2017, Vol., No.64

Eating and Trauma in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

CHO, YOON JUNG | 2017, (64) | pp.5~39 | number of Cited : 10

The Anthropocene’s Implicatures and Regimen in Gary Nabhan’s Food, Gene, and Culture

Kim Dae-young | 2017, (64) | pp.41~79 | number of Cited : 2

Recently, geologists have suggested the concept of the anthropocene has various significant implicatures. Specifically in environmental discourses, it implies a nature-human interrelationship with an integrated perspective between natural science and humanities, human responsibility on current global environmental issues and involvement of the public. Given that the tipping point of nature’s resilience has almost been passed away, human action can be one of the alternative solutions on global environmental issues even though some deep ecologists have limited human intervention on environment since the 1960’s. Therefore, the anthropocene’s implicatures can render new practicable methodologies on environmental problems with human action. Regimen can give a space to render practicable solutions with its implicatures as it can support the nature-human interrelationship with both individuals’ health and quality food. With regimen, individuals can give a substantial consideration into how they can get good food for their own health. Furthermore, with regimen, the public can realize that humans are responsible for their own actions and for sustainable environments in order to get good food. Therefore, regimen can be a method for not only exemplifying the nature-human interrelationship, but rendering responsible human action, and fortifying communication for environmental discourses with the public. Gary Nabhan suggests the interrelationships with food, gene, and culture based on regimen. This research explores: 1) food-gene relations through fava bean and related phenomena (sickle-cell anemia, anti malaria substances); 2) gene-life relations through diabetes and eating native plants and life style; and 3) the importance of community culture through reconstruction of Hawaiian traditional community culture. With these examples, it emphasizes that regimen can reveal the anthropocene’s implicatures and help render responsible human action on sustainable environments.

Food and Culture of Traditional Rural Home Economics in the Late Joseon Dynasty

ChungKee Chung | 2017, (64) | pp.81~108 | number of Cited : 3

A Timber Theft Scandal in Jiri Mountain and Its Impact on Forest Policy

Songja Yim | 2017, (64) | pp.109~151 | number of Cited : 1

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This article illuminated in detail the timber theft scandal in Jiri Mountain in October 1964. Four key points of the scandal were analyzed as follows. Firstly, this study has analyzed the details of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s timber disposal and a close relationship between the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and companies which committed timber theft. Secondly, it examined the behind-the-scenes power of the scandal and inspected whether the power intervened or not in the timber theft. Thirdly, this article investigated if the Ministry of Home Affairs was far from that scandal. Finally, this article examined Seonam Heungeop (Southwest Company), Namseon Mokjae (South Korea Timber Company) and intervention of high-ranking officials in the scandal. Besides the above-mentioned four points, this study also researched this scandal’s impact on forest policy. The timber theft scandal in Jiri Mountain gave a big shock to the general public because high-ranking officials were involved and the theft was perpetrated on a large scale. Sin Sang-muk and Jang Gyeong-sun were central figures of the scandal. A key issue of the scandal was to find out the close relationship between illegally timber-felling companies and high-ranking officials. However, the prosecution and the police investigated the incident while taking a lukewarm attitude. Special investigation committee organized by the National Assembly could not reveal the connection between high-ranking officials and the timber theft scandal. Even if the suspicions of the scandal was not dispelled, this incident and its investigation exerted an influence on the changes of the forest policy. It resulted in the foundation of the Office of Forestry and prompted the integration of forest organizations. Also, the scandal had an influence on rearrangement of slash-and-burn fields. Those efforts could not become thorough measures against the timber theft or reckless deforestation, but could decrease the damage of the forest to a certain degree.

A Study of Hybridity in the Opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Sangwon Ahn | 2017, (64) | pp.153~183 | number of Cited : 1

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The aim of this study is to make an analysis of hybridity in Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos), an opera by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The collaborations between librettist Hofmannsthal and composer Strauss were very important for both of them. Hofmannsthal was able to escape from the ‘magical lyrical world’ in which he was immersed in his youth after his encounter with Strauss. And Strauss’s encounter with Hofmannsthal was also a great opportunity to enhance his reputation as an opera composer. Hofmannsthal planned Ariadne auf Naxos as ‘a play-within-a-play’ in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by 17th-century French playwright Moliere. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme as a ‘comédie-ballett’, which mixes a spoken play with music and dance, was also a precedent of the hybrid style. Following the failure of the premiere in 1912, Hofmannsthal removed the complete portion of the Moliere’s play in the 1916 revision. Instead, he created the ‘prologue’ with music, which would explain why the opera combines an heroic myth with a comedy performed by a commedia dell’arte group. In this final edition, hybridity of the work is complicatedly exposed. Opera seria and opera buffa are played at the same time, classical heroes and contemporary comedians come on the same stage, and noble asceticism comes into conflict with vulgar hedonism and is mixed with it. This bizarre form, in which serious music and frivolous comedy are mixed, is the result of being coerced by a rich and vulgar sponsor. The ‘composer’ in the drama, who succumbs to money power, implies more or less the artist existing in all societies at all periods. But the opera has not become a meaningless jumble, but has formed a complete whole, in which the contradictory elements found a suitable combination. This whole is not the synthesis of oppositional elements in a classical sense, but means hybridity, in which each element represents a diversity. The completed opera demonstrates the victory of the composer in the drama, and the victory also belongs to Hofmannsthal and Strauss.

Politics and Aesthetics as Auto-Emancipation - Jacques Rancière’s Identity of Politics and Aesthetics -

Jeon, Hyerim | 2017, (64) | pp.185~224 | number of Cited : 6

Time Perspective and Happiness － A Korean Study －

Goeun Lee , Bia Kim , HyunJung Shin | 2017, (64) | pp.225~262 | number of Cited : 5

Characteristics of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Religious Change from the Perspective of Lessing - With Focus on the Play Nathan der Weise -

SHIN JONG RAK | 2017, (64) | pp.263~289 | number of Cited : 2

An Analysis of Chrysanthemum Image in Korean-American Writer Hong Eurn’s Sijo

KIM AYUN | 2017, (64) | pp.291~318 | number of Cited : 4

When Korea was under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the 20th century, Hong Eurn (1880∼1951) was a first-generation ethnic Korean in the United States. He worked as a Korean-American writer at The New Korea (Sinhanminbo; founded in 1909), and wrote sijo, gasa, Chinese-letter poems, novels, plays, and literary reviews for The New Korea. This paper has examined Hong Eurn’s sijo based on chrysanthemum dealt with at The New Korea, which reported the chrysanthemum image. As a result of the analysis, firstly, this paper has figured out that the chrysanthemum traditionally symbolized “constancy and endurance.” He emphasized that people keep their constancy when they were resisting against Japanese imperialism and engaging in the independence movement. Through this, constancy and endurance had been incorporated in his experiences with which he fought against Japan for Korean independence movement. Secondly, this paper has explored “an autumn flavor and the richness” which is represented by the chrysanthemum. An autumn flower, the chrysanthemum has heightened excitement of season. And the chrysanthemum has co-existed with liquor, the moon, and friends. So “an autumn flavor and the richness” has followed the tradition of Korean sijo. Thirdly, this paper has proved “the death of the chrysanthemum” is converted into “the rebirth of the chrysanthemum.” This paper, thus, has found that “the rebirth” of the chrysanthemum is shown only in Hong Eurn’s sijo. This paper, therefore, has drawn several conclusions from the discussions described above. Firstly, Hong Eurn chose the form of sijo to express his lyricism through the image of chrysanthemums. Secondly, he developed a unique form of chrysanthemum image, he deviated himself from the conventional Korean literary circles. Finally, he wrote sijo based on chrysanthemums in order to preserve his Korean identity and pursue his life of a patriot who fought against the Japanese imperialists.

Chinese Civil Society, Intellectuals and Movement of Community － Centering on the Case of Lashihai in Yunnan －

LEE EUNSANG | 2017, (64) | pp.319~355 | number of Cited : 0

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Chinese Literary Works Preserved from Confucian Intellectuals Exiled to Norrth Gando in the Early 20th Century

Eunyoung Lee | 2017, (64) | pp.357~388 | number of Cited : 0

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The Aspect of Relation between Jaedam (才談) and the Transmission of Simcheong-jeon

Choi Jin Hyung | 2017, (64) | pp.389~423 | number of Cited : 1

Jaedam (才談), or a joke, is considered to have taken on a very important role in the structure of pansori narratives. But when one examines the transmission and transfiguration of pansori in a diachronic way, one can know jaedam hasn’t always been treated positively. Pansori as a performance art commonly had the tendency to reduce the amount of jaedam and seek musical completion. On the other hand, pansori as a text for reading takes on an entirely different tendency. It didn’t simply use jaedam but actively utilized it or expansively transformed it. Pansori as a performance art put top priority on the singers’ talents and highly valued “popularity,” and pansori as a text for reading focused on ‘interest’ through defamiliarization. So if this can be generalized, the relation between pansori and jaedam can be explained more clearly. Simcheong-jeon (A Story of Sim Cheong) can be distinguished from other pansori works because it doesn’t have an apparent “conflictual relationship,” and it has the aesthetics of ‘tragic beauty’ as its main mood. That is why jaedam, which means amusing jokes that contain textual beauty, is hardly employed in Simcheong-jeon. There is little space for jaedam to settle in between the character’s action of noble sacrifice, and the method of resolving a problem by the intervention of the heavenly mandate aimed at rewarding the character for her behaviors. The overly serious, solemn, and ideological behavior of the character can sometimes cause negative influences on the completion of this piece. That is why a realistic, vulgar, and comical character was vitally required for maintaining the piece’s harmony and balance. So it is considered that the necessity of jaedam was brought up to meet these needs. To summarize Simcheong-jeon by putting Sim Cheong’s father Sim Hak-gyu in the center of the story, it is about losing everything and then restoring it. Sim Hak-gyu, the blind man who had lost his wife but had a daughter, lost his daughter and got a second wife, and then loses not only his second wife but also all the possessions and honor. But he recovers almost all things after losing everything. In the process of losing everything and falling into the bottomless pit, the elder Sim turns vulgar and unhandsome. Simcheong-jeon is balanced sublimely between Sim Cheong and her father’s narrative. In other words, the solemn Simcheong and her vulgar father are forming two central axes. When one puts the part where Sim Cheong plunges into Indangsu Waters (印塘水) as the main scene, it is notable to see that jaedam, which hardly appeared prior to this scene, appears frequently. That is because jaedam takes an important role of describing Sim the blind father. The fact that solemnity and vulgarity, tragic beauty and comic beauty formed harmony and balance is regarded as the important reason why Simcheong-jeon has been loved and passed down to the present times. And it’s worth noticing that jaedam took on a very important part in expressing vulgarity and comic beauty.

The Return of Intellectual History and a Challenging Future － Some Reflections on the State of the Field with a Focus on Recent Anglo-American Scholarship －

Min Byoung Hee | 2017, (64) | pp.425~465 | number of Cited : 1

Intellectual history, which had been marginalized in the field of history during the past several decades, has been recently revitalized. The context of the return is the spread of the conviction that the humanities including historical studies should take their responsibility for the present and the future of the world. Intellectual history provides a special space of interdisciplinary communication for the academia and universities which are suffering from the fragmentation of the highly specialized discipline system. Over the past few decades, intellectual history has expanded its realm of research. It has overcome the criticism of elitism and idealism and stretched its research subjects over the people, real life, and popular culture. Intellectual history has been influenced by diverse methodologies and perspectives in the related disciplines. Other disciplines have developed interests in the subjects of ideas, knowledge, and high culture which have been the traditional realm of intellectual history. Now the realm of research is largely overlapped between intellectual history and other related disciplines. The new objects such as psychology, emotion, experience are also expanding the realm of intellectual history. Globalization, digital humanities, and the epistemological turn for the space and time recently change the landscape of historical studies. Consequently “global intellectual history” has emerged in the field. Despite the rosy description of the field, some intellectual historians are concerned about eclecticism which could obfuscate what unites intellectual history as a sub-discipline and fall into dilettantism. Intellectual historians should reflect on the nature of its interdisciplinarity and improve the real procedures of interdisciplinary works in order to develop intellectual history as a vital field par excellence.

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