19세기 미국의 문학지식인과 대중문화: 휘트먼의 민주주의의 전망 과 연관하여

유희석 ( Hui Sok Yoo ) 영미문학연구회 2007 영미문학연구 Vol.13 No.-

With the advent of globalization it is commonplace to hear that a geoculture that everyone shares finally comes to be realized. But it is equally easily argued that the geoculture itself is contaminated by the gobbling capital; homogenizing commercial culture symbolized by the Macdonald erodes the very foundation of Rabelaisean culture. These contradictory voices compel us to think over the role of literary intellectuals in shaping the common culture as a genuine public sphere which is neither of the two mentioned above, geoculture and Rabelaisean culture; the one is too vulnerable to the onset of commercialization leading to the mass culture while the other is no less inclined to the pitfalls of the vicious circle of binary opposites, the highbrow vs. the lowbrow. This paper purports to read W. Whitman`s post-bellum essay "Democratic Vistas" keeping in mind the dialectical tension of the literary intellectuals in 19th century America and its reading culture. Whitman`s argument against the general deterioration of spiritual conditions in America signally termed as ``the Gilded Age`` offers us opportunities to muse on the possibility of the common culture as a desirable public sphere. His total vindication for the vocation of (national) literature as well as the positive role of literary intellectuals in engaging with consuming culture is one of the guideposts to the horizon of ensemble-Individuality.

영문학은 무엇으로 공부하나? -영미문학연구회 엮음 『영미문학의 길잡이』1.2(창작과 비평사 2001)-

이윤성 영미문학연구회 2002 안과 밖 Vol.12 No.-

영미문학연구회 미국문학 분과 기획논문에 부쳐

유희석 영미문학연구회 2009 영미문학연구 Vol.17 No.-

『황금색 공책』과 공감의 문학성

권영희 ( Younghee Kwon ) 영미문학연구회 2017 영미문학연구 Vol.33 No.-

Drawing on recent empathy studies, this essay aims to rethink the vexed relation between empathy and literature, so as to find a more solid basis of ethical potential for literature than the humanist defence of literary imagination as a key enhancer of empathy. Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie’s stricter definition of empathy is noteworthy in this regard, as they distinguish a set of similar emotional states such as emotional contagion, identification, perspective-taking, and sympathy from empathy proper. Referencing their view, I examine Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and highlight the double workings of empathic connection and dissociation. The novel explores negative effects of feminine hyper-empathy along with ideological implications of narrative empathy. Further, its meta-fictional aspects demonstrate the literariness of empathy; as an emotive-cognitive process, it takes place when the subject aptly characterizes the object and takes his or her perspective, while keeping intact the self-other boundary, thereby performing an act of genuine understanding. I relate this dimension to Judith Jordan’s notion of retrospective self-empathy. Anna’s fictional doubles function as the experiencing self, the authorial Anna playing the role of the observing self. This leads to a higher plane of self-empathy and empathic understanding of the other.

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.

태평양 탈식민주의문학의 한 가능성: [와이푸나의 파수꾼과 다른 단편들]

김영미,이명호 영미문학연구회 2010 안과 밖 Vol.0 No.29

인문대를 해체하라! -“전공인문학”에서 “교양인문학”으로

송승철 ( Seung Cheol Song ) 영미문학연구회 2013 안과 밖 Vol.0 No.34

This article is aimed to work out practical alternatives to improve the liberal arts education from the perspective of a practitioner in the humanities. The liberal arts education as well as the humanities has long been said to be sidelined in the Korean higher education system due to its exclusive emphasis on the departmental structure and professional education. Recently. However, with some changes to global economy, the humanities has been called from its status of an object of crisis to become a creative source for the production of economic profits. Some scholars in the humanities welcome this resuscitation as a great chance to save their practices from a denigration of outdated impracticality, while others are more suspectful of the possibility that their hard-won truth may be capitalized on by the greedy global economic corporations. Tracing, first, more than a century of history of the humanities from Matthew Arnold, through F.R. Leavis to the current dominance of Theory, and then, the half-century history of the liberal arts education since its inception up to now in the Korean higher education, the article shows its practitioners tend to have reinforced specialization in its competition with the social and natural sciences, with a consequence that they have been increasingly secluded from the popular interests of the masses and have been increasingly secluded from the popular interests of the masses and have restricted communication only to themselves of the masses and have restricted communication only to themselves increasingly with highly abstract jargons. Arguing that specialization has been for the most large part responsible for the current crisis of the liberal arts eduction in most of the Korean universities, this article comes up with some practical, even radical, alternatives, including disbanding the college of humanities, to bring the liberal arts education onto the center of higher educational system.

문학과 문학사: 역사주의와 문학의 역사

이상섭 ( Sang Sup Lee ) 영미문학연구회 2002 안과 밖 Vol.13 No.-

영미문학연구회를 소개합니다

연구회자료 영미문학연구회 2005 안과 밖 Vol.18 No.-

제4회 영미문학연구회 신진논문상 응모 안내

연구회자료 영미문학연구회 2006 안과 밖 Vol.0 No.20