문학교육에서 시적 정의와 법적 정의가 충돌할 때: 수잔 글라스펠의 Trifles와 결혼이주민여성 사례를 중심으로
A Pedagogical Approach to Poetic Justice versus Legal Justice in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles
- 발행
- 2013
- 소속·발행
- 연세대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- 원문등록
- 2013-01-01
- 원문
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개념
키워드
수잔 글라스펠, 『사소한 것들』, 시적 정의, 법적 정의, 결혼이주민여성, Susan Glaspell, Trifles, poetic justice, legal justice, immigrant women married to Koreans
초록
Susan Glaspell’s Trifles offers an opportunity to discuss the relationship between poetic justice and legal justice in a literary text, which has been a topic of great controversy in a college level classroom. The debate over whether a murderer of her husband should have the right to earn sympathy from other women in the community, the readers, and the audience is worthy of attention, because it provides an opportunity to discuss the chasm between poetic and legal justices. In contemporary literature, poetic justice has become a relative term, unlike in the classical, Renaissance, and Neoclassical literature, since the clear binary between virtue and vice has been blurred and challenged. Jacques Derrida argues that law is force, not justice. In other words, people obey laws, not because they are just but because they have authority, and that law claims to exercise itself in the name of justice based upon its political power. Knowing that justice can be an undecidable idea which requires constant negotiation and experience, teaching a literary text must provide students with an opportunity to identify with the characters’ situations and emotions so the students can understand the a