미국인의 종교와 종교의식

성경준 韓國外國語大學校 外國學綜合硏究센터 歷史文化硏究所 1999 역사문화연구 Vol.10 No.-

미국 문학 교육의 방향성과 그 사례 연구

성경준 한국외국어대학교 외국학종합연구센터 북미연구소 2002 영미연구 Vol.8 No.-

This essay aims to explore the new direction of American literature education and investigate how the teachers of American literature can achieve this direction effectively. I present my American Novel class as a case study and examine several issues and problems teachers might be faced with while teaching. For this purpose. I interrogate my syllabus and teaching methodologies including the use of film and the topics of the class. Especially I discuss Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Bernard Malamud's "Magic Barrel" to show my teaching methods specifically. Through this discussion this article tries to show the new direction of American literature education to catch up with the changes of Korean universities and society.

Dynamics of Foucault's Subjectivity: The Enlightenment and His Ethos

성경준 한국영미문학교육학회 2006 영미문학교육 Vol.10 No.1

Abstract Dynamics of Foucault’s Subjectivity: The Enlightenment and His Ethos Kyungjun Sung Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Foucault’s conceptualization of the Enlightenment and subjectivity has been controversial in British and American literary classes. It could be said that this comes from the evolving and dynamic character of his thought because his theorizing reveals the vicissitudes of a tortuous and sometimes puzzling path. This article aims to investigate the dynamics of his subjectivity, examining especially his writings and interviews on the Enlightenment and Kant since the 1970s to improve the understanding of his subjectivity in British and American literary classes. This essay shows that although Foucauldian subjectivity is somewhat relevant to the Frankfurt School subjectivity, the one is different from the other in that Foucault rediscovers the ethos of transgression, i.e., "permanent critique of the present" and "a possible transgression of its limitations," when interrogating the Enlightenment and Kant. I also demonstrate that Foucault accepts the possibility of resistance and struggle against disciplinary technologies of power through this ethics. Foucault views the achievement of Kantian maturity as an attitude toward ourselves and the present which has to be translated into diverse archaeological and genealogical analysis. This article ultimately illustrates that Foucauldian subjectivity is far from Nietzschian nihilism, even though he is greatly indebted to Nietzsche for his genealogical method.

John Cotton’s Discrepancies: Theocracy and Individual Freedom

성경준 미국소설학회 2011 미국소설 Vol.18 No.3

John Cotton is regarded as the chief spokesman of the Massachusetts theocracy and probably its major architect. However, he was, on the other hand, looked upon by his contemporary fellow ministers as the mastermind of the Antinomian Controversy, which shattered the early puritan society. This essay aims to examine the discrepancies in his writings and sermons to investigate his conflicting theological ideas toward his contemporary theocratic order and individual freedom. This essay also explores how his trouble-making discourse became, in Foucault’s terms, immanent in the dominant discourse of the pastoral power. This interrogation ultimately illuminates the nature of puritan pastoral power and the relationship between individual freedom and societal control in early American society. His writings and sermons demonstrate that, until the Antinomian Controversy, the discourse of theocratic order and the discourse that can oppose it must have co-existed in Cotton. Yet, as pastoral power muted the Antinomians, it must have disciplined Cotton by excluding his trouble-making discourse. This process demonstrates how the dominant discourse of pastoral power disciplined subjects and how societal power constrained individual freedom. This essay also illustrates the meaning of this process both on the individual and social level.

최후의 모히칸족에 나타난 인종과 성,미국의 정체성 문제:텍스트와 영화의 비교

성경준 문학과영상학회 2002 문학과영상 Vol.3 No.1

미국의 정전들과 포스트모던 관점

성경준 한국외국어대학교 북미연구소 2000 영미연구 Vol.6 No.-

This essay attempts to re-examine some of American canons from postmodern viewpoint and, thereby, question their pre-established interpretations.In so doing, I aim to show how postmodern viewpoint can help us interrogate American canons from multiple point of view.For this purpose I analyse William Bradford's History Of Plymouth Plantation, Benjamin Franklin's The Autobiography, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar" and Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." The re-investigation of those canons in this essay ultimately shows us the hidden aspects of Puritanism, American Dream, American Individualism and Democracy.

존 코튼과 엔티노미언 논쟁 : 미국 초기 청교도 사회에 있어서 목회 권력의 형성과정 The Formative Process of Pastoral Power in Early Puritan Society

성경준 한국아메리카학회 1999 美國學論集 Vol.31 No.1

영미 소설 강의의 중요 쟁점과 사례 연구

성경준 한국외국어대학교 북미연구소 2003 영미연구 Vol.9 No.-

This essay aims to investigate some issues in British and American novel class and explore how the teachers of British American novel class can effectively conduct their teaching. For this purpose, I present some objectives of British and American novel class and examine several texts and methodologies I have used in my class. Especially this article tries to interrogate several topics and problems teachers might face while teaching British and American texts. This article emphasizes the use of film and the combination of three fields, i. e., teaching British and American novel, practical English, and area studies. I discuss Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Richard Wright's Native Son to specifically show me teaching methods. Through this discussion this article ultimately tries to demonstrate the new direction of British and American novel education to catch up with the current needs of Korean universities and society.

미국 문학 강의와 미국학

성경준 한국외국어대학교 북미연구소 2001 영미연구 Vol.7 No.-

This essay explores how teachers in the English department can teach American Studies in American literature class and, thereby investigates the new direction of American literature education. I present my Survey of American Literature class as a case study and examine several issues and problems teachers can be faced with while teaching. For this purpose, I interrogate my syllabus and teaching methodology including the class schedule and the selection of texts. especially I discuss William Bradford's Of Plymouth plantation and Benjamin Franklin's The Autobiography to show my teaching method specifically. Through this discussion this article aims to demonstrate the possibility of relating American literature class to the teaching of American Studies and to enhance students' interest in American literary texts.

마크 트웨인의 남부에 대한 태도와 모더니티의 문제

성경준 ( Kyung Jun Sung ) 근대 영미소설 학회 2004 근대 영미소설 Vol.11 No.2

This article aims to explore Twain`s attitude toward the South and its relationship with his conceptualization of modernity. For this purpose I examine four of Twain`s works, that is, "Old Times on the Mississippi," Life on the Mississippi, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain`s attitude toward the South is ambivalent and complicated. Twain`s South in "Old Times on the Mississippi" and before his trip to the Mississippi Valley is a "pristine paradise" in his imagination. Twain portrays the South as a peaceful and beautiful hometown. Yet Life on the Mississippi is teeming with his diatribes against the South and Southerners. I relate this changed attitude to his containment in modernity. When he visited the South in 1882 he was a modern Hartfordian ill prepared for his home-coming. Thus the backward state of the South first captured his eyes and destroyed the antibellum Eden in his illusion. I also interrogate his representation of cities in Life on the Mississippi to demonstrate his transformed attitude toward the South and his containment in modernity. He acclaims modem cities and derides the backwardness of the South in the work, which can be regarded as the indicator of his containment in modernity. In the last part, this article investigates the representation of Tom in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. to examine how his changed attitude toward the South influences the creation of the latter. My essay demonstrates that Tom is the representation of postbellum Southern ruling class which is still contained in backward antebellum Southern ideology. I also try to show that the evasion section is Twain`s satire of postbeIIum backward South.