2013, Vol.6, No.3

Ironic Gifts of Death and Life: A Somewhat Fictive Account

Horace Jeffery HODGES | 2013, 6(3) | pp.5~21 | number of Cited : 0

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Succeeding or Overcoming Father: Two Ideas on American Cities in Death of a Salesman and Fences

Youngbin HYEON | 2013, 6(3) | pp.23~54 | number of Cited : 0

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The Impetus and Aspects of Modern Translation in Korea: Focusing on The Ewha

So–Young KANG , Jung–Hwa YUN | 2013, 6(3) | pp.55~86 | number of Cited : 0

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The Modern Period in Korea started with the introduction of literary translation. Studies and research on translation work of the 1930s, however, omits the contribution of women translators. A closer analysis of The Ewha, even though a college publication, is very important in the history of literary translation by women in Korea. This paper attempts to discover the inner desires of Ewha College students who, through increasing access to foreign publications during their time at Ewha College have gained access to not just other languages but were able to get closer to these cultures by translating these works themselves in their own language. Translation courses were rigidly conducted as part of the curriculum and colonial rule. Ewha students were taught not only by foreign professors but also by Korean professors who had studied abroad. We can infer that their teachings sought to give more diversity in expression during the translation process. After graduation, many Ewha graduates published their translations in Korean newspapers and magazines, a result of the modern translation courses offered at Ewha College. Other Ewha graduates moved on to be creative writers, building on and successfully depicting their knowledge of the Western world they had acquired through their education. In conclusion, during the colonial period where male writers were the main contributors to all publications, publishing translations in The Ewha was a way for female students and writers to express themselves and also gain social acknowledgement. This study will attempt to state that the translation courses along with publications in The Ewha have played a central role in paving women’s way in society, as well as expressing the female intellectuals’ inner selves and female desires as they encountered knowledge of the Western world.

Intellectual Itinerary of Choi Ik–han in Early 20th Century Korea and Formation of the Modern Knowledge Subject

KIM Nam-yi | 2013, 6(3) | pp.87~117 | number of Cited : 0

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Choi Ik–han was an expert on almost all traditional and new reasoning systems that the intellectuals of the 1920–1930s colonized Joseon went through, or were passionate about. In particular, he is a clear example to show how an intellectual with knowledge of the past, symbolized in the form of Chinese ideograms, formed a new world of knowledge by experiencing a new outside world. This thesis focuses on such characteristics of Choi Ik–han to see his intellectual path and turning points in three dimensions so that we can discover the forming process of a modern body of knowledge and the dynamic possibility of the process. Moreover, this thesis suggests that translation was utilized as an important principle and practice so that a new knowledge base could be formed. This is what’s commonly found in the translations of that era, including Choi Ik–han’s. However, the act of translating (acceptance of culture) was not a unilateral and unconditional acceptance from Western empires, as the starting point of the modern civilization, to an Eastern colony. Such qualities were equally applied to Choi Ik–han’s translation (comprehension) of the traditions within Joseon. In other words, Choi Ik–han transferred “disposed and deniable traditional” assets into the new modern intellectual system that he was facing so that he could secure prospects in the future in the system. In this case, tradition doesn’t have an idolized authority but becomes an object that can be summoned in the specific aim to fulfill the necessities of my (people’s/reality’s) current self. His intellectual moves clearly prove the dynamic and generating power that overpowers the unilateral conveyance from the West to East, or any sharp severance between the medieval period and modern times, which have been made in the process of forming a new type of knowledge of Korea as a civilization in transition.

Translation and Formation of Style in the Modern Japanese Novel

KOMORI Yoichi | 2013, 6(3) | pp.119~131 | number of Cited : 0

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“Local” Hybridity and the “Translocal” Identities of Korean Subalterns and Asian Migrant Workers: Looking at the South Korean Film, Banga, Banga!

Heasook TAE | 2013, 6(3) | pp.133~155 | number of Cited : 2

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Translating Darwin’s Metaphors in East Asia

Il Mo YANG | 2013, 6(3) | pp.157~178 | number of Cited : 0

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In this essay, I aim to analyze the process of translating Charles Darwin’s language to Chinese or Japanese Kanji, and also to contemplate on the usage and the newly attached meanings of the translated language of evolutionism in East Asia. To this end, I begin to trace Chinese and Japanese documents, including the papers and the magazines and some translated books which introduced evolutionary theory as scientific knowledge for the first time, published during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. As Darwin’s metaphorical expressions were given a more specific meaning through Japanese kanji by scholars such as Hiroyuki Kato, their role as a “theory” of evolution exploring the origin of life form was less recognized, and instead emphasis was placed on “evolutionism” which justified the power struggles between the strong and the weak. Second, I compare two Chinese translations of the European theory of evolution. One is Yan Fu’s direct translation of Thomas Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics, and the other is the first Chinese translation of Darwin’s Origin of Species based on the Japanese translation. Both translated versions diverged from Darwin’s usage of metaphors and were appropriated through the translator’s own pre–existing intellect and the surrounding social conditions. To sum up, Darwin’s use of metaphors was an appropriation of words written by previous scholars for the purpose of effectively delivering his opinion. However, beyond the West and its spatial boundaries of discourse, the words used in translating the theory of evolution were in fact not an example of metaphor but political action. In the culture sphere that shares Chinese characters, the Chinese translations that took place in countries that differ in culture and history were examples of an intersemiotic translation of language that closely resembled social practice.

An Inquiry into Yan Fu’s Translation Theory of Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance: The Beginning of China’s Modern Translation Theory

Min ZHANG | 2013, 6(3) | pp.179~196 | number of Cited : 0

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