{"title":"Criticism of Western Modern Self-concept in Choi In-hoon's Novel: Focusing on the Comparison Between The Picture of Dorian Gray and “Thought on the Mask”","authors":"Seounghyeok Ahn","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.109","url":null,"abstract":"Choi In-Hoon's “Thought on the Mask” pursues the novelian task of postwar Koreans' self-discovery. This story, like The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, deals with the theme of Renaissance people's dream of self-fulfillment and shows that pursuing the Western self-concept emphasizing faithfulness to oneself to the end will result in the tragedy of self-division and alienation of the others. By referring to Dorian Gray's trial and error, it suggests a process of self-exploration of properties that reversed it. And by introducing the concept of self-liberation from Buddhism in the ending, the theme of self-exploration in modern Western novels was completed as an oriental self-discovery, and formally, the possibility of cultural decolonization is discovered by producing a dramatic story of transformation and self-liberation that is different from the typical narrative structure of a modern Western novel. Lastly, Choi In-hoon shows the complexity of the task of cultural decolonization, which must be approached from the perspective of multilayered mutual criticism, breaking away from the simple logic of the East instead of the West by overlaying a frame that criticizes this ending again outside the story.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115200306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love for the Planet: From Ecology to Planetary Erotics","authors":"Coccia Emanuele","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper begins by exploring some historical literature, including fairy tales, on “love” and debunks its most popular idea as a purely natural and spontaneous relationship between humans. It then shifts focus to human relationships with animals, particularly companion animals like dogs and cats. The paper argues that the human-animal bond diminishes one's individuality or identity, enabling the experience of affection in its truest sense, which is a deep, interconnected love between beings. It concludes that interspecies relationships exemplify love in its purest form, transcending biological characteristics and encompassing all species on Earth, including the planet itself. The paper suggests the necessity of reimagining ecology as “planetary erotics” to gain a fresh perspective on our understanding and experience of love.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"58 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114250372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Norio Nagama and Juvenile Crime in Modern Japan","authors":"Sang-hyon Nam","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.85","url":null,"abstract":"Norio Nagayama was a 19-year-old serial killer in 1968 in Japan. Nagayama’s life and works were also evaluated as a contact point for showing the lowest classes in the 1960s and 1970s. In this article, I will progress a comprehensive study of various academic issues by focusing on juvenile crime. Also, examine how he influenced Japan’s current view on juvenile crime and find out the possibility of modern interpretation. First, as for the legal impact, established the criteria for choosing a juvenile death penalty, such as the ‘Nagayama Standard,’ informs that the argument of severe punishment of juvenile crimes, and death penalty issues were reviewed early in Japan. Second, Nagayama’s notes led to an apology for the victim’s family without showing off the crime itself. Accordingly, Japan learned that the cause of crime can be found in the (non)fictions of juvenile criminals. It confirmed that it is important to set up a place for thinking about analyzing and transmitting various causes of juvenile crimes through non-fictions or literary works. Finally, Nagayama’s novels were meaningful as a realisㄴtic work and record to find the cause of a juvnile’s crime.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132096058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagination of New Coexistence and Harmony: Focusing on Hiroyuki Itsuki’s “Good-bye Moscow”","authors":"Su-il Cho","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.175","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to consider the imagination of new coexistence and harmony through the reading of Hiroyuki Itsuki(五木寛之)’s debut work, “Good-bye Moscow” (さらば,モスクワ愚連隊). This work, which was carried out from the perspective of Kitami(北見)=“I,” who was a jazz pianist and is currently representing a performing company, is a kind of middlebrow fiction published in 1966, and has been read as a text to redefine his origin through a Soviet boy named Misha. This paper also focuses on the speaker “I,” who is different from the character “I,” to explain where and how the speaker develops the novel, and what the imagination of new coexistence and harmony implies by overlapping the intended or unintended meaning of the narrative and expression with contemporary Japanese context.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124638368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping Posthuman Body through Cyborg beings: Focus on Contemporary Korean Performance Art","authors":"Seung-a You","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.129","url":null,"abstract":"Mapping Posthuman body through Cyborg beings is a research project that examines the meaning of the posthuman through monster- like figures and cyborg beings, often used as symbolic representations of a cyborg in Korean performance art. The project manifests a critical view of transhumanism, which adheres to the same dichotomous division emphasized by humanism, and examines the posthuman being as “materially embodied, embedded in the environment, and intertwined with the world” as well as the ‘worlding-with’ method as a mode of posthuman existence. In particular, she turns to Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg as the theoretical framework to explore how cyborg politics, which transcends the traditional, dichotomous thinking of the West and breaks down its boundaries, has developed within the trajectory of Korean art history. Research focuses on the bodies that get reconstructed at every moment within relationships by the act of blurring boundaries and suggests that we contemplate the meaning of our interactions with others and the sense of solidarity within the context of post- humanism in the post-COVID-19 era.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131131270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Phenomenon of Hatred and Counter-discourse in Contemporary Japan: From the Perspective of Multiple Discrimination and Intersectionality","authors":"Ji-Young Kim","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.17","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to examine the phenomenon of hatred in contemporary Japan from the perspectives of ‘multiple discrimination’ and ‘intersectionality’ and to consider the possibility of counter-discourses to resist the spread of hate. Since the 2010s, Japan has witnessed an eruption of compounded hatred against racial and ethnic minorities, women and sexual minorities, and socially vulnerable people. Hate-related research and discourse in Japan have developed in response to this phenomenon, and anti-hate discourse requires a transversal approach to respond to the complexity of the phenomenon. Anti-hate discourses and movements in Japan have been accumulating based on the concept of ‘multiple discrimination’ and are currently connected to discussions on ‘intersectionality’. However, the potential of the intersectionality debate in Japan is ambivalent, as it does not fully reflect the experiences and voices of minorities in Japan.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121585939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Logic of the Uncanny: On the Role of Uncanny and Representation in Hal Foster's Analysis of Surrealism","authors":"Jinhee Lee, Jaejoon Lee","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.149","url":null,"abstract":"Hal Foster shares his basic stance with Rosalind Krauss in the analysis of Surrealism. He focus is internal criticism of Surrealists; the common writing style and Automatism agreed by Surrealist Manifesto are quite inappropriate for the expression of paintings. And he accommodates uncanny logic to solve this problem. Uncanny is an ontological panic associated with the accidental revealing of something fundamentally oppressed. The purpose of this discussion is to reappraise about the logic of the uncanny in Foster's Surrealism to supplement for the problem of representation that he could not analysis. This is representation and representational images were a fundamental and important expression of Surrealism that sought to realize the interpretation of dreams. For this discussion, we suggest the internal contradiction of Surrealism along Foster and Krauss. Furthermore, we reveal that the fundamental part of this internal contradictions is matter of representation, which is ontologically a problem of self-identity and a problem of narcissistic double and likeness as presented in Freud's analysis of the uncanny. Finally, it uses this as a basis for a reinterpretation of the uncanny logic employed in Foster's analysis of surrealism.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129522160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hate Speech and Institutionalized Society","authors":"Ta Na","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.67","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the related histories of institutionalization and hate speech in order to address the issue of hate speech as an accumulated result of structural violence, often stimulated by the state. Institutionalization, as an analytic framework, refers to a social mechanism that produces “unproductive” and “abnormal” citizens, or non-citizens, and incarcerates them both within and outside of society, all in the name of protecting the “society”. Individuals who can’t get their social position in legal or family structures found themselves outside of society's protective structures. I criticize how the contemporary tendency confines the criticism of hate speech to the rhetoric of “freedom of speech” and conflict between individuals and how it obscures, and thus perpetuates, the structural violence that facilitates hate speech. By addressing the concept of “institutionalization” as an analytic framework, this article highlights the linkage between institutionalized society, state power, and hate speech. In doing so, I argue that the rethinking of “human rights” can be a useful method to cut off the structural reproduction of hate speech.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122901592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Response of the Sympathetic Humanities Center in the Age of Disgust","authors":"I. Park, Hye-Dong Kim","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.14.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.14.199","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133049196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radioactivity and Boundaries Appeared in Literature after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident","authors":"Jeongmyoung Sim","doi":"10.37123/th.2023.13.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37123/th.2023.13.93","url":null,"abstract":"More than 10 years have passed since the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. However, the “nuclear emergency declaration” that came out immediately after the accident has not been lifted as of January 2023. Due to the nuclear accident, many people are still evacuating, and it is uncertain when and how the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be decommissioned. In this paper, we analyzed through specific works how literature is facing problems such as nuclear accidents and radioactive contamination in this situation. Hitomi Kanehara's The One Who Doesn't Have deals with the issue of fear of radiation exposure and depicts specific aspects of life after Fukushima. Hideo Furukawa's Or a Billion Years of Surah imagines an island=forest isolated from the outside world due to a nuclear accident in the near future, and questions the border of radioactive contamination. Erika Kobayashi's Breakfast with Madame Curie recognizes the invisibility of radiation as a trace of an invisible existence, and connects various time and space related to radioactivity and nuclear power.","PeriodicalId":443880,"journal":{"name":"Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127428883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}