난센스의 수사학

• 영문명: Rhetoric of Nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 이강훈
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제26집, 39~52쪽, 전체 14쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.06.30

영문 초록

In the literary tradition based on “mimesis,” nonsense, one of the important literary devices has been ignored until the Victorian era when Lewis Carroll’s Alice books enjoyed great popularity. In fact, Carroll’s nonsense helps to understand the logical fallacies and limit of the existing view on language, to recognize the possibility of autonomous and creative language as an alternative to the reflective, mimetic function of the language. However, Carroll’s nonsense has not been systematically studied and the lack of interest in nonsense features in his works keeps nonsense from developing as a useful literary device. This paper, for that reason, aims to study the general characteristic features of Carroll’s nonsense, and to show how they can have autonomous, creative function with their own rules and logic. The existing linguistic system is based on the stable semiotic relation between the signifier and the signified. Carroll’s nonsense makes it problematic by the surplus of the signifier and the lack of the signified, therefore revealing the randomness and logical blind spots in the existing linguistic system. Nonsense is a verbal play and it depends on rules and order as play does. As the object of play, language is manipulated and arranged artificially. Through this manipulation, nonsense as a play achieves its own fictional rules and makes another autonomous linguistic system of meaning seem possible. This is the specific features of Carroll’s nonsense. And the study of nonsense as a literary device shows the specific relation between the creativity of language and play.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 난센스의 기능과 양상

Ⅲ. 놀이와 규칙

Ⅳ. 결론

참고문헌

Abstract

키워드

난센스 루이스 캐롤 놀이 과잉과 부재 규칙 Nonsense Lewis Carroll play surplus and lack rule