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Kang, Shinwook. “Poetic Philosopher vs Philosophic Poet —A Comparative Study of the Lives and Poetics of Confucius and Wordsworth.” Studies in English language & Literature. 43.2 (2017): 1-25. Even though Confucius and William Wordsworth lived in different times and places, they seemed to have lots of similarities in their lives and poetics, notwithstanding a few differences. First of all, they lived in the period with a very dramatic paradigm shift in their ages and human lives. Facing unprecedented chaos and tragedies, Confucius pursued to rediscover the meaning of common actions and situations of human lives and build a better life and society. Wordsworth was not different from Confucius in the basic goal of his life and his way to realize it because he held up defamiliarization as his catch phrase. Interestingly, their similarities can be found more in their life experiences and poetics than have we expected. So in this paper I want to examine such similarities to find a clue to how to overcome the ‘age of nightmare’ in which we are living, not ignoring some small but significant differences between them. As a result, Confucius and Wordsworth can be appreciated as a poetic philosopher and a philosophic poet respectively. And furthermore, we are able to learn from them that poetry can be an action of resistance to sustain and survive as a human being against the sweeping waves of making all things around us trivial and fragmented. (Chonbuk National University)

Kim, Young Hee. “David Markson’s This Is Not a Novel: A Deviation from Traditional Fiction Writing.” Studies in English Language and Literature. 43.2 (2017): 27-47. Directly denying its identity as a novel, David Markson’s This Is Not a Novel utilizes a varied assemblage of historical events, obituaries, anecdotes, and quotes to break away from the confined frame of fiction writing. This study aims at identifying and analyzing experimental narrative devices Markson employs to push the boundaries of a conventional novel utmost. On an axis of death motifs scattered throughout the book, he juxtaposes his own dilemma as a writer with insightful fragments of sundry facts and factoids, deliberately avoiding so-called proper elements of a novel. To convey the overriding themes of death and writing, he turns to a unique arrangement of phrases and witty word plays in this minimalistic writing, rather than depending on a well-structured plot and elaborate character development. In the process of reading the book, his readers get inevitably involved in writing their own version of a story, thus filling the vacant space between the lines that Markson strategically laid out. Participating in creating a whole new story this way, the readers save the writer from solitude and his fear of oblivion, and help him counterplot his predicament with exhausted replenishment. (Keimyung University)

Kim, Yeonmin. “Thomas Hardy’s Mourning: Photographic Images in Emma Poems.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 49-73. A melancholic mourner, Thomas Hardy expresses his unending lamentation for the death of Emma, his first wife. In Emma poems (Poems of 1912-13) he adopts photographic images in the process of his mourning as a modern elegist. The visual images he captures in his poetry can be discussed in three ways: First, the presence of the dead is revealed through metonymy. Hardy suggests that metonymic objects retain direct traces of Emma in the same way as a photograph, which develops the light, keeps the direct contact with an object. Second, he conveys through photographic images an experience of sudden, stingy awareness, a sort of “punctum,” a concept theorized by Roland Barthes. Hardy’s punctum confirms the undeniable fact that Emma was there in the past, despite her absolute absence in the present moment. Last, his punctum creates dramatic irony arising from perceptual gaps between an object (Emma) and an observer (Hardy or readers). In showing his painful awakening, always belated but rendered by the dramatic irony through the visual, Hardy continues his perpetual project of melancholic mourning. (Chonnam National University)

Kim, Cheol-soo. “An Excuse for Dimmesdale: Re-reading The Scarlet Letter.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 75-96. This study aims to re-read Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and revaluate Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, who has been negatively assessed as a hypocritical coward hidden in the shadow of Puritanism and present more positive perspective of him. Some characteristics of the novel such as the temporal and emotional gaps between the 17th century society and the attitude of a 19th century writer, the genre of romance swaying between the past and the present, reality and fantasy, and finally the flexibility of narrative allowing for an open-ended reading enable the reader to attempt a different interpretation. Especially the narrative of the novel based on an ambivalent emotion toward the totality of Puritanism in the 17th century New England and the individuality of transcendentalism in the 19th century helps the reader find that the focus of the narrative moves from Hester Prynne as an individual who rebels against the sternness of a society to pastor Dimmesdale, who has managed to undergo plenty of spiritual wars on the basis of his belief in God. Finally, pastor Dimmesdale, once a fallen and hidden religious leader of the society, reappears as a sincere man of faith, who has cherished and preserved sincere faith in God and taught it to the people of New England until his repentance and death. (Chosun University)

Park, Kyung Sook. “Lack of Ecological Awareness in the Western Catholic Civilization and Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Studies in English Literature & Language 43.2 (2017): 97-116. This paper is to study Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop using an ecological approach. Also it is done by analyzing lack of ecological awareness in the western catholic civilization and its accompanied serious problems and exploring a new concept of civilization which Cather tries to represent through her novel. Under the phrase ‘manifest Destiny’ the natives in Mexico should assimilate into the American culture and catholic religion, and Father Latour, at first, thought that American Indians should adjust their way of living to American culture. His missionary work is closely related to the American expansionism. By meeting with native Americans including Jacinto and Eusabio, Latour finally showed continuous ecological behaviour practice like making a garden and building a cathedral, and it means that he understood and acknowledged life reverence and ecological awareness which the western catholic civilization lacks. In addition, it provides a starting point to recover the civilization in a crisis. (Chonnam National University)

Park, Busoon. “The Harmony of Integration: August Wilson’s Radio Golf.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 43.2 (2017): 117-136. Radio Golf, August Wilson’s play, is the chronologically last play of ten dramas of his famous Pittsburgh Cycle. Although his ten dramas were not written in the order of the chronology, they show chronological African-American life in twentieth-century America. As his ideas change little by little in writing many works, some characters that appear in more than one of the cycle’s plays show changed pictures of life depending on the situation of an era. His passion and effort on Pittsburgh Cycle have created Radio Golf on the brink of his death. Therefore, Radio Golf is the completed work that he sheds continuously new light on African-American life. Wilson argues in Radio Golf that the need for community, unity, connection to the past, and freedom are very important. As a way to appeal to his view like this, he shows the life that dreams of an assimilation into a white society by Mame Wilks and Roosevelt Hicks in the upper-middle class, the life that insists the blackness by Elder Joseph Barlow and Sterling Johnson in the lower class, and the life that produces the harmony of Integration by Harmond Wilks in the upper-middle class. (Chonbuk National University)

Shin, Younghun. “Rethinking of Twain’s Pessimism in The Mysterious Stranger.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 137-158. This article aims to reappraise Twain’s pessimism in his posthumous novella, The Mysterious Stranger. This novella is often referred to as powerful evidence that later Twain had a pessimistic view of human society. This novel can be defined as a bildungsroman where young Satan, the main protagonist and ostensively Twain’s mouthpiece, teaches the narrator to become aware of the bitter and miserable reality of human life. He sneers at and despises the human race for their servility to moral sense and deterministic view of life. However, this novel is a very subversive text in that it discredits what the supernatural mentor is saying by showing his extremely cruel propensity from the onset. This negative quality of Satan causes the reader to sift what he says with a critical eye. As a result, Theodore, the mentee and narrator succeeds in gaining a more balanced perspective of the human race and its destiny. Similarly, it can be said that the author wants, though indirectly and passively, his readers to have a more tolerant and patient view of human society rather than comply with Satan’s fierce misanthropy. (Hansung University)

You, Jeongsuk. “The Red Tent: A Newly Born Woman, Dinah.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 159-179. In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant tries to raise Dinah’s voice and reconstruct her hidden story through “feminine writing”. The Part 3 of the novel, “Egypt”, “re-imagines” Dinah’s life in Egypt after the Shechem’s massacre. Dinah is traumatized from the murder of her beloved in her bed. This paper aims to review the process in which Dinah recovers from her trauma and lives her life as a “newly born woman”. Firstly, She leaves her father’s house and moves to Egypt. In Egypt she lives an isolated, shadowy life in her mother-in-law’s house concealing her status and her past. Secondly, after ten years or so in Egypt, Dinah develops a friendship with Meryt, and starts a job as a midwife. She meets a new lover, Benia, a common carpenter with warmth and gentleness. She becomes “a new soul, reborn” in his constant love. Thirdly, she tells her son the truth about her relationship with Shalem and his murder, and leaves him “brokenhearted but free”. Lastly, she manages to visit her own family to confront her victimizers. There, she hears her own story retold among women in the red tent. She thanks them for their storytelling and forgives her father and brothers from her heart. The author successfully revives Dinah through her storytelling, and in her “feminine writing”. (Jeonju University)

Yu, Jie-Ae. “John Donne’s Metempsychosis: Unraveling the Manifold Deployments of Incorporeal Transmigration.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 181-197. The main purpose of this article is to examine how John Donne’s Metempsychosis deploys the multiple implications of the transmigration of the soul. The author’s treatment of the incorporeal movement is featured by its satirical observations on the tainted facets of both the internal and external worlds of human beings. In Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Donne's last work before his death in 1631, he singles out his evident search for the invisible progress of the soul after one's evaporation. Donne's 1601 poem Metempsychosis, however, initiates his critical approach to the corrupted aspects of man and society, which he expands in An Anatomy of the World (1611) and The Second Anniversary (1612). This paper investigates how the writer anticipates his social and spiritual remedies, along with his five satires written before Metempsychosis. (Changwon National University)

Lee, Youngzun. “John Burningham’s The Magic Bed: On the Illusive Fantasy of Children in the Period of Preoperational Stage in Terms of Primary Transitional Object and Animism.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 199-218. For those children who are in the period of preoperational stage, their dreams and fantasies vividly emerge as real things to them. In their intuitive belief, inanimate objects are received like as those human beings who are living and speaking. They frequently make such illusive fantasies of their own world through their egocentric mind and animism. In The Magic Bed, Georgie has a magic bed which insinuates the absolute fulfillment of his inner wish and desire. For his illusive fantasy, his magic bed occupies the Imaginary place of an ‘object a.’ As a transitional object, it projects a transitional phenomenon to the lack of his mind, while Georgie’s illusions are constructed through the magic bed. In fact the bed is a kind of movie screen where his wishes and desires are illusively materialized. This potential area locates in the ‘middle playground’ between his inner psyche and the presence of his mother. However, as he begins to meet his friends and play with them, he becomes realistic, gradually having his ‘perspective taking’ and understanding the social ways of the real world. (Hannam University)

Yi, Jae Eun. “Evolutionary Analysis of Identity: After Darwin.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 219-243. This study explores Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play, After Darwin and her comparison of the process of variation in the theory of evolution to the shifting identities of modern people. Whereas for animals the aim is reproduction, for humans the aim is evolution for the purpose of exploring these identities. In the play, Darwin and FitzRoy are forced to confront their contrasting world-views. The actors who play them, and also the other characters appearing in this ‘play within a play’ continually come into conflict with each other because of their differing views on existence. But throughout the arguments they never lose the sense of their own individuality. This conflict is one element of culture that evidences the evolution of humans. Culture acts as a pointer towards the evolution of human society. History can be seen as a text recording the evolution of the cultural environment, the symbiosis of the individual, embodying a range of identities, and culture. As with biological evolution, human identities evolve through cultures and histories. Rather than approaching evolution from the standpoint of evolutionary biology, This study sees it as ‘a step by step process of improvement’ individuals, culture and history, which serves to frame discourse within the humanities. (Chungnam National University)

Im, Bora. “William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge in the Newspaper War.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 245-263. 1802 was the year when newspaper war broke out between Britain and France; Napoleon banned all British newspapers from France, while the British press replied to the attack from French newspapers with strong words. To explore the historical event I want to read William Wordsworth’s sonnets composed in 1802: “I Grieved for Buonaparté,” “I Grieved for Buonaparté,” and “Calais, August, 1802.” I hope my discussion will find out how Wordsworth supported Britain's war effort by publishing those patriotic sonnets, which are filled with Francophobia. My reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's essay, “Comparison” will facilitate the understanding of Wordsworth's sonnets mentioned above. In “Comparison” Coleridge showed his patriotism by criticizing the present state of France and praising the British constitution. (Chonbuk National University)

Kim, Okjung & Jo, Miwon. “A Development and Application of an English Co-Teaching Model for Korean English Teachers and Native English Teachers.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 265-298. The purpose of this study is to develop a model of an ideal co-teaching dynamic in a middle school English classroom and to examine the effectiveness. 73 Korean English Teachers (KTs) and 73 Native English Teachers (NTs), all of whom took part in a co-teaching dynamic in a korean middle-school, were given an 80 item questionnaire. Based on the literature review and results from the 80 item survey, a co-teaching model for KTs and NTs was developed. To examine the effectiveness of this newly constructed model, it was tested in 15 middle school classes for a period 4 weeks. The results showed that 15 KTs and 15 NTs who used the model were highly satisfied with their co-teaching classes and that the developed working model was effective for middle school English co-teaching classes. (Kyungnam University)

Oh, Youngju, park, Hyesook & Chang, Soyoung. “The Effects of Learning Style Preferences, Language Learning Strategies on English Proficiency of Korean College Students.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 299-324. This study examines the relationships among learning style preferences, English learning strategies and English proficiency of Korean college students. Four hundred college students participated in the study. The learning style questionnaire was adopted from the Learning Style Survey(LSS) by Cohen, Oxford, Chi(2001) and the English learning strategy questionnaire was adopted from the Strategy Inventory for Language learning(SILL) by Oxford(1990). The participants were asked to self-report on these questionnaires in the classroom. Independent T-test, Analysis of variance and Multiple regression methods were used to analyze the collected data. It was found that (1) participants generally preferred analytical, reflective, visual learning styles in order than others, and learning style preferences slightly differed by gender, academic field, and English proficiency, (2) there were statistically significant differences in the uses of strategy use by English proficiency, (3) learning styles explained almost 23.4 % of language learning strategy use and 6.7 % of English proficiency, (4) learning strategy use explained 18.7 % of English proficiency, having a significant effect on English proficiency. (Kunsan National University)