존 바스의 『연초 도매상』

• 영문명: John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor: Creative Writing through Parody of History
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 김령희(Young Hee Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제96호, 65~83쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.09.30

영문 초록

Starting from his manifested intention to make up a plot that is fancier than Tom Jones, John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor is a historical or mock-historical novel inspired by the satirical poem of Ebenezer Cooke, who actually did exist, but about whom little is known. To fulfill the task to outdo his precursor, Barth deploys the true facts of American colonial history and the eighteenth-century notions of the dynamic picaresque, twisting and integrating them into a massive fiction by using parody as a real critical technique which reflects his own moral vision. This paper aims to illuminate the way Barth deals with history, by analyzing two leading characters, Ebenezer Cooke and Henry Burlingame III, and two main documents of the past, A Secret Historie and The Privie Journal. Ebenezer is the American Adam, a central figure of the theme of innocence, and Burlingame is a shape-shifter constantly searching for his true identity. Unorthodox records of Captain John Smith and Henry Burlingame give modern readers a glimpse into American history as it was, including a very different version of the Pocahontas episode. What Barth seeks through a network of intricate incidents and relations in this long, expansive novel is the manipulation of the past to prove history to be as fictive as his own work. In the process, Barth re-invents the universe of the eighteen-century English novels and attempts to imitate art and life with his full potential for artistic development.

목차

I. 서 론

II. 순수에서 경험으로: 에브니저 쿠크

III. 과거의 탐색: 헨리 벌링검 3세

IV. 『비밀 역사』 대 『개인 일기』: 존 스미스와 헨리 벌링검 1세

V. 결 론

키워드

존 바스 『연초 도매상』 역사 패러디 에브니저 쿠크 메릴랜드 존 스미스 포카혼타스 John Barth The Sot-Weed Factor history parody Ebenezer Cooke Maryland John Smith Pocahontas