The purpose of this paper is to analyse the co-relationship between science fiction and literary imagination revealed in Edgar allan Poe’s works. Poe, who is called the father of science fiction novels, showed luxuriant imagination of science fiction in his many works such as essays, poems, short stories, and novels. Poe lived in the age of the fast advancement of science and technology in the areas of chemistry and electricity enough to change the whole frame of natural philosophy. Various discoveries, experiments, and inventions happened continuously in order to realize new thoughts and ideas which could bring more convenience to our lives. Poe also had a big interest and curiosity in the social phenomenon and transition as well as in science. He was very sensitive to the scientific development like other writers in the early nineteenth century. Therefore, this article will focus on how Poe exercises his literary imagination in his science fiction works such as “Eureka: A Prose Poem,” “The Balloon-Hoax,” and “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall.” (Chungnam National University)

In Desert Exile, Yoshiko Uchida remembers the pain and shame of Japanese American internment during the World War Ⅱ. After Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, her family was transferred to an internment camp in Topaz, Utah. Uchida recalls that she had lost her dignity as human beings in the camp. Being interned in the camp, she couldn’t help but feel depressed and helpless. Actually, the feelings of rage and fear felt by Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated and interned in the camps were turned inward, leading to feelings of depression and shame. After the World War Ⅱ, however, Uchida had the opportunity to stay and study in Japan as a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellow. Her experience in Japan was very positive and restorative though the evacuation had been negative and depleting. When she came home, Uchida became aware of a new dimension to herself as a Japanese American. As a Japanese American writer writing her own experience and perception, she now hopes that Japanese American’s unfair and disgraceful incarceration history, due in large part to racism, won’t ever happen again. (Paichai University)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concepts of aporia and negation in Kennedy’s A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. Aporia (originating from the German word “aporie”) means “impasse, difficulty in passage” or “state of puzzlement.” It is the organizing principle behind all Kennedy’s plays, and represents the reality faced by the black women featuring in her works, who have ‘tainted blood,’ and no definition other than neither/nor. In this paper, I also connect the themes of ‘denial’ and ‘negation’ in Kennedy’s play with Theodor W. Adorno’s ideas related to ‘darkness’ and ‘negation.’ According to Adorno, the authentic power of negation stems from darkness and torture. Kennedy uses physical torments such as excessive bleeding, static blood and paralysis to embody a gloomy, negative outlook. However, Kennedy never backs off in twilight(the boundary between life and death), but instead employs negation as a means of resistance and survival to (re)locate African-American women’s own places. (Namseoul University)

The purpose of this paper is to find the common points and differences between the two languages by studying the movement and traces of English and Korean. It is to make sure that there is no inconvenience in understanding and using more exact meaning in actual language life. There are common points between English and Korean movements, but there are also differences. The movement of English can be generally divided into three kinds. They are NP-movement, SAI movement and Wh-movement and are relatively limited movements. Korean movement can be divided into five categories: subject movement, mystery movement, shuffling, nuclear movement, and post-supplementation. The English movements show relatively limited movements, whereas the Korean movements show free movements. When English or Korean move, the moved elements leave traces in the position before the original movement. Based on the principle of public category, it does not appear voiced, but it is the place where it appears internally. According to the trace theory, the position before moving and the moving elements should be the index and satisfy not only Chomsky’s binding theory, but also the conditions of antecedent governance and minimality. (Jeju National University)

No less than Wordsworth, Coleridge, as is shown in his notebooks, had a deep interest in the natural phenomena, the scenery, and the eco-community as a dweller in the Lake District. Moreover, his major poems, including the conversation poems and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” successfully embody his ecological experiences and perceptions of the natural world as an interdependent eco-community characterized by variety, complexity, and symbiosis. While “The Eolian Harp” presents his concept of “one Life” as a part of his metaphysical speculation in a transcendental vein, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” and “The Nightingale” enact in a more persuasive way the drama of the mind of the speaker that comes to discover the intrinsic value and the mysterious complexity of the natural world through his real experiences in it. Unlike them, “The Ancient Mariner,” in a dense narrative structure, intriguingly dramatizes such ecological themes as the interrelation and interdependence of all things, the sense of dwelling on the earth, and the right of animals. (PaiChai University)

The purpose of this paper is to analyze Herzog in Saul Bellow’s Herzog, focusing on Donald Winnicott 's concept of ‘Holding.’ Winnicott argues that infants develop through relationships with their mother as a first object in child care. The mother provides the necessary environment for the infant and plays a role in solving the tension and anxiety that the infant may have. So if the infant does not receive early enough good care, he experiences psychological anxiety, fear, and mental pathology. This examines whether Herzog is in a good enough holding environment. Herzog recalls what happened to him through his retrospection of the reality he was in. Although he was once a promising scholar and intellectual person, he failed to meet the object to promote his growth, and became mentally confused. The absence of enough holding of women around him hindered the growth to his true self. As a result, he remained helpless, unable to do anything but write letters that were not sent. The failure of holding made Herzog a helpless person by limiting the activity of his true self. However, Ramona allowed him maternal care. In other words, the special relationship with her that gives enough good holding made him an opportunity to express his true self. So he turns into a person who can quit writing letters that are a sign of psychological anxiety and can act actively. Ramona's holding shows the possibility for Herzog's self recovery. (Jeonju University)

The aim of this study is to discuss the asymmetry of English and Korean based on the goal of motion construction (GMC). According to Talmy’s proposal, verb-framed languages like Korean and satellite-framed languages like English are different regarding how they express the goal of motion construction. While Korean encodes path into complex verbs with directional verb like ka (go) creating a serial verb construction, the expression of path in English is always via some satellites (preposition or particles) and motion verbs typically encode only a manner component. In this study, I investigate how motion verbs and goal prepositions interact syntactically and semantically when they are combined to express goal motion events. Adopting a view of l-syntax starting from Folli & Ramchand (2005) and Ramchand (2008), I propose that the crucial clue regarding the asymmetry between English and Korean GMC comes from how they encode the telicity. When GMC license telic accomplishment interpretation, the goal PP in English functions as a secondary resultative predicate and contributes to bounded reading of the whole sentence (Beavers & Koontz-Garboden, 2012; Gulgowski, 2013; Lee, 2011; Son & Svenonius, 2008; Zubizarreta & Oh, 2008), but Korean encodes the telicity into complex verbs with directional verb such as go/come. (Namseoul University)

Modern Studiesin English language & Literature 62.4 (2018): 143-68. This study aims to examine the modernity of Shakespeare by comparing the original version Hamlet and three films of Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and Michael Almereyda that were produced in Hollywood during the Second Shakespeare Renaissance period (1990-2000). Zeffirellis “Hamlet”, released in 1990, shows the mid-and late 80’s social issues of weakened masculinity through the image of Mel Gibson’s Hollywood action hero. Branagh’s “Hamlet” (1996) depicts the political situation of the late 1990s by reflecting the uncertainty and ambiguity of late 20th century in accordance faithfully with Shakespeare’s political point of view in his original text. Almereyda’s “Hamlet 2000”(2001) discusses social issues related to high rates of teenager suicide, drugs addiction and gunfires in the United States of 21st century. (PaiChai University)

As a children's novel, Coraline is a psychological fantasy of a young girl, Coraline. After moving into a new flat house, she can not make a friendship with her old aged neighbors. As her parents are too busy to play with her, she is completely isolated, feeling lonely and suffering emptiness. Being charged by the autistic impulses indicated in her insomnia, she creates a dreamlike fantasy world of doll’s house. However, this act completely blocks every interrelationship with people. In fact this is a transitional phenomenon overshadowed by the fantasy world of autism, reflecting the negative presence of the mother. In that illusive place, she meets three ghost children who were tempted by the beldam, thus losing their lifes and souls; they symbolizes the children who have autism. Coraline encounters the terrible danger of her life as she almost falls down to autism. Nonetheless, she overcomes her autistic impulse by removing all the negative feelings against her mother. As mother has an important role for autistic children, by reestablishing a mature relationship with her mother, Coraline finally conquers her autistic symptoms. (Hannam University)

The Reef is regarded as a turning point of Edith Wharton’s career as a writer. Wharton had been regarded as an aloof and aristocratic writer until her letters to Morton Fullerton were published in 1980. The letters to Fullerton reveal her passionate affair with him in which she experienced the ecstasy of sexual love for the first time in her life. Wharton was able to write about the new volatile psycho-sexual feelings and women’s sexuality more openly since then. The Reef can be said the first novel which shows Wharton’s changed attitudes toward women’s passion and sexuality after the affair. My goal in the article is to examine the ways Wharton represents the power of sexuality through the bodies of her female characters in the Reef. Sophy is the embodiment of the dark terrain of female sexuality, the presence of the female body. Darrow and Anna try to decipher Sophy, but Sophy is a submerged text, as well as the ‘reef,’ on which the ship of Darrow and Anna’s lives founders. Wharton criticizes the cultural construction which contains the female sexuality in this work. The author invites her readers to look what is a real “reef,” which she thinks is the patriarchal myths about women. (Duksung Women’s University)