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『물속의 아이들』 — 진화론의 문학적 수용
The Water Babies: Literary Acceptance of Evolution
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- 발행기관
- 21세기영어영문학회 바로가기
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- 간행물
- 영어영문학21 KCI 등재 바로가기
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- 통권
- 제29권 4호 (2016.12)바로가기
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- 페이지
- pp.73-91
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- 저자
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- 언어
- 한국어(KOR)
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- URL
- https://www.earticle.net/Article/A291700
원문정보
초록
- 영어
- The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley reveals the conflict between creation and evolution. It is natural for Kingsley as a clergyman to believe in creation, and as a scientist to accept evolution. In The Water Babies, he tries to solve this contradiction. The book was written for adolescent readers for the purpose of moral education. The first part of the book describes the protagonist Tom, a chimney sweep, who jumps into the river to escape Mr. Grimes, and the second part of the book describes Tom’s journey to the Other-end-of-Nowhere in the water. His journey involves learning moral lessons, and he comes to understand moral evolution through the fairy Ellie, the personified Nature. The moral evolution in this story is the core that decides the direction of evolution. If some creatures refuse to abandon immoral attitudes due to inertia, they would be against evolution. Kingsley insists that there is no direction in evolution, and that it is the morality of creatures that decides the direction of evolution. I believe that Kingsley’s stance on moral evolution comes from his status as a clergyman. He could not deny either the teaching of creation in the Bible or the scientific explanation of evolution as a scientist. In oder to compromise the two conflicting positions, he suggests his own argument that evolution is possible, but that, without good morality, any creature cannot proceed toward better situations. Considering that The Water Babies was written for adolescent readers, we need not criticize the educational intention of this book. Rather, it is better for us to read The Water Babies as a parody of evolution, which had shaken the foundation of Victorian society, and to understand the work as a medicine for the anxiety of the Victorian Era.
목차
I. 들어가는 말
II. 진화론과 킹즐리
III. 물 속의 아이들
IV. 맺는 말
인용문헌
Abstract
키워드
Charles Kingsley The Water Babies evolution Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Victorian society degeneration The Empire of Britain저자
간행물 정보
발행기관
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- 발행기관명
- 21세기영어영문학회 [The 21st Century Association of English Language and Literature]
- 설립연도
- 1967
- 분야
- 인문학>영어와문학
- 소개
- 영어영문학과 관련된 학술지의 발간, 학술발표회의 개최 및 강좌 개설, 영어영문학 관련 도서 및 자료의 출판, 해외 학술교류 등의 학술연구활동을 수행할 목적으로 설립되었다.
간행물
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- 간행물명
- 영어영문학21 [English21]
- 간기
- 계간
- pISSN
- 1738-4052
- 수록기간
- 1967~2025
- 등재여부
- KCI 등재
- 십진분류
- KDC 840 DDC 820
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