• 영어영문학
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.107-127
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• 2011

Don DeLillo has shown considerable interest in terror, frequently depicting extreme dread of something terrible to happen, in his literary texts. Since more than three thousand innocent people in New York were killed by the 9-11 terrorist attack in 2001, the anticipation about what kind of fiction he would write as a New Yorker was high. DeLillo's novel Falling Man (2007) in fragmentary detail represents the scene of the terrorism from the perspective of Keith Neudecker, a lawyer who escapes the collapsing world trader center. Neudecker's post-traumatic stress disorder in the first chapter is followed by the free-associative portrayal of various impacts of the 9-11 terror on Neudecker's wife Lienne in the second chapter. The random mixture of the first person narratives from such diverse view-point characters as Neudecker's son Justin, relatives and friends, with dialogues and recollections yields a very close picture of the consequences of terrorism. Reading DeLillo's Falling Man in juxtaposition with a Japanese Canadian novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, reminiscences of the maltreatment of Japanese Canadians during and after the second world war, surfaces the authorial intention of the two novels. They as trauma literature emerge to aim at curing the readers and proposing post-traumatic ethics. Laurie Vickroy's theory of trauma narrative and cure, E. Ann Kaplan's theory of trauma witness narrative and responsibility, and Emmanuel Levinas's theory of trauma memory and ethics offer theoretical grounds for the convincing analysis of the two texts.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.83-105
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• 2009

Modern poetry begins as criticism of modernity and, by so doing, rejects its idea of time. Modernity emphasizes sequential, linear, and irreversible time and progress. Williams rejects the modern view of time, and attempts to substitute literature for history assuming that literature can take us into the immediacy of time. His poetry asserts the true moment of experience as an immediacy, of words co-existent with things. He suggests that modernity and its idea of time already led to World War I and could clearly lead to an actual, manmade apocalypse with continued technological progress. Already in the 1920s, Williams sensed that he was living in a world where such an end could come all true, which is why Spring and All, his greatest early achievement, begins with a parody of the modern apocalypse. Throughout the work, Williams criticizes "crude symbolism" and expresses his longing to annihilate "strained associations," for he believes that the metaphoric or symbolic association is related to order, the center, and the traditional concept of time itself. The metonymic model of Spring and All substitutes a self-reflexive, open-ended, and indeterminate structure of time for the linear and closed one. Instead of supplying an end, Williams only asserts the rebirth of time and attempts to arrive at immediacy while attacking the mediacy of traditional art. His characteristic use of fragmentation and abrupt juxtapositions disrupts the reader's generic, conceptual, syntactic, and grammatical expectations. His radical poetic experiments, such as the isolation of words and the disruption of syntax, produce a sense of immediacy and force the reader to confront the presence of the poem. His destruction of traditional forms, of the tyrannous designs of history and time, opens up rather than closes the possibility of signification, and takes us into a moment of beginning while disallowing temporal distancing. Spring and All, as a criticism of the modern idea of time, asks us to view Williams's work not as an ahistorical text but as a cultural subversion of modernity.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.579-597
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• 2008

This article discusses David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly as a suggestive text for examining Western masculinity in crisis in the post-imperialist age, in which territorial imperialism is no longer valid. Previous scholarship on M. Butterfly has centered around the interlocking dynamics of imperialism, racism and sexism. Such critical attentions focus on how Hwang deconstructs racialized significations of the East and the West. In these discussions, the issue of gender is often addressed merely as a trope to represent the power relations between the East and the West. As such, gender as well as sexuality is highlighted as the very source of subversion of the power relations. My discussion departs from a critique of the gendered trope of the East and the West, highlighting a postmodern agent, the allegedly feminized character Song Lining: a Chinese actor who passes for a woman for political purposes in postcolonial China. Remaining an "inappropriate/d other" in the gendered imperialist discourse, Song becomes an emergent subject, who is capable of playing gender ambiguity for reclaiming a devalued identity, that of homosexual Asian man. Discussing how the central character Rene Gallimard's masculine identity is constructed in a cross-cultural space and how it evolves, I also argue that Gallimard's melancholic death signifies a historical unsustainability of imperialist masculinity in the postmodern/postcolonial age since World War II.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.347-378
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• 2012

Holocaust fiction has always raised the moral and aesthetic questions about the nature of mimesis and the literary representation of atrocity. The Holocaust, defying any representation of it, has been considered as unspeakable, unknowable, and incomprehensible. This essay aims to explore Martin Amis's narrative strategies in Time's Arrow to conduct the difficult tasks of re-creating the primal scene and of discovering a moral reality behind the Holocaust. One of the major narrative experiments in Time's Arrow is the time reversal: the story moves from the present of phony innocence to the past of unrelieved horror. Reversing the temporal order of events reverses causality and generates the revision of the morality, ultimately creating the epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Amis's novel is also narrated from the perspective of a double persona of the protagonist who, as a Nazi doctor, participated in the massacre in Auschwitz and then fled to the United States following the war. As almost a self-conscious storyteller, the narrator shares a sense of retrospective guilt with the reader who finally realizes that the Holocaust was a world turned upside down morally. Amis's postmodern narrative strategies are unusual enough to warrant a new way of representing the Holocaust.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.393-403
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• 2007

This study presents the food culture as analysis food material, food and cooking tools in the novel literature and examines the food as a code of current cluture of common social through five Pansori texts among the twelve Pansori texts into written form. It is a many Pansori, but this study is analysed to select early copying papers. It can be found rice, Kimchi, salted fish as the common people food in Simchong-ga text. It can be known characteristics of Jeolla-do Area food used many food material and acceptance of foreign crops in the late period of the Chosun in Chunhyang-ga text. In Hungbo-ga text, it can be found the popularity food is rice cake and meat and looked the special feature of dog meat, rice cake, scorched rice-tea. In Toebyol-ga text, it can be looked many sea food and medicine beverages, and in Chokpyok-ga text, it can be found peculiarity of drink for making excitement during a war. Moreover, in five Pansori texts, that is seemed characteristics such as cover of tableware, spoon and chopsticks, tableware china, a cauldron, a charcoal burner, a brass chafing dish, a table, a flail and a mill.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1339-1360
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• 2010

An analogical reading of socio-historical context of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker employs some postcolonial discursive analyses of postimperial British capitalistic interests in their post war reconstruction. It is also concerned with causes of so-called broken society. The Caretaker dramatizes minimal actions: a tramp is invited by the elder brother; a job as caretaker is offered; he is reluctant to accept the first offer by the elder brother, but is willing to the second by the younger; eventually, he is excluded because he makes noises while dreaming. These trivial actions produce serious and critical speech acts with their socio-historical implications. The tramp Davies is socially and thereby existentially excluded from the centre of the cold, banished to even colder peripheries. The audience face to the question. Why is Davies excluded? This study tries to answer the question, uncovering deep-rooted capitalistic racism, and reading its symptoms. Even after 50 years The Caretaker was staged, post-imperial broken society tries to operate the betrayals of disparity between the cause and effect of what has gone wrong. Pinter confirms that the action of the play takes place in a house in west London. With the city of London as its capitalistic centre, British imperialism lavished much of its wealth which has only served sectional interests dividing people against themselves. Pinter dramatizes the root of broken society. On the one hand, Pinter foregrounds the very general conflicts between individuals and forms of power; on the other hand, he underlies the very specific strategies of socio-historical exploitation, domination and exclusion.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.975-999
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• 2012

This paper interrogates what a new point Schmitt shows concerning the problem of sovereignty in Hamlet or Hecuba in comparison with his Political Theology. Schmitt reveals his political stand on sovereignty through ‘political representation’ that connects the politics to the aesthetics in Hamlet or Hecuba since Hamlet is above all aesthetic work as play. He stresses the determining effect of political reality over the play as he links the story of Hamlet to the tragic family of James I and the religious conflicts of the Stuart dynasty. This leads to, on the one hand, supporting the myth of absolute sovereignty by elevating Hamlet to the transcendental and the exceptional status of sovereign. However, Schmitt’s intent over the absolute sovereignty is, on the other hand, demolished with the two shadows that he scrutinized through the couple of Hamlet and James I: first, the suspect that Gertrude(Mary Stuart) was involved in the murder of Hamlet(James I)’s father, and second, the century’s conflicts with religious reformation and civil war. The perils of sovereignty are manifested not only in these two, “the taboo of the Queen,” and “the Hamletization of the avenger.” It is most of all evidenced in Hamlet itself that subverts the unconditional sovereignty consistently. Hamlet’s selfreflective remarks likening the king to the beggar and the reality of Denmark succession prove that Hamlet’s political discourse is totally different from the politics that accentuates the divine sovereignty.

• 한국시조학회지:시조학논총
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• 제22집
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• pp.57-83
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• 2005

이 논문은 국문학자인 고정옥의 저서 $\lceil$고장시조선주$\rfloor$를 검토하여, 그것의 특징과 문학사적 중요성을 자리매김하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 그동안 고정옥은 한국전쟁의 와중에서 월북했다는 이유로, 오랫동안 한국문학사에서 제대로 다루어지지 않았다. 이는 국문학 연구자들에게도 마찬가지로, 그의 저서들은 아직까지 제대로 소개되지 못한 것이 엄연한 현실이다. 그러나 이제라도 고정옥과 그의 저서들에 대해 체계적인 연구가 이루어져야 하며, 국문학 연구사에서도 그의 연구 업적에 걸맞는 평가가 내려져야 할 것이다. 본고는 이러한 관점에서 그의 저서인 $\lceil$고장시조선주$\rfloor$를 통해서 그의 문학적성과를 다루고자 한다. 고정옥이 '장시조'라 칭한 사설시조는 조선 후기문학사를 해명하는데 매우 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있는 갈래이다. 그는 이 책에서 사설시조 50수를 뽑아 주석을 붙이고 작품의 분석을 시도하였다. 이와 더불어 당시로서는 독창적인 사설시조에 대한 이론을 제출하기도 하였다. 여기에서는 $\lceil$고장시조선주$\rfloor$와 다른 저서들에 드러난 고전 시가에 대한 그의 인식을 살펴보고, 특히 '장시조'에 대한 이론이 어떤 특징을 지니고 있는가를 검토하기로 한다. 이런 과정을 통해서 그의 문학관이 자연스럽게 밝혀질 수 있을 것으로 본다. 또한 주석과 함께 소개되어 있는 작품 분석을 검토함으로써, 구체적인 작품 해석의 면모를 살펴볼 수도 있을 것이다. 이런 작업을 통하여, 고전시가에 대한 그의 관점을 보다 정밀하게 검토할 수 있는 단서가 될 수 있을 것이라 기대한다.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.279-302
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• 2019

이 글은 유영주(Youngju Ryu)의 『겨울 공화국의 작가: 박정희 시대 한국의 문학과 저항』(Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea)의 내용을 소개하고, 이의 의의와 한계를 고찰하고자 한다. 이 책은 박정희 유신 시대의 문학과 정치의 관계를, 양성우, 김지하, 이문구, 조세희, 황석영을 중심으로 고찰하고 있다. 냉전 시대 미국 헤게모니와 박정희 정권의 관계를 조망하면서, 이를 바탕으로 양성우, 김지하 등 시인은 시, 재판기록, 회고록 등을 바탕으로 이들이 어떻게 박정희 정권에 대항했는지를 밝히고, 이문구 등의 소설가는 이들의 소설이 '이웃'이라는 키워드를 바탕으로 어떻게 박정희 정권에 대항하는 공동체를 상상했는지를 서술한다. 이는 박정희 시대의 문학이 어떻게 정권에 대항하는 최전선에 설 수 있었는지를 서술한다는 점에서 유의미하다. 그러나 영웅 서사로 이들의 문학과 삶을 다루면서, 다소 평면적으로 이들의 삶과 문학이 조명되고, 특히 이문구 등의 소설가들의 삶과 문학은 2000년대 이후까지 연속적으로 다루어지는 반면 양성우와 김지하의 2000년대에 대해서는 침묵하고 있다는 점은 아쉽다. 더 나아가 1970년대 문학과 정치의 관계를 남성의, 남성에 의한, 남성에 대(항)한 문학으로만 조명하고, 이를 오늘날 박민규와 연결시킨다는 점에서 '정치'에 대한 다소 협소한 규정과 여성 작가들이 전혀 언급되지 않은 것이 아쉽다. 종합적으로 이 책은 한국 1970년대의 한국문학과 정치의 관계를 풍부한 자료와 아름다운 문체로 소개하는 것은 물론, 한국의 한국학 연구자들에게 앞으로 한국학이 나아갈 길에 대해서 성찰하게 한다는 점에서 매우 유의미하다.

• Journal of Korean Dental Science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2013

The proper management of mandibular fractures involves reduction, rigid fixation, and immobilization to allow bone healing. Nonunion or malunion at the fractured sites is a well-known complication of fracture when the treatments are inappropriate. We present a case of left mandibular fracture due to shrapnel during the Korean War. The patients did not receive appropriate treatment at that time, so nonunion and malunion developed. Sixty years after the accident, mandibular osteomyelitis on the fracture site developed due to dental-origin inflammation. The treatment was based on relatively conservative care, such as saucerization and administration of antibiotics. There was no complication during the short-term follow-up. We present the case with literature review.