언어와 소통에 대한 메타픽션: 존 파울즈의 불쌍한 코코 , 수수께끼 , 구름

• 영문명: Metafiction about Language and Communication: John Fowles’s “Poor Koko,” “The Enigma,” “The Cloud”
• 발행기관: 조선대학교 국제문화연구원
• 저자명: 백혜진(Baek, Hyejin)
• 간행물 정보: 『국제문화연구』Vol.10 No.2, 203~231쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.12.31

영문 초록

John Fowles, famous for writing The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, certainly deserves to be called a pioneer of postmodernism novels, attacking the inauthentic lifestyle blinded by the reason in seemingly unusual ways of an author’s narration, clever implication and description. Besides, his collection of stories, The Ebony Tower—one novella “The Ebony Tower,” one translation “Eliduc,” and three short stories, “Poor Koko,” “The Enigma,” and “The Cloud”—integrates the works in thematic and formal ways. However, the precedent studies have not covered the last three stories much except for the first two works. It is important to analyze The Ebony Tower collectively because the book means a watershed leading to the writer’s later works such as Daniel Martin and Mantissa. This paper aims to find out the common theme of the stories and observe the writer’s literary world. This analysis reveals that the three works are closely related to the relationship between language and communication. “Poor Koko” emphasizes the tradition of language for connecting statuses and generations; “The Enigma” points at the collapse of rationalism represented by language resulting in the absence of communication; and “The Cloud” is concerned about the fragmented aspect of language producing the disconnection of communication. I wish this study contributes to expanding research area of postmodernism novels through Fowles’s works.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 불쌍한 코코 : 계급과 세대 간 소통과 언어

Ⅲ. 수수께끼 : 이성주의의 몰락과 소통의 부재

Ⅳ. 구름 : 언어의 파편성과 소통의 단절

Ⅴ. 결론

키워드

language and communication “Poor Koko” “The Enigma” “The Cloud” self-recognition