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@article{ART002817407},
author={Oh, Se-jeong},
title={A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject},
journal={The Research of the Korean Classic},
issn={1226-3850},
year={2022},
number={56},
pages={289-318}

TY - JOUR
AU - Oh, Se-jeong
TI - A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject
JO - The Research of the Korean Classic
PY - 2022
VL - null
IS - 56
PB - The Research Of The Korean Classic
SP - 289
EP - 318
SN - 1226-3850
AB - With the advent of post-human discourse, a review of human beings from a new perspective rather than the conventional point of view has been activated in all fields of study, including the humanities. The new discourse implies and drives not only indications and interpretations of phenomena but also changes in the existing view of human beings or the world. Therefore, the search for a new perspective or approach based on a new discourse remains a valid problem in research on classical literature. In this paper, I made a new attempt to study the characters of the “Vengeful Ghosts” (冤鬼) that often appear in classical narratives. Although the vengeful ghost is an inhuman being, it reveals the value and character of human existence. The vengeful-ghost narrative is structured in such a way that a woman harbors resentment, and a ghost (transformed from a woman) resolves the resentment. In the first half of the narrative, the woman does not become a subject of doing but remains a subject of being, and then becomes a vengeful ghost and a subject of doing, thereby completing the task of the narrative. In the world of narrative, the path of the subject as a semiotic existence leads from the “virtual” mode to the “actual” mode and then to the “real” mode. In the process of a vengeful ghost narrative, as the character changes from a female human to a vengeful ghost, we can identify a new stage, the “potential” mode. The vengeful ghost has now become a subject who realizes new possibilities and carries out tasks, breaking out of the limited scope of action in the given world order. This change in the subject is based on the expression of anger against the real world, which denies basic desires, such as the realization of human dignity and love, that should be respected in human beings. As the subject of passion, the vengeful ghost shows what is lacking in the real world and what needs to be supplemented. Through this perspective, a new reading of the vengeful ghost is a request to reflect on the human being who represents the world and gives it its order.
KW - Post-human;post-human discourse;classical narrative;character;vengeful ghost;narrative subject;semiotics of action;semiotics of the passion
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Oh, Se-jeong. (2022). A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject. The Research of the Korean Classic, 56, 289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong. 2022, "A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject", The Research of the Korean Classic, no.56, pp.289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong "A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject" The Research of the Korean Classic 56 pp.289-318 (2022) : 289.

Oh, Se-jeong. A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject. 2022; 56 : 289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong. "A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject" The Research of the Korean Classic no.56(2022) : 289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong. A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject. The Research of the Korean Classic, 56, 289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong. A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject. The Research of the Korean Classic. 2022; 56 289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong. A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject. 2022; 56 : 289-318.

Oh, Se-jeong. "A Study on Post-Human Discourse and Character Theory of Classical Narrative: The Vengeful Ghost as Narrative Subject" The Research of the Korean Classic no.56(2022) : 289-318.