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The perception of Maisie, the child protagonist of What Maisie Knew, depends primarily upon her visual observation and her emotional feeling throughout the novel. As her experience increases, the capacity of her perception grows. Nonetheless, she does not seem to have a full-fledged linguistic and conceptual perception even at the end of the novel. This paper tries to analyze the perceptual process and limitations of Maisie in which she, while growing up, undergoes a change from the passive reception of visual stimuli to the active intellectual speculation. Meanwhile, she comes to understand the more about the convoluted relationships of the love affairs of her parents and step-parents, which are concealed under their hypocritical behavior and their use of rhetorical language. Although Maisie’s perception becomes more mature and comprehensive, still she cannot have a fully conceptual understanding of the moral and social implication inherent in the improper relationships of her parents and step-parents. It is so because having moral sense is a matter of conceptual understanding, but it is neither a matter of a sensory knowledge nor that of emotional comprehension.

목차

I. 감각적 지각의 한계
II. 직설적 언어 능력의 한계
III. 메이지의 숨기기
IV. 어른들의 은폐
V. 정서적 인식
VI. 메이지의 인식의 한계—도덕관념
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저자

• 나희경 [ Heekyung Nah | 전남대학교 교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820