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This paper examines the way in which Irish writer Claire Keegan represents a national trauma in Ireland surrounding the Magdalen laundries in Small Things Like These. Yet, only with brief description about incarcerated young girls’ lives in a Magdalen laundry, Keegan narrates how Bill Furlong the main protagonist gradually gets to know what’s really taking place inside the Magdalen laundry and comes to terms with that knowledge. This whole process is depicted through his delivery trips to the convent where the laundry is also located. His entering into that convent and witnessing harsh realities of girls’ exploitative life there is gradually being unfolded before him and this makes him utterly shocked. He begins to suffer from moral dilemma due to the fact that doing what’s right demands a great risk of damaging what he has achieved so far. The novel ends with Bill’s courageous act of getting a girl out of the convent despite such a risk. In this process of Keegan’s literary representation of Bill’s way of dealing with a trauma and moral dilemma, particular attention is given to the way in which what I call an ‘aesthetics of liminality’ is embodied. In addition, this paper attempts to show how the novel (or the film) can serve as a location of such kind of aesthetics by analyzing some characteristics of Keegan’s short story writing process.

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I. 서론
II. 본론
1. 빌의 1차 수녀원 방문
2. 빌의 2차 수녀원 방문
3. 빌의 3차 수녀원 방문
III. 결론
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저자

• 이유혁 [ Lee, Yoo-Hyeok | 부산대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810