• 영어영문학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.315-337
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• 2011

This paper aims to examine a truth about love - the close relationship between a person's passionate love and that same person's loneliness and suppressed desires, a relationship that Carson McCullers (1917-1967) portrays in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. McCullers, one of several brilliant writers from Southern America, managed to overcome her cruel situation and showed deep insight into the human condition, particularly in regard to the relation between love and isolation. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, like her other works, examines the spiritual isolation and the agony of love that three lovers experience. The love in this story is a triangular relationship among the three main characters, Amelia, Lymon and Marvin Macy. The distinctive characteristics of love described in this story are that each character falls into blind and passionate love for the person he/she loves, no matter how the beloved responds. Love also changes the lover, not the beloved, revealing the completely opposite nature of the lover. The opposite nature and the inner secrets that the love reveals about the lovers reflect their frustrated and suppressed desires, which is femininity and motherhood for Amelia, non-violent masculine power for Macy, and physical attraction and power for the hunchback, Lymon. These suppressed desires are rooted in the deep sense of frustration that they had to experience in their childhood. In short, the seemingly unconditional love of the main characters is not an ideal, altruistic love, but a reflection of their inner desires. This story, however, does not seem to criticize this kind of love but simply tries to give an honest picture of what love might be. It also admits that 'deformed' love is still better than no love (and consequently no stimulus) because what really damages and causes decay in human beings and in a community, is the state of boredom.

• 복식
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.17-32
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• 2008

This study focuses on the analysis of Baudelaire's aesthetic perspective which has established a theoretical basis on research of the critical reviews' salon exhibitions as written by Baudelaire. Charles Pierre Baudelaire(1821-1867) having lived during the latter part of Neo-classicism and the era of Romanticism and Impressionism, Baudelaire displayed opposition to customary realities such as social ideology or religious authority that suppressed human nature. Also he pioneered a new genre known as art criticism and wrote much that provided important insights on the essential elements of artistic work, modernity and trend, as well as art definition and art categories. The aesthetic perspective and creative spirit were formed by Baudelaire, during his age were also reconfirmed in the successive ages of modernism and postmodernism. As such, this study sheds light on how Baudelaire's aesthetic perspective was not only temporarily assertion but it is consistently applied to modern art and fashion area. What is more important that, Baudelaire admired new artificial beauty that is created by the human soul liberated from natural instincts or desires. Especially, informed by strangeness and distinctiveness, Baudelaire's view of fashion ran along the same vein as his view of art, and these views form the basis of that creative spirit which situated western fashion on a center of the world. In conclusion, the research on Baudelaire's aesthetic perspective will reaffirm a firm awareness of the creative spirit essential to globally-oriented creative artists and designers who work within the circumstance of the 21st century, a time when the paving of new aesthetic paths is necessary. The research also offers a clear understanding of the aesthetic values demanded by this age.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.281-313
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• 2019

이 글은 이애림 만화의 서사적 특성을 밝히기 위한 목적으로 작성되었다. 이애림은 한국의 문화 부흥기라고 불리는 1990년대에 만화잡지의 붐을 타고 등장한 작가다. 만화 작가로 시작했지만 점차 영역을 확장해 애니메이션 감독으로서도 활발한 활동을 이어가고 있다. 이애림 작업의 표면적인 특징은 섹슈얼리티, 그로테스크, 판타지 정도로 압축하여 소개할 수 있다. 달리 말하면 성적(性的)이고 기괴하며 환상적인 형태를 가시화하는 것이 이애림 만화의 주된 특징이다. 이애림은 내내 누구보다 압도적이고 강렬하게 이미지로 승부를 한 작가였다. 그래서 오히려 그녀의 그림 뒤에 숨겨진 이야기가 무엇인지 면밀히 주의를 기울이지 않은 것이 사실이다. 본고는 이애림이 초기부터 최근까지 관심을 두는 서사성 다시 말해 이야기의 맥락에 대해 짚어보는 것이 그녀의 과거와 현재 그리고 미래의 접점을 드러낼 수 있는 지름길이라 판단하였다. 특히 순환되고 반복되는 이야기, 운명과 우연이 지배하는 이야기, 환상적 요소와 위반의 시도가 만나는 이야기의 특징을 중점적으로 분석하였다. 결과적으로 이애림 만화 서사는 보편적이고 항상성을 지닌 인간의 가장 본질적인 측면을 예외성이나 특수성, 기괴함으로 포장하여 제시함으로써 우리에게 새로운 방식으로 억눌린 욕망을 직시하라고 요구하고 있음을 파악할 수 있었다. 이애림이 지금까지 전위적·전방위적 작업을 지속해 온 이유는 역으로 우리 사회가 무엇을 억압하고 있는지를 설명한다. 이애림의 서사는 억눌린 욕망을 드러내는 데 그치지 않고 그것을 해소할 수 있는 예술의 순기능을 성실히 담당한다는 점에서도 의미가 있다. 이애림 만화 서사의 여러 맥락을 따져 세밀히 살핀 이 연구는 개별 작가의 독창적 가치에 의미를 부여해 한국 만화의 다양성 확보에 나선 것에 의의를 두고자 한다.