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The Rhetoric Strategy of Feminism in 「Kyeong Hee」

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2009, (68), pp.455-477
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Mounkwo Jeong 1,  Yun Namhee 1

1배재대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to look for the process of creating the meaning of the rhetoric strategy of feminism in the novel, 'Kyeong Hee' written by Na, Hae Seok and also to understand how readers accept those rhetoric strategies. The story of the novel, 'Kyeong Hee', is composed of processes that a modern woman seek to the sense of sovereignty. By using the ways of dialogues' and 'monologues' in the process of actualizing subject, the author naturally let readers to participate in there actively in the form of dialogues. In monologues, however, psychological statements of the narrator are disclosed through the expression of the hero. It is found that the rhetoric of denial and contrast was a special strategy which arouse mentality of persuasion. It is also found that the rhetoric strategy in the novel of 'Kyeong Hee' is not merely a expressive mode but a strategy which creates meanings, a invitation to active reading and a way which creates interactions between the narrator and readers. Through a series of the process, the modern women who were branded as negative women became positive ones. It is significant that this kind of change was started from where the narrator and readers can gain a conscious sympathy through the rhetoric strategy of feminism not through the enforcement of the narrator.

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