소설에 나타나는 도시의 공간·문화·주체성의 문제 - 『위대한 유산』(Great Expectations)과 『위대한 개츠비』(The Great Gatsby) 비교시론(試論)
Space, Culture and Subjectivity in the Cities of Novels: A Comparative Study of Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby
- 발행
- 2014
- 소속·발행
- 중앙대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- 원문등록
- 2014-07-07
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개념
키워드
『위대한 유산』, 『위대한 개츠비』, 공간, 문화, 주체성, 앙리 르페브르, 도시, 뉴욕, 런던, 자본주의, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, Space, Culture, Subjectivity, Henri Lefebvre, City, New York, London, Capitalism
초록
The problems of cities in modern civilization have been hot issues in literary studies. Quite recently literary and cultural theories have deeply concerned with space, culture and subjectivity in the literary works. In reading those spaces of capitalist cities, like London in Great Expectations and New York in The Great Gatsby, we can get closer to understanding many conflicts around modern cities, in which the consciousness of subjects is controlled by a variety of cultural effects from the city space with an exchange value. The aim of the paper is to examine the possibility of the trans-disciplinary approach to reading spaces in the novel through the so-called ‘consilience’ with the space theory in the social studies.
 In Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre, a French Marxist philosopher and theorist of space argues that the history of human beings has developed the four major spatial stages ‘absolute space’, ‘historical space’, ‘abstract space’ and ‘differential space.’ He claims that modern cities are ruled by the effects of the ‘abstract space’ in which modern thoughts have been developed with the rising of capitalist cities. Both London and New York are well-known as core