세계문학 번역과 근대성 세계적 정전에 대한 물음

윤지관 ( Ji Kwan Yoon ) 영미문학연구회 2011 영미문학연구 Vol.21 No.-

This essay attempts to understand a newly outburst publishing of world literary classics as forms of ``total collections`` in Korea in terms of late Korean and foreign discourses on world literature. While the first movements of translating and publishing world literatures, which arose and flourished in the 1960`s and 70`s, coincided with the accelerating modernization process of Korean society, its current second boom interestingly was triggered by the advent of a postmodern, globalized age. The recent projects of world literature translation and publication reveal some changes or developments: compared with the former ones, the lists of which accepted Eurocentric world literary classics, or rather an almost exact replica of its Japanese version at that. They reflect some trends of a ``critique of canon`` and include literary works from regional or cultural peripheries. This change still raises a fundamental question of whether it is a reaction against or for the overall crisis caused by a sweeping power of a globalized market. In this ambivalent situation, the idea of culture as a proper aim of reading world literature, should be reemphasized and reconsidered. A genuine significance of reading and publishing world literary classics collections can be enlivened when it contributes to a kind of cosmopolitan idea of culture which can be activated in national and regional dimensions.

영미문학연구회를 소개합니다

연구회자료 영미문학연구회 2005 안과 밖 Vol.19 No.-

제4회 영미문학연구회 신진논문상 응모 안내

연구회자료 영미문학연구회 2005 안과 밖 Vol.19 No.-

1867년 선거법 개정과 문학지식인 -조지 엘리어트와 매슈 아놀드

윤지관 ( Ji Kwan Yoon ) 영미문학연구회 2004 영미문학연구 Vol.6 No.-

As a way of thinking about the relationship between literary intellectuals and social reform, this essay reads in depth the responses of two mid-Victorian literary writers, George Eliot and Matthew Arnold, to the political reforms that culminated in the Second Reform Act in 1867. Eliot, through her Felix Holt, the Radical, tries to formulate a portrait of a genuine radical who devotes himself to educating working class people to live in dignity and responsibility. Her understanding and vision of the society revealed in the characterization of Felix Holt and especially in an essay added after finishing the main body of the novel, "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt" turns out to be deeply immersed in the kind of conservatism that prevailed among the middle classes at that time. She raises, however, a question of culture, an abiding topic of debate in Victorian England, more deeply delved into in Matthew Arnold`s work. In his Culture and Anarchy, Arnold establishes the idea of culture as an antidote to anarchy, the cause of which is the middle class`s worship of private liberty. Rejecting individualist liberalism as a source of Philistinism, Arnold instead looks towards the state as a source of order and authority. While being a universal human ideal, culture for Arnold is also quite specific to a nation. With this complex idea of culture, Arnold tries to cope with his society in the midst of political reform and envision its future.

스펙터클의 문학적 활용: 디킨즈의 『크리스마스 캐럴』

성은애 영미문학연구회 2011 영미문학연구 Vol.21 No.-

This paper proposes to examine how Charles Dickens, as a “visualizing genius,” adopted and appropriated the element of spectacle, to achieve apparently incompatible goals of commercial success and of education of his protagonist and his readers. It reviews some critical works on Dickens’s use of visual elements in his novels, especially in the field of cultural studies and film studies. Most of the analyses of the spectacles in his most successful Christmas story A Christmas Carol depend on the concept of spectacle elaborated by Guy Debord, ruling out the possibility of criticism and resistance on the part of the reader/audience, as Debord avers that spectacle presupposes and also incurs the alienation of the spectator and elimination of acting subject. This paper proceeds to show how Dickens transcribes visual spectacles into written form, how he maximizes the resources of Christmas spectacles to encourage his readers to act in real life, and how he tries to arrange the spectacles shown by the Christmas Ghosts to reveal the hidden reality of Victorian society which most of the middle class readers would look away. By questioning the ruling ideology of utilitarianism and its lack of sympathy and respect for the people, Dickens proves that spectacle, as a double-edged sword, can be utilized both in enforcing and justifying the status quo and in making cracks from the inside of that status quo at the same time.

영미문학연구회를 소개합니다

연구회자료 영미문학연구회 2004 안과 밖 Vol.17 No.-

인문전산학과 문학연구: 소략한 개관

박찬길 ( Chan Kil Park ) 영미문학연구회 2007 영미문학연구 Vol.12 No.-

This paper aims at examining the emerging academic discipline called "humanities computing" particularly in regard to the literary studies that finds itself within a strange cultural environment of new media. The first part is a general survey of the origin and the subsequent developments of humanities computing beginning from Roberto Busa`s concordance of Thomas Aquinas, which is followed by a critical discussion of Willard McCathy`s definition. John Unsworth`s theoretical explanation of humanities computing as an academic discipline is also examined. The second part is a full-scale discussion of the hypertext theory in regard to its enormous impact upon the topography of traditional literary studies. The theories of hypertext are critically examined particularly regarding its positive or negative effects on the traditional literary scholarship. Ted Nelson`s famous definition, James Bolter`s classic idea of hypertextual "writing space," George Landow`s quick-witted summary of hypertext as a perfect embodiment of deconstructive textual theories are all discussed in detail. The conclusion is that the humanities computing`s contribution to the literary scholarship is real and substantial enough by any standard, but have not quite lived up to what some enthusiasts had claimed; humanities computing has been useful more as a technical assistance than as a whole new academic discipline so far. But humanities computing has done enough to present itself as the most feasible way available for humanities scholars to adapt themselves to the quickly evolving culture of information society

지난호 바로잡습니다 ( 영미문학연구회 2001 년 제 10 호 )

학회자료 영미문학연구회 2001 안과 밖 Vol.10 No.-

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새로운 영미문학사 쓰기의 가능성과 한계 -『영미문학의 길잡이』의 비판적 읽기

오길영 ( Gil Young Oh ) 영미문학연구회 2002 영미문학연구 Vol.2 No.-

The writing of an English literary history text requires, if any, not only the author(s)`s erudition in English literature but her own ``independent`` or ``singular`` perspective into the vast stream of literature history along with the social and cultural backgrounds. It is far from an easy job. For this reason, the recent publication of A New Guide to English Literary History is worthy of notice. The objectives of this book are truly ambitious enough to be summarized into three terms. First, what we may call a post-colonial approach or the authoring of ``against the grain`` calls our attention. A New Guide envisions a kind of post-colonial perspective on the old-fashioned tradition of the English literary history, on the one hand. On the other hand, this book justly concerns itself with the recent British or American scholarship of English literature tradition, carefully paying attention to the ``universal`` or ``objective`` aspects of literary studies. Second, A New Guide attempts to provide an introductory survey of English literary history not only to the professional English scholars but also to the common readers who are interested in English literature in general. It`s engagement with textual readability with a certain professional insights are easily captured both in its content and form. The third noticeable point is that this book appears as a long-termed and hard-working common project with much cooperation and mutual helps of the participating co-authors. Chances are, yet, that there remain such debatable issues and questionable points as the conflicting but provocative assesment of the (late) Romantic poets, Modernism, and the uniqueness of American romance and realism. These unresolved issues will deserve further detailed considerations from the Korean scholarship of English literary studies in immediate future.

영미문학연구회를 소개합니다

연구회자료 영미문학연구회 2005 안과 밖 Vol.18 No.-