<몽옥쌍봉연록-곽장양문록> 연작의 곽분양 수용 양상과 그 의미
This study aims to analyze the reception and significance of the character Gwak Bunyang in the Mongokssangbongyeonrok and GwakJangYangmunrok Series. This series is a Korean full-length novel depicting the story of Jang Hong and his descendants. Its literary and historical value is underscored by the fact that Lady Seong, a royal concubine of King Jeongjo, transcribed GwakJangYangmunrok, which enables scholars to estimate the time of its transcription and offers insight into the appreciation of Korean long novels within the royal court. The series consists of two parts: Mongokssangbongyeonrok, which centers on the heroic deeds and marriage of Jang Hong, and GwakJangYangmunrok, which focuses on the marriages of his descendants. Since Gwak Bunyang’s family is portrayed as one of the key families connected to Jang Hong and his descendants through marriage, it is essential to examine how Gwak Bunyang is depicted in the narrative. The modes of reception of Gwak Bunyang in Mongokssangbongyeonrok and GwakJangYangmunrok differ. In Mongokssangbongyeonrok, he is framed chiefly as a military hero. On the other hand, in GwakJangYangmunrok, he is cast as the head of the lineage. This contrast aligns with late-Joseon patterns of cultural enjoyment in the court and literati households. The shift visible in Gwak Bunyang Haengnakdo—from emphasizing martial prowess to highlighting prosperity and blessing—parallels the series’ separate narrativization of “heroic” and “prosperous” Gwak Bunyang. Haengnakdo was especially popular at court and among elites, a fact that resonates with the palace transcription of the Mongokssang- bongyeonrok-GwakJangYangmunrok series. This indicates that the cultural code centered on Gwak Bunyang operated not only in painting but also in narrative; the series likely mobilized that code as a narrative strategy. Whereas paintings and short fiction tend to isolate a single code, the linked form of the series keeps the “military” and “prosperity/blessing” strands apart at the work level yet integrates them as a dual code at the level of the whole. Accordingly, the series is significant not only to the history of the Korean long novel but also to broader cultural-historical currents.
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- 10.1353/bio.2019.0005
- Jan 1, 2019
- Biography
Independent Biographical DocumentariesThe Year in China Chen Shen (bio) Recently, the number of independent documentaries has grown rapidly in China. In the 1990s, independent documentaries usually focused on life and social problems at the bottom of society, reflecting the producers' personal concerns and suspicions about mainstream presentations of reality. These early independent documentaries, however, were supplements to mainstream documentaries, and mostly coarse productions, with barely sufficient narrative or editing skills, and little public influence. Many of them also had very limited releases, appearing in the cinema for only one day due to their unattractiveness. Recently, however, several independent biographical documentaries represent a major advance in the field, displaying not only their producers' brilliant conceptions and shooting techniques, but also arousing a great deal of public discussion. Among them, Twenty Two, The Verse of Us, and The Last Stickmen of City Chongqing are good examples. Twenty Two is a documentary about Chinese sex slave victims in World War II, the first movie released publically on this subject in Mainland China. The documentary was shown on August 14, 2017, and earned 170 million Yuan, a record-breaking box office. It has generated intense discussion on network forums and positive commentary from many movie reviewers. A biographical documentary seldom draws so much public attention—and even less often does one generate profits as high as more commercial movies. The success of Twenty Two resulted from its content, its narrative strategies, and its mode of transmission. The director Kuo Ke had already made a 43-minute documentary entitled Thirty Two in 2012, which records the story of survivor Wei Shaolan and her Japanese son Luo Shanxue. Thirty Two won some international film awards and raised viewer interest in the topic, but it could not be released at that time. Wei Shaolan's story was representative of the thirty-two living Chinese survivors in 2012. Two years later, when Kuo Ke restarted the project, only twenty-two were left. The director went through Heilong Jiang, Shanxi, Hubei, Guangxi, and Hainan provinces, interviewing all of these survivors; Twenty Two is [End Page 28] a documentary designed to preserve the memory of these women. It is estimated that there were 200,000 or more victims. Only eight were alive when the film was shown, and even fewer today. The survivors' testimony was videotaped, and preserved important first-hand oral history records of the women. The director asked all the victims to talk about their traumatic experience. Most were about 90 years old, and their neighbors, and even their children, did not know about their humiliating personal history before. To avoid receiving special or different treatment from others, most victims refused to talk about their experience. Many silent frames appear on the screen, and only a few women tell relatively complete stories. Mao Yinmei talked about her childhood in Korea. Abandoned by her mother, she was then caught and forced to be a sex slave. She could still remember some Japanese words. Lin Hailan talked about her heroic deeds, including stealing the enemy's bullets and stealthily transporting them to the Chinese army. She also described the violent behavior of the Japanese at the station. Li Meijin provided some details about Japanese atrocities in her village, and her relationship with her husband after coming back from captivity. But most survivors remained silent in the scenes, or collapsed during their narration. To record their current living conditions, the director shot their daily lives, including activities such as cloth-washing, cooking, and entertainments with other old people. Most of these women, however, have lived lonely and dreary later lives. Their current bad conditions and the past interact to create this unfortunate destiny. The director also interviewed family members and others who helped the survivors during these later years, reflecting different aspects of their lives. Korean cameraman An Shihong expressed his sympathy for the women's current living conditions, and claimed his purpose for interviewing them was to make more people aware of their situation, and therefore provide support. Chen Houzhi, a farm worker who had spent sixteen years helping these women and collecting materials for a lawsuit, nevertheless felt that asking them to remember their traumatic experiences was a...
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- 10.34739/his.2023.12.16
- Aug 26, 2023
- Historia i Świat
The Kazakh folk epic talks about the heroic deeds and life of nomadic tribes, being the historical and cultural heritage of the nation, which has been passed from mouth to mouth for centuries, thereby preserving national memory and contributing to the maintenance of patriotic feelings. The purpose of this article is not only to consider the Kazakh epic in the traditional vein of narrating about the historical past, but also to emphasize its ethnographic and genealogical value. By analyzing epic poetry, folk songs and folklore in general, as well as examining fragments of individual works, the authors recreate a holistic picture of the genealogical basis of the folk epic. The article compares the differences in the traditions of the Kazakh epic poetry of the 16th-18th and 19th centuries, which are observed, first of all, in the compositional structure, the subject of the story, the worldview in general. According to the results of the study, it was determined that the genealogical basis of the Kazakh folk epic lies in a certain archetype of a hero, the only son born to become a defender of the honor and dignity of the nation. At the same time, special attention is paid to describing its origin through a poetic description of its family tree. From this follows the complex genre of the epic chronicle, which has artistic and historical value and is an example of spiritual heritage. This study is of practical use for specialists in the field of history, literature, ethnography and genealogy.
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- 10.6000/1929-4409.2013.02.42
- Oct 30, 2013
- International Journal of Criminology and Sociology
Today we see an increase in the usage of the term hero. Especially in the media, the term is applied not only to those who do specific heroic deeds but to entire professions, e.g., the military. In this paper, we analyze the media’s social construction of military heroes with respect to four individuals, two fictional characters and two real people. We argue that four themes are essential to the construction of the military hero whether for fictional or real people: a biography; strength of purpose; gender; and the reinforcement of national values. Once constructed in the media, the hero often contributes to political ends by reinforcing national values. More specifically, in their construction military heroes reflect and reproduce ideologies that legitimate the state and its military aggressiveness.
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- Dec 1, 2024
- SAECULUM
Published in 1924, José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex (La vorágine) is still one of the best Colombian novels, highly appreciated not only for its historical value and importance, but also for its new narrative strategies, exquisitely used by the author. The book implies the young writer’s attempt to document certain harsh realities of his native country, being at the same time a modernist approach to literature, an original attempt to impose the cartographic illusion within the context of Latin American literature, usually inclined, at least up to that time, to express mostly the traditional element.
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- 10.52799/jah.2021.06.40.141
- Jun 30, 2021
- Misulsa Yeongu : Journal of Art History
Gelatin dry plates produced in Korea during the colonial era by the Japanese Government-General show some late-Joseon Buddhist craftworks at temples currently in North Korea, such as Buddhist temple bells and incense burners. These include five bells from the seventeenth century, one from the eighteenth century, another from the nineteenth century, and the Jade Gui-shaped Incense Burner and Gilt-bronze Ding-shaped Incense Burner at Yujeomsa Temple.<BR> Among the late-Joseon Buddhist temple bells depicted in gelatin dry plates are the Bell with Inscription of the Sixth Year (1633) of the Reign of Emperor Chongzhen and Bell with Inscription of the Fifth Year of the Reign of Emperor Shunzhi at Seokwangsa Temple; Bell with Inscription of the Tenth Year of the Reign of Emperor Kangxi and another bell from the late seventeenth century at Gwijusa Temple; the Bell with Inscription of the Thirtieth Year(1691) of the Reign of Emperor Kangxi at Seongbulsa Temple; Bell with Inscription of the Forty-seventh Year (1708) of the Reign of Emperor Kangxi at Jangansa Temple; and Bell with Inscription of the Tenth Year (1830 or Gyeongin Year) of the Reign of Emperor Daoguang. The artisans who produced them can be identified based on the inscriptions and styles of these bells. For example, Cheonbo (天宝) participated in the production of the Bell with Inscription of the Sixth Year of the Reign of Emperor Chongzhen at Seokwangsa Temple; Jijun (智俊) and Taehaeng (太行) worked on the Bell with Inscription of the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of Emperor Kangxi at Seongbulsa Temple; Sain (思印) was involved in the creation of the bell from the late seventeenth century at Gwijusa Temple; Yi Hae-jun (李海俊) and Keukryeon (剋連) created the Bell with Inscription of the Forty-seventh Year of the Reign of Emperor Kangxi at Jangansa Temple; and Yi Man-uk (李萬郁) and Jang Min-cheol (張敏喆) were connected to the Bell with Inscription of the Tenth Year of the Reign of Emperor Daoguang.<BR> As for other bells whose inscriptions do not include the names of the artisans involved, stylistic characteristics can be applied to suggest artisans who might have participated in their production. The creation of the Bell with Inscription of the Fifth Year of the Reign of Emperor Shunzhi at Seokwangsa Temple is likely connected to Jeongu (淨祐), Sinwon (信元), Woneung (元應), and Jijun, all of whom were active in the early and mid-seventeenth century. In the case of the Bell with Inscription of the Tenth Year of the Reign of Emperor Kangxi at Gwijusa Temple, Daehwasa Chwicheong (大化士 醉淸) is presumed to have participated in its production. According to the “List of Properties in Gwijusa Temple Based on the Revised Temple Law,” Chwicheong is recorded as the maker of its bell. However, whether or not he was a monk artisan is unclear.<BR> The gelatin dry plates of these Buddhist temple bells are significant in that they reveal that many seventeenth-century bell-casting artisans, including Cheonbo, Jijun, Taehaeng, and Sain, were active in a broader area than had been previously known as they participated in the creation of bells for temples in both present-day South and North Korea. It is also meaningful that works by these artisans have been identified beyond those known from written historical records.<BR> The gelatin dry plates from North Korean regions show only two incense burners: the Jade Gui-shaped Incense Burner and the Gilt-bronze Ding-shaped Incense Burner. Both were used at Yujeomsa Temple. The late-Joseon royal court imported these Ming and Qing copies of Chinese ancient bronze or jade vessels and bestowed them on the royal temple Yujeomsa. The Ding-shaped Incense Burner that King Jeongjo bestowed upon Yongjusa Temple is a classic example of the offerings given by the royal court to its temples during the late Joseon period. These two incense burners at Yujeomsa Temple are also noteworthy in that they demonstrate the use of copies of ancient Chinese bronze or jade vessel imported by the Joseon royal court before the reign of King Jeongjo.
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- 10.37052/ml35(1)no2
- Jun 3, 2022
- Malay Literature
This paper discusses dream as a narrative strategy in selected classical Malay texts. The discussion covers six Malay historiographical texts: Sulalatus Salatin, Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai, Hikayat Banjar, Tuhfat Al-Nafis, Babad Tanah Jawa and Syair Peperangan Aceh. Mieke Bal's narrative theory (2017) is used as the main method of discussion. In her book, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (2017), Bal presents 12 important characteristics in narrative theory; event, character, time, location, plot, repetition, focalization, text, author, description, narrative stages and ideology. Based on the analysis, the characteristics can be condensed into five categories: text (theme, point of view, repetition, description, narrative stages, plot, and focalization), author, setting (time, place, and event), ideology and character. However, the discussion of this paper uses one element only, which is the author's ideology. The findings intend to show the author's ideology in using dream as one of the narrative strategies to highlight the sovereignty and veneration of the Malay kings. The study's results prove that dream was used as a narrative strategy by the past royal court authors.
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- 10.1007/978-3-319-44321-8_31
- Jan 1, 2018
Both departments are parts of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology within the Georg-August-University of Gottingen. Their fields of interest partly overlap which is reflected also in the composition of their scientific collections. The Department of Forest Zoology and Forest Conservation holds a comprehensive collection of the birds of Lower Saxony with about 500 specimens and the historical collection of W.G. Glimmann that comprises birds of prey, owls and wildfowl. Also the insect collection has a considerable historic value: some of the 35,000 specimens were collected by the famous entomologists J.T.C. Ratzeburg and A. Forster. According to the original focus of the Department of Wildlife Sciences, its collection comprises a huge selection of trophies, especially antlers or horns of typical game species. Of historic value are the obsolete game tag register of Germany and some relicts of the royal Hanoverian hunting court, which was dissolved in 1868. Currently, the collection is being rearranged to highlight the important roles that wild animals play in maintaining the functionality and resilience of ecosystems.
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- 10.2307/3194817
- Jan 1, 1987
- Modern Language Studies
Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense -- and making narrative -- out of the comforts and discomforts of its historical moment.Howard believes that naturalism accomodates the sense of perilousness, uncertainty, and disorder that many Americans felt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She argues for a redefinition of the form which allows it to be seen as an immanent ideology responding to a specific historical situation. Working both from accepted definitions of naturalism and from close analysis of the literary texts themselves, Howard consructs a new description of the genre in terms of its thematic antinomies, patterns of characterization, and narrative strategies. She defines a range of historical and cultural reference for the ideas and images of American naturalism and suggests that the form has affinities with such contemporary ideologies as political progressivism and criminal anthropology. In the process, she demonstrates that genre criticism and historical analysis can be combined to create a powerful method for writing literary history.Throughout Howard's study, the concept of genre is used not as a prescriptive straitjacket but as a category allowing the perception of significant similarities and differences among literary works and the coordination of textual analysis with the history of literary and social forces. For Howard, naturalism is a dynamic solution to the problem of generating narrative from the particular historical and cultural materials available to the authors.Originally published in 1985.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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- 10.1353/vcr.2017.0007
- Jan 1, 2017
- Victorian Review
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- 10.22492/ijmcf.2.1.04
- Jul 1, 2014
- IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
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- Jan 28, 2008
- European Journal of American Culture
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- Dec 1, 2019
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- Nov 15, 2021
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