and the reality's limitations is expressed as the yearning for the supernatural world.