프루프록의 분열된 자아에 나타난 철학적 함의

• 영문명: Philosophical Connotations As Reflected in Prufrock's Split Self
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 이문재(Lee Mun-Jae)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제16권 제2호, 167~191쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.12.30

영문 초록

Mun-Jae LeeFor the postmodern theorists, Derrida and Foucault, the 'death of subject' means the disappearance of subject that can exist independently from his present cultural or social situations, that is, the absence of the rational or autonomous subject. The precursor of postmodernism, Nietzsche's proposition that God is dead points out that our past metaphysical tradition has broken down, resulting in the present axiological anarchy.On the other hand, for the modernist writers, such as Eliot and Joyce, the present world lacks the frames of reference for their literary characters to live by, even though the characters, not to mention their own writers, never stop to search for them, including the eastern and western religions. At least for the time, their characters, for example, Prufrock, Gerontion, Stephen, and Bloom, never possess the positive identities, which in turn prove to be the split selves. In particular, Prufrock as a character typical of Eliot's early poetry shows his uncertain and sometimes split self, which seems to be partially due to his own strong self-consciousness. Noticeably, the self-consciousness cannot be thought without the modern intellectual development, to which the seventeenth-century scientific revolution and Cartesian dualistic rationalism have contributed. Prufrock's characteristic split consciousnesses or selves reflect his contemporary world's epistemological changes rather than his own microcosmic world. In a sense, the “dissociation of sensibility”, one of Eliot's major critical terms, indicates the literary situation which our epistemological changes since the seventeenth-century, including philosophical or scientific development, have brought along.

목차

1. 들어가는 말

2. 다양한 주체 개념

3. 텍스트 속에서의 프루프록

4. 동시대적 산물로서의 프루프록

5. 맺는 말

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엘리엇 주체 분열된 자아 자의식 모더니즘 탈근대 Eliot subject split self self-consciousness modernism postmodern