The Postcolonial Cultural Hybridity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Lee, Seongjin(Chonnam National University) In Midnights Children(1981), Ahmed Salman Rushdie represents the complex condition, the aftermath of colonial condition in India At that time, Indian people desire to forget the colonial past and to build a new postcolonial identity or nation In..
Subcategoization of English adverbials and their Semantic Representation Park, Tae-gyu(Nambu University) The purpose of this paper is to explore the subcategorization of adverbials There are two syntactic category of adverbs such as predicate adverbs and sentential adverbs However, it is not enough to classify all the adverbs into two categories, because some semantics..
Virginia Woolf and Post Humanism Im-Soo Ahn (Kwandong University) Virginia Woolf has been spotlighted recently as the god-mother of feminism It is true that she has affirmed womans rights in saying that they must be extended beyond household affairs and that women should share the same social status as men Her novels continuously demand new ways of appreciation One of tho..
The West as a Metaphor and Brotherly Love A Reading of Cooper’s The Pioneers Hui-Sok Yoo (Jeonnam National Univ) The West in 19th century American literature has been embodied as a contradictory space-time It is a material background that paves the way for Manifest Destiny disguised in the name of Progress On the other hand, it is a spiritual place in which a brotherly..
Post-Colonial Discourses toward Cultural Independence A Study on the 19th Century American Writers Hong-Pil Lee (Chonnam National Univ) In the 19th century America, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman were the pioneers of cultural independence of America from Europe It was Emerson that started to discuss the necessity of cultural independence, critical acceptance ..
Text As a Theater Not I Hyun-Seok Pyo (Chonnam National University) This study is to investigate what makes a play be a theater itself from Becketts play, Not I There are usually four ingredients for a theater play, space, character, audience In order for a play to become a theater, therefore, the play has all the factors in it As a performance based a play needs a stage(s..
The Possibility and Limitations of the Communication of Individual Consciousness in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse Nah, Heekyung(Chonnam National Univ) In Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf explores the possibility and limitations of a complete communication of individual consciousness Such main characters of the two novels as Mrs Dalloway and L..