“두 세계 사이에” : 미들튼 머리와 T S 엘리엇의 모더니티 논쟁

• 영문명: “Between Two Worlds” : J Middleton Murry and T S Eliot on Modernity
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 김태철(Tae-Chul Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제22집, 3~39쪽, 전체 37쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

영문 초록

This essay reads as the critical discourse of modernity the interactions between John Middleton Murry and T S Eliot in the literary journals of the Adelphi and the Criterion in the 1920s, through which approach their debate proves to be no other than diametrically different versions of modernity recognition, and then modernity project, between two worlds. Their controversies can be sorted out into two groups by topics and roughly in time sequence: in the first round of the debate, they form their own different conceptions of classicism and romanticism with the help of the other’s arguments, which serves as the frames of reference for the next one; now in the second, exploring the human soul under modernity, they seek for the possibility of a synthesis between romantic intuition and classical intelligence. Over this debate, the British empiricist Murry identifies romanticism with modernity itself dating back to the Renaissance, and then presents as his project of modernity a fuller realisation of romanticism of his own idiosyncratic understanding. Which is to say a new synthesis of intuition and intelligence into enlightened reason in allusion to the mediaeval Thomist synthesis of reason and faith. On the other hand, the Euro-centric rationalist Eliot expects much of classical intelligence for romanticism to be overcome, and for classical ideals to be restored or, more precisely, for the unified sensibility to be regained and for the integrated intelligence to be revived, which means he is in resolute and unshakable pursuit of a project of modernity. In the course of their eight-year-long interactions, it transpires, Murry elaborates on the recognition of modernity rather than on its project, and Eliot does the other way round. In other words, both of them fail to represent their contemporary stage of ever-deepening modernity fully enough in their discourse of modernity. Theirs remain as unfinished projects of modernity.

목차

글머리에

I. 고전주의와 낭만주의

II. 영국적 속성

III. 고전적 지성과 낭만적 직관 코다

키워드

미들튼 머리 T S 엘리엇 고전주의 낭만주의 비평적 모더니티담론 모더니티인식 모더니티기획 J Middleton Murry T S Eliot classicism romanticism the critical discourse of modernity the recognition of modernity the project of modernity