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Kim, MiNa. “Quentin’s Tragedy in Family Dynamics.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 1-19. This paper suggests that Quentin’s motive for committing suicide is in his family dynamics and examines his relationships with his father, mother and sister Caddy who are believed to have a great influence on him. The Sound and the Fury is a story about the tragedy of the Compson family caused by the dysfunctional parents, Mr. & Mrs Compson. Self-pitying Mrs. Compson rejects her maternal role and withholds her love from her children, and Mr. Compson escapes from reality and indulges in drinking and cynical nihilism. As a result, all their four children suffer and live self-destructive lives. The eldest son, Quentin, in particular, falls into despair at Caddy’s loss of virginity, which he regards as the family honor. In addition, his family’s mixed, contradictory messages confuse him about his identity and finally leads him to choose death. Faulkner, who frequently took the family as a theme, emphasizes the importance of a family paradoxically through the tragedy of a dysfunctional family. (Jeonju University)

Kim, Jason. “Mark Twain’s Mythic Persona in Roughing It.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 21-44. On the Oregon-California Trail, Mark Twain saw many things and recorded them from his different personas’ subjective points of view in his Roughing It, about which “no books have been written.” It is also important to see the psychological aspect of Mark Twain’s alternating personas in different situations and, consequently, the creation of an American mythic character living free from worldly cares, an antagonist to a heroic superman type. Roughing It is told by three different personas of Mark Twain: the first part by the innocent Mark Twain; the second by the seasoned, but not grown up, Mark Twain. The third persona is the travel writer Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens successfully gets away from a serious and rational persona by adopting his pseudonym Mark Twain. Freed from the social requirements to be a serious and rational writer, Mark Twain is able to create other, humorous and innocent personas in his travel book. His early travel book, Roughing It, becomes a perfect arena to create such innocent, naive, dead-pan, and unsophisticated characters, and make them experience new adventures and risks, who never grow into experienced personas and who have become mythic characters in the USA. (Konyang University)

Kim, Jung Kyu. “A Study of the Other: T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -Focused on Gilles Deleuze’s theory-.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 45-62. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Eliot has defined his position by describing the world from which he is isolated and alienated. In this poetry, Prufrock attempts to convey his feelings but he partially loses his grasp on those feelings, for they are inexpressible. These feelings, so intense and indefinable, lead to the overwhelming question which is equally difficult to express. Prufrock’s inner self is hidden from the others by his own fears and social conventions, because timidity conquers the suppressed self. This awful separation cannot be one from the first to the last. Deleuze suggests that his work grounds a new conception of the Other–the Other as expression of a possible world, as a structure that precedes any subsequent dialectical mediation, including the master-slave dialectic of social relations. I have found, therefore, this poetry holds the key to a new understanding of the Other. (Chung-Ang University)

Kim, Hyun-saeng. “Byron and Islam: A Study of ‘Oriental Tales’.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 63-87. Byron created his own “Oriental Tales,” in which the West and the East were portrayed in the context two warring monotheistic religions. The Siege of Corinth, the last poem of the series, is a love story, seemingly having nothing directly to do with the conflicts between the dominant and subversive discourse. The setting of Corinth was the center of conflicts situated between Ottoman Empire and the West. However, the fact that the hero in the poem, Alp converted from Christian to Muslim, represented a new way of reading on dominant and subversive discourse. His conversion can be interpreted as a resist discourse to subvert dominant discourse. Alp himself is a double act of questioning the validity of two opposing discourses, dominant and resist discourse. (Daegu University)

Yu, Jie-Ae. “Unfolding Perceptions of Exile, Loss, and Spiritual Reinforcement in The Seafarer.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 89-105. The main purpose of this paper is to examine how The Seafarer, an Old English elegiac poem, embodies the speaker’s contemplations on the repercussion of his mournful experiences caused by exile and bereavement during his sea journey. The article also investigates how he turns to procreate a vibrant reaction to these morbid occurrences at the present time. Numerous textual evidences reveal his unswerving eagerness for overcoming the grief-stricken circumstances with wise acceptance. In this sense, the poem features a symbolic journey of the Seafarer, which connects with a mental procedure of undertaking his hardships taken from the separation from his comrades and the loss of his previous rest and glory. In spite of this distinctive elegiac motif, other textual instances, simultaneously, demonstrate the speaker’s vigorous response to such depressing mood. He expands his distressful view of the vicissitudes of the world into a dynamic, firm belief in the religious realm of permanence, hence regenerating his spiritual vitality and reinforcement. (Changwon National University)

Yun, Cheongie. “A Discourse of the Reverse and Madness: A Reading of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1: (2011): 107-29. Many critics have read Alice’s adventures in Wonderland as popular fantasies or fairy tales. This reading could be reached the nonsensical world of Alice’s world. But actually the Alice’s world is not nonsense at all because its underlying meanings are more complicated than fantasies or fairy tales show. Carroll questioned the value of order and principles in the world and explored their sophisticated meanings through ‘the satiric destruction of the common sense.’ By using both ‘episodic dream structures’ and ‘symbolic nonsenses,’ he deconstructed the boundaries of dream and real world, and reversed the order of the world. For Carroll, this was an effective narrative strategy. In fact, it is worth pointing out that the motifs of the reverse and madness in the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are almost dramatically composed. Carroll embodies them to create the sensical world beyond the reach of nonsense. ‘What he creates is a cosmic joke but it is more than a good joke’. Carroll shows us moral and philosophical insight into the world, which is based on Victorian society which have a disordered and disoriented world without God. (Seonam University)

Lee, Nakyoung. “‘True loue’ and ‘loyall friendship’: Love and Same-sex Bonds in The Faerie Queene, Books III and IV.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 131-51. This paper proposes to examine love and the same-sex bonds in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene Books III & IV. As a cite for imagining and manifesting both homosocial desire and heterosexual love, Spenser’s romance meditates the concept of romantic love as well as accommodates the contemporary issues like gender, sexuality, and marriage. Through analyzing the way the same-sex bonds and the love between the sexes are defined, this study attempts to show that Spenser presented a significant moment in the history of friendship. While he examined the significance of male friendship through the knights, Cambell and Triamond, Spenser also probed the chaste love between female characters. The love between Britomart and Amoret tends to support the patriarchal system for it functions to show the connections between chastity and true love. However, the chaste and compassionate love between Britomart and Amoret offers a discursive space where the male-dominated structure of romance can be reassessed. (Ewha Womans University)

Lee, Jun-Eui. “Graham Greene’s The Quiet American: An Exploration of the Possibility of Coexistence.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 153-73. In The Quiet American, Graham Greene experiments with the life of human beings in order to emphasize the humanitarian cause for the people who live around us. Through the characters of Alden Pyle and Thomas Fowler, Greene explores two important after-war philosophies: Existentialism and Linguistic Empiricism. A British correspondent, Fowler, standing for the former, refuses to get involved in this absurd world where we can’t understand anything logically. On the other side, Pyle, representing Linguistic Empiricism, is a young American who wants to marry Phuong with whom Fowler lives together. As a member of Economic Aid Mission, Pyle is competent and innocent but doesn’t know much about the real world. He tries to apply his half-baked ideas to the real world and causes a disaster. Having observed other people’s pain and innocent death caused by Pyle’s experiment, Fowler gradually comes to assume responsibility and to feel sympathy for them. The key to this novel lies in Fowler’s gradual recognition of humanity and the reality of others. Here Greene convincingly presents the protagonist’s spiritual awakening to humanity and lays great emphasis on the importance of attention and sympathy for others. (Daejeon Health & Sciences College)

Chae, Yoo-Soon. “Gender Identity and Social Mobility through Disguise in Twelfth Night” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 175-201. This paper aims to examine the gender identity and the social mobility through disguise. After being focused on the queer studies in the academy, the criticism on Twelfth Night has been treated in many different ways such as gender problems(i.e, homoerotic love, heterosexual marriages, and bisexuality), and the social mobility to compare with the traditional criticism, which focused on the triangular relationship of Orsino, Viola, and Olivia, and the happy ending of the protagonists’ love affairs. Viola’s cross-dressing provokes Olivia’s homoerotic love, and her girlish face and voice brought Orsino Homoerotic love. Viola’s disguise and Malvolio’s transformation create confusion and pleasure. Malvolio’s false desire and ambition to marry up and dominate over his household are mocked by Sir Toby’s gang. The proclamation of the joint wedding ceremony between Orsino and Viola, and between Olivia and Sebastian will be indefenitly delayed, until the captain provides Viola’s maid’s garments. Everybody expects a happy marriage but Malvorio isolates himself from the joyful and comic festival because of his proclaiming revenge against all of his victimizers. (Hanseo University)

Kim, Young-Sook. “A Historical Sociolinguistic Study on Phonological Variables in English.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 203-23. This study aims to investigate social phonological variables in English from the perspective of diachronic linguistic changes, contrasting to the previous studies which focused mostly on synchronic linguistic variations. It is suggested that there were two kinds of linguistic changes on social phonological variables ― one is a change in sound, the other is a change in social meaning. That is, social phonological variables simply were variables in sound and did not function as a marker of social status at first but as several centuries passed, they have come to be social variables which function as a scale of social stratification. In order to support this suggestion, the periodical data in accordance with the stage of the change is analyzed. And this data is extracted from the literary texts which are regarded as real utterance at that time. In addition, the cause of linguistic changes is also explained on the basis of sociolinguistic approaches. (Ulsan University)

Kim, Woo-Hyung. “A Case Study of the Effects of a Short-term English Immersion Program.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 225-44. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a short-term English immersion program. The results show that students who participated in this English immersion program provided positive reflections on the organization of the curriculum of the program. The results also indicate that students improved only their speaking and writing skills among the 4 language skills because the curriculum consisted mainly of speaking and writing courses. Therefore, the curriculum for future programs should focus on not only improving students’ communicative language ability but also integrating the 4 language skills. Finally, analysis from this study concludes that a short-term English immersion program is able to maximize Korean university students’ communicative language ability with consistent interest and support from universities in Korea. (Keimyung University)

Yoon, Kyuchul. “Using the Prosody Cloning Technique in Teaching English Prosody.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 245-71. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of using the prosody cloning technique in teaching English prosody to university students. Eighty-six university students, twenty two in a control group and the other sixty four in the experimental group, participated in a prosody training experiment for a five and a half week period. For the study material of the experimental group, eight utterances whose prosody had been cloned after that of a native speaker of English were given while the control group was given the same set uttered by the same native speaker. The recordings both before and after the experiment were made. The results showed that the experimental group performed better in terms of the intonation contour and word durations. In the two listening tests, the scores of the experimental group were better than the control group. These findings appear to suggest that the use of prosody cloning technique is viable in teaching English prosody to university students. (Yeungnam University)

Lee, Eunkyeong. “Multiple Agree Reconsidered and Case Potentiality in Coordination.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 273-97. This paper sheds light on the revised Multiple Agree handling asymmetric Case checking and Case potentiality of coordinated conjuncts(DP1 & DP2) occupying Spec of TP. PIC(phase impenetrability condition) insists that outside checker can not assign Case to two conjuncts directly within ConjP. Yet, whereas the previous Multiple Agree emphasizes Case checking’s simultaneity, the revised Multiple Agree is readily available to check Case(DP1, DP2) sequentially but not simultaneously into ConjP. It reflects that T’s multiple subproperty is not discharged until local DP1 and non-local DP2 are checked off in turn. One step further, unexpected Case form shown in Spec of TP is regarded as invisible Case potentiality which is handed over from Head(&) by Case Percolation. (Chonbuk University)

Lee, HyunKeun. “On English binomial and it’s Korean correspondence.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 299-318. This paper examines the English binomials and their Korean correspondences semantically and conceptually. We focus on the A-and-B type binomial forms and found two things. First of all, the coordinate conjunction ‘and’ in English binomial is usually deleted in Korean translated one. The first reason for that is the different writing systems between two languages. But more importantly, the second reason is that this phenomenon reflects Proximity principle, which is “the closer the relations are, the less words are used”. Secondly, the word order of binomial is usually same in both languages, but there are significant reverse orders. This means that the conceptualization process is not same in both languages. (Kongju University)