영어권 문화연구소 2012 봄 정기 학술대회

동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2012 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 학술대회 발표집 Vol.1 No.1

일시: 2012년 4월 14일(토) 장소: 동국대학교 다향관 세미나실 주제: 연극과 정치성

크리스토퍼 놀란의 ≪인터스텔라≫에 나타난 현대 이론물리학의 상보적 기능

김성규 ( Kim¸ Seong-gyu ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2017 영어권문화연구 Vol.10 No.3

The chief aim of my paper is to analyze Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and how modern theoretical physics influences its narrative. The narrative of Interstellar is based on firmly proved theories of physics and possible hypothesis, and the counterparts of the physical theories are non-rational thoughts of the characters. This kind of relationship effectively shows how the physical rationality and non-rational thoughts are necessarily mingling in the cosmic events. This is why we only can read various functions of Interstellar with interdisciplinary aspects. By approaching modern theoretical physics and literary aspects, I would like to find out that solving the secret of Gravity, which is the first power of the cosmos, is deeply related with solving characters’ conflicts and apocalyptic crisis. By this sort of reading proves that Interstellar leads us a new prospect that convergence between modern theoretical physics and literature.

앨리스의 모험: 『이상한 나라의 앨리스』에서 정동과 되기

김영호 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2022 영어권문화연구 Vol.15 No.2

This paper is to study Alice's adventure in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from the perspective of affect and becoming. Alice's becomings accompany the play of (non)sense according to the occurrence of the event. Alice takes a curious affective adventure in the wonderland after descending into the rabbit hole. In the wonderland Alice's adventures are developed, experiencing the breakdown of her identity through various ‘becomings’. This development can be explained by the concept of affect theory of Spinoza. In short, Spinoza's affect theory explains the variation of the body according to the intensity of Alice's adventures. Alice's becomings as affect are developed as three main features of language, time, and law. These three main concepts constitute an adventure that is fundamentally developed in Alice's 'becoming', namely, affective body becoming. In this context, Spinoza's affect is the logic of nonsense experienced in the adventure of the wonderland, and the breakdown of identity according to the sensual experience of time in pure form.

호모 사케르의 생명으로서 섯펜

김종갑 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2014 영어권문화연구 Vol.7 No.3

The purpose of the paper is to explore the image of Thomas Sutpen in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in the light of Agamben's Homo Sacer. According to Agamben, all human beings were divided into zoe and bios in Greece. Zoe is a living life in common with all living beings, whereas bios refers to a politically valuable life in polis. In the Deep South, Sutpen as a stranger would like to build a mansion, a grand design which may be a kind of revenge insulted by a negro slave at his youth. For Sutpen, the grand design is a way to become bios in Jefferson, but for other characters, Sutpen's image is close to zoe, such as a satan, a negro, a wild being. In this context, Sutpen wants to be a gentleman as a bios in Jefferson, but despite of his hope, still a bare life, a homo sacer. Charles Bon, who is a Sutpen's half-bleed son in West Indies, represents Sutpen's dilemma, which leads a valuable life to be respected by others, but never reaches to it. Bon is in a indiscernible area between zoe and bios for Sutpen and the people in Jefferson. Further, Jim Bond, Bon's brain- damaged son, fired the Sutpen's Hundred and his mumbling is not a voice and a logos but between both. Through Jim Bond, Faulkner would express the possibility which may be the new area between zoe and bios to be deconstructed the politically valuable life by the collective fantasies in Jefferson.

『인간의 오점』에 나타난 정화의 의미

현재연 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2017 영어권문화연구 Vol.10 No.3

The Human Stain by Philip Roth begins with the conversation between Oedipus in Oedipus the King and Creon. Oedipus is the cause of the plague that afflicts the city of Thebes. His inadvertent murder of a man, who was his father Laius, is the reason for the pestilence. After wandering around the land with his daughter, Oedipus suffers a miserable death which then purifies the city of Thebes. Setting the novel in 1998, at the time of the presidential sex scandal, Roth compares and contrasts the Puritanism of the prejudiced American politicians with narrow-mindedness and self-righteousness of the faculty at Athena college. Congress enacted the astringent rituals of purification by charging president Clinton of adultery and perjury, but even didn't make America safe and cozy enough to watch TV with ten-year-old daughter. Coleman Silk, the protagonist of the novel, is a classics professor who teaches Greek literature at Athena College. He is denounced as a racist for inadvertently calling two absent students “spooks” and is forced to retire. The crisis kills his wife Iris, causing him to lead a lonely life. Finally he dies along side the woman in love, Faunia Farley. His death, to my regret, contributes almost nothing to purity the conformities of Athena College and the city, in contrast to the purification brought by Oedipus's death. The Human Stain, criticizes the American persecuting spirit through Oedipus, Coleman and Clinton. Roth compares this spirit to the germs of disease that exert a fatal influence upon human life. He seems to maintain that the human stain is an attribute, an inherent property of humankind, not easily removed. Most likely he believes that a blind belief in the purity of human nature is nothing but a sweet illusion, a manifestation of folly.

다시 쓰는 영국사 : 안드레아 레비의 『작은 섬』에 나타난 ‘집’의 기억

이정화 ( Lee¸ Jung-hwa ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2020 영어권문화연구 Vol.13 No.3

Against the backdrop of the Windrush scandal in 2018, this essay examines the representation of the Windrush generation and the emergence of multicultural Britain in Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004). A historical novel, Small Island describes the arrival of the Windrush generation in 1948 and preceding events as recollected by four first-person narrators―a Jamaican immigrant couple and a white English couple. The essay analyzes the narratives of two male characters to juxtapose two different concepts of ‘home’ that serves as an allegory of the nation in Small Island. Levy’s novel foregrounds the intertwined history of colonialism and hybridization of home(land) through Gilbert’s narrative, which counters Bernard’s self-serving and self-contradictory narrative that, in favor of homogenous space, envisions the arrival of immigrants as a ‘cause’ of social problems. Hortense’s narrative, on the other hand, rewrites the male-centered history of twentieth-century Britain by bringing to the fore the role of Black female immigrants in the shaping of post-war Britain. In conclusion, Small Island rewrites the history of modern Britain in terms of gender as well as race by bringing together diverging memories of ‘home.’

Whitman’s American Experience and Democracy and Divine Literatus in Democratic Vistas

( Suh¸ Yun Kyo ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2018 영어권문화연구 Vol.11 No.1

Whitman gave a new order in the political turmoil and division of US society and continued to reflect on the realistic foundation with the utopian interest, such as the analysis of the self and the morality to be equipped to achieve the ideal of democracy ideally. His work Democratic Vistas is basically a reflection of ideal ideals and a new search. After experiencing the Civil War as opposed to ideological early design work, he presents ideas and cultural programs that he urgently needs to turn the United States into a new nation and turn the public into a new humanoid type. In this work he presents the three stages of the present America as an ideal nation, in its own terms the New World. According to him, 1. the establishment of a ‘political foundation’ 2. the realization of material prosperity 3. the gradual rise of religious democracy. Divine Literature to him was not only his concrete solution for American democracy but America's final hope for enacting communication between Body and Soul. He emphasizes Personalism as the basic principle of democracy. In addition, human beings and gods are one person, discovering the identity of God and humanity through human beings, and such assertion asserts consciousness of divine reality.

엔트로피에서 맥스웰의 도깨비로 : 토마스 핀천의 『제49호 품목의 경매』 속 닫힌 세계로서의 미국과 실존적 탈주 가능성 연구

김대중 ( Kim¸ Dae-joong ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2017 영어권문화연구 Vol.10 No.1

This paper aims to find the meaning of closed society and possibility of Oedipa's existential escape in The Crying of Lot49 written by Thomas Pynchon. This paper first delves into factors of ‘Americaness’ as Pierce's inheritance―the military-industrial complex, cultural cynicism, media-dominating culture that dominated 1960s' America with the theoretical scaffoldings such as Jean Baudrillard's theories especially focusing on his ideas of simulation and hyperreality as the cultural illusion. This paper then traces Oedipa's quest to find a way to resist America as closed society where entropy becomes a dominant metaphor of its catastrophe through prying into Tristero which aims to insidiously rebel against totalitarian control of hegemonic Americaness. Yet Oedipa gets frustrated after finding out that Tristero is in fact a hidden apparatus of Pierce's inheritance. But Oedipa finally arrives at a third way to overcome nihilism brought about by her frustration by being awaken up to her own consciousness as outsider and finding meanings of existential choice and communication. This paper suggests that the opening ending of the novel can trigger bigger questions about the existential realm of humanity that the novel is seeking.

『아낌없이 주는 두올리티』와 『영점에 선 여자』를 통해 본 제3세계 여성의 페미니즘 연구

차영옥 ( Cha¸ Young-ok ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2011 영어권문화연구 Vol.4 No.1

This paper explores the possibility of finding intersections of commonness and differences between Nawal al-Sadawi who is a prominent Egyption writer, Woman at Point Zero and Mahasweta Devi who is Indian writer in postcolonial period, Douloti the Bountiful. In Woman at Point Zero, the heroine as a prostitute is a model of Arab women who are oppressed and exploited by the male authority, driven to despair. The heroine's anger and disgust toward men extend to society which keeps the patriarchal values. She tries to obtain freedom and to converse the power relations by controlling her body. The act of killing one of men constitutes the climax of her struggle to gain control over herself. In Douloti the Bountiful, Douloti, the story of a tribal woman sold into bonded labor as a prostitute to a wealthy landowner, also relies on a central metaphor: as the tubercular Douloti collapses dead on the way to a hospital. She happens to fall on a concrete map of India, into which the Indian flag will be planted in celebration of Independence Day. Unlike women in developed countries, women of the third world have been suffering from patriarchal system. Also they are suffering from double torture of lower class and the patriarchal society. These works are similar in terms of facing death by sacrificing their lives in the world of men's power aside from commonness that the main character in this work is the prostitute of the third world like India and Egypt. However, these two works appear to describe the inner-self of the individual prostitute, but these works tell us the power of the male who is in authority among huge social groups that is existing behind that.

신화의 허구성과 다이아스포라

강민건 ( Kang¸ Mingun ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2009 영어권문화연구 Vol.2 No.2

Motivated with thinking of a new literary theory so called diaspora, the purpose of this paper is to explore Heaney's postcolonial writing as he misreads the myth in decolonized Ireland. The relationship between the decolonial discourse and diasporic theory is riding on a current issue in writings. I assume that a growing interest among readers reflects this prevailing term for his work. His writing method and idea owe more to diasporic attitude in the respect that he subverts the established Irish myth. Heaney has been witnessed historical moments of Irish reality so he broke the fabricating historical myth. Heaney explored the traditional literature in Ireland, characterized by the effects of the experience of colonization and a sense of intellectual and spiritual deprivation. By way of this historical experience of authentic decolonization of his mother land, Heaney's writing became, more and more, politicized against the crisis which the repressive force of imperialism caused to occur. Under this traumatic disasters of Ireland, Heaney's poetic quest makes him the practical struggle against the colonial power in a poetic way. And he creates a new decolonial place. It could be said that the poet attitude like that is diasporic writing as a new writing one.