존 스타인벡의 집단인 이론을 토마스 실리의 『꿀벌의 민주주의』로 분석하기

Joseph Yosup Kim 문학과환경학회 2015 문학과 환경 Vol.14 No.1

Analysis of John Steinbeck’s Group-Men Theory in Light of Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy Kim, Joseph-Yosup (Kunsan National University) John Steinbeck introduces and deals with a biological concept of “group-men” in his In Dubious Battle. There has been a number of research or related research on exploring Steinbeck’s group-men theory with fish’s collective intelligence (or stupidity) since the 1940s even before the publication of The Log from the Sea of Cortez. However, no one has attempted to analyze such theory with honeybee’s collective intelligence. This study aims to examine group-men theory portrayed in the novel with Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy. Embodying the group-men theory allows Steinbeck observe the working people as the subject of communal life rather than that of good and evil through Doc Burton’s eyes. Doc Burton is a representative figure of Steinbeck’s non-teleological thinking through whom Steinbeck examines the problems of the existence of humankind and the (im)possibility of reconciliation. Even though Mac takes a role of a scouting bee, he and the community of the working people have failed to minimize the leaders’ influence on the group. This eventually leads to the collapse of the community unlike those so-called harmonious and “democratic” groups of honeybees.

A Small Seed of Community Planted in the Midst of the California Dream Deferred in Of Mice and Men

Joseph Yosup Kim 미국소설학회 2014 미국소설 Vol.21 No.3

This paper aims to examine possibility of community in the midst of the California Dream deferred in Of Mice and Men in light of Michael Sandel’s liberal communitarian conception of the constitutive community. George and Lennie in the novel share a dream of owning land and running a farm together in which they appear to share the same, but impossible dream. Sandel warns those with the common “shared final ends” in the sense of sentimental community that their so-called community is still limitedly based on their individual desires and sentimental bonds. George and Lennie, however, do not look into the same direction in which the latter only wishes to raise rabbits with soft fur while depending on the former. What seems to be a sentimental community between them has not even started on the right foot. Lennie’s obsession with soft objects leads to the murder of Curley’s wife that eventually forces George to shoot him dead. Upon Lennie’s death, George’s California Dream seems to fade away or at least to be deferred momentarily. Steinbeck does not leave him alone at the end of the novel where he suggests a new friendship between George and Slim. As they walk up from the riverside to the highway, George’s once deferred California Dream is revived by possibility of community through Slim. Of Mice and Men could have been dismissed as a novel of sympathy towards a social misfit if Steinbeck left George alone upon Lennie’s death. Instead, he is planting a seed of community through George’s new comradeship with Slim who has revived George’s California Dream deferred.

7세의 예수를 찾아 떠나는 앤 라이스:잃어버린 유년기 시절의 예수를 찾아서

Joseph Yosup KIM 한국문학과종교학회 2015 한국문학과종교학회 국제학술대회 Vol.1 No.-

Teaching Economic Concepts Using American Novels: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden

Joseph Yosup Kim,최경미 한국영미문학교육학회 2015 영미문학교육 Vol.19 No.3

This article demonstrates how literature can portray different economic concepts and be used to teach such concepts in undergraduate economics and financial engineering courses. The authors examine John Steinbeck’s novels, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden in light of some economic concepts such as property rights, mass production, specialization, futures trading, and distribution of wealth. The authors argue that instructors can use novels to teach their students about the abovementioned economic concepts and students can benefit from reading novels and understand economic concepts in literature. The authors also present quantitative analysis using statistical methods such as Box and Whisker plot, Shapiro-Wilk test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and one-sample t-test by using R as a way for teachers to enable their students to quantify economic concepts from literature.

A Room of Her Own: Hong Ying on the Verge of Artistry and Pornography in K: The Art of Love

( Joseph Yosup Kim ) 한국제임스조이스학회 2015 제임스조이스저널 Vol.21 No.2

Hong Ying has received mixed reviews from critics on her 1999 novel, K whether it is an art work or pornographic novel. The aim of this paper is to examine the artistic nature of K based on valid criteria for a novel to be artistic. The Arabian Nights, a masterpiece fulfills several requirements to be an art work while using the motif of sexuality as an axis along with the motif of storytelling. Before Queen Scheherazade tells King Shahryar a story, they always make love. There are one thousand tales framed in the novel that Scheherazade presents to the king. Its author employs the motif of storytelling around the motif of sexuality into a piece of art. Hong Ying`s K shares similar artistic traits to The Arabian Nights where she uses the motif of sexuality along with the motifs of loneliness and storytelling to make it artistic. It is also a frame story where Julian and Lin serve as an author and a reader to each other. Hong Ying narrates the novel through an unfamiliar western man to achieve ‘defamiliarization’ and keeps her aesthetic distance from her characters in the novel. These literary attributes transcend K from a mere pornography to a work of artistry.

Analyzing Common Grounds between Michael Sandel’s Self-Understanding and John Steinbeck’s Reinterpretation of Timshel in East of Eden

KIM Joseph Yosup 한국문학과종교학회 2014 문학과종교 Vol.19 No.4

본 논문의 연구주제인 자유주의적 공동체주의자인 마이클 샌델의 자기이해 사상과 존 스타인벡의 팀쉘에 대한 재해석을 통한 자유의지 사상의 접점을 찾는 연구 혹은 관련 연구는 예가 많지 않다. 본 논문의 목적은 샌델의 자기이해 사상과 스타인벡의 자유의지 사상의 접점과 샌델의 자유주의적 공동체이론에 비추어 '에덴의 동쪽'에 드러나는 공동체의 필요성을 고찰하는 것이다. 스타인 벡과 샌델의 사상 사이의 접점으로 그들은 모두 개인의 선택의 중요성과 진정한 공동체의 필요성을 강조한다. 스타인벡은 샌델이 진정한 공동체라고 주장하는 ‘구성적 공동체’를 전제한다면 어느 누구라도 자유의지를 통해서 자기이해를 실현할 수 있음을 보여준다. There has hardly been any research or related research on exploring common grounds between a liberal communitarian, Michael Sandel’s self-understanding and John Steinbeck’s free will through his reinterpretation of timshel. The aim of this paper is to examine the necessity of community in East of Eden in light of common grounds between Sandel’s self-understanding and Steinbeck’s free will, and Sandel’s liberal communitarianism. They both emphasize the importance of an individual person’s choice and the necessity of a true community as common grounds. Given a true community or Sandel’s ‘constitutive community,’ Steinbeck presents a chance for anyone to realize self-understanding through one’s free will.

“I Always Destroy What I Love Most”: Julian Bell`s Romantic Failure

( Joseph Yosup Kim ),( Jung Kim ) 한국제임스조이스학회 2014 제임스조이스저널 Vol.20 No.2

The aim of this paper is to examine how Hong Ying and Susan Sellers sublimate Julian Bell’s spontaneous nature and what he destroy including people into artistic novels rather than biographies or memoirs in K: The Art of Love and Vanessa and Virginia. This research is significant for it serves as an example to show extended nature of Virginia Woolf studies. Through their imagination as authors, Hong Ying and Sellers have recycled Woolf to recreate or revive members of the Bloomsbury including her as vividly fictional characters. They keep a fictional gap or aesthetic distance and attempt ‘defamiliarization’ with their fictional characters in order to overcome the limits of biographies and memoirs. In Hong Ying’s case, she aligns a series of events in which Julian’s spontaneous nature continues to lead him to unfamiliar territories repeatedly. He initially leaves for China to evade his parents’ and the Bloomsbury’s influence. He falls in love with a Chinese woman named Lin, but cannot keep a monogamous relationship with her. He, then, escapes from a suicidal woman to the heart of the Chinese Revolution that is the beginning of his romantic failure. He is shocked by the bloody battlefield of the revolution and ironically decides to return to his initial point of romantic failure, Lin to deviate from the revolution. His immediate decision portrays his spontaneous nature and his act of returning to his initial romantic failure ruins his authenticity to the revolution. His repeated failure leads to another catastrophe that takes him to another revolution in the west. His continual pursuit of seeking his public self as an independent individual overcoming the influence of his parents’ generation drives him to destroy what he loves most including his precious life. Julian, who fails to surpass his parents’ reputation, is a paradigmatic romantic failure that assumes the burden and expectation of his parents’ generation. As he dies an untimely death, he has become a romantic failure and the greatest victim of the Bloomsbury at the same time.

Transformation of the Nineteenth Century American Writers’ Attitudes towards Nature

Kim, Joseph Yosup,Kim, Younghee 한국중앙영어영문학회 2020 영어영문학연구 Vol.62 No.2

The aim of this paper is to discover images of nature and its transformation in the nineteenth century American literature through Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature,” Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage. The early American settlers considered nature as an object to overcome and exploit for better humanity before the late eighteenth-century, which was the time for American writers and poets to begin expressing their emotions and sentiments in their poetry and novels. Indeed, American literature granted high regards and meanings on nature and the early nineteenth century may be considered as the renaissance period of American literature using nature as one of the main themes. Crane is indifferent, confrontational, and separated from nature rather than comforting humans in the dismal artificial environment of war, slaughter and death committed by humans. He does not overlook this side of nature, but conveys the situation to the reader as if it were the subjects of the photographs taken with the camera. The separation between man and nature that Crane accused not only exists in the American novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also dominates the consciousness of humans living in cities that are inherited in reality.

A Small Seed of Community Planted in the Midst of the California Dream Deferred in Of Mice and Men

( Joseph Yosup Kim ) 미국소설학회(구 한국호손학회) 2014 미국소설 Vol.21 No.3

This paper aims to examine possibility of community in the midst of the California Dream deferred in Of Mice and Men in light of Michael Sandel`s liberal communitarian conception of the constitutive community. George and Lennie in the novel share a dream of owning land and running a farm together in which they appear to share the same, but impossible dream. Sandel warns those with the common “shared final ends” in the sense of sentimental community that their so-called community is still limitedly based on their individual desires and sentimental bonds. George and Lennie, however, do not look into the same direction in which the latter only wishes to raise rabbits with soft fur while depending on the former. What seems to be a sentimental community between them has not even started on the right foot. Lennie`s obsession with soft objects leads to the murder of Curley`s wife that eventually forces George to shoot him dead. Upon Lennie`s death, George`s California Dream seems to fade away or at least to be deferred momentarily. Steinbeck does not leave him alone at the end of the novel where he suggests a new friendship between George and Slim. As they walk up from the riverside to the highway, George`s once deferred California Dream is revived by possibility of community through Slim. Of Mice and Men could have been dismissed as a novel of sympathy towards a social misfit if Steinbeck left George alone upon Lennie`s death. Instead, he is planting a seed of community through George`s new comradeship with Slim who has revived George`s California Dream deferred.

Discussion on “Religious Perspectives on Gender-based Violence in India” by James PONNIAH

Joseph Yosup KIM 한국문학과종교학회 2015 한국문학과종교학회 국제학술대회 Vol.1 No.-