정보의 감염, 감정의 변이

• 영문명: Information Contagion and Emotional Variations: Reading Through the Pandemic Period in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이동환(Dong-hwan Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제25집 1호, 5~32쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.04.30

영문 초록

This study aims to examine how Christopher Boone─the first person autistic narrator in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time─ processes a large influx of outside information, which accompanies the emotional turmoil of the adults around him. Christopher imposes series of personal logics on indeterminacies happening around him, controls pieces of information that are physically transmitted, and focuses on solving math and science problems to prevent his cognitive disruption. For him, the storming of outside information is likened to a rapid virus spread in point that people try to keep social distancing, wear facemasks, and get vaccine shots. Insofar as the adults are drawn into Christopher’s eccentricities caused by a whirl of information overflow, they cannot help being caught by anger, frustration, and helplessness. The fear of information processing breakdown triggers off the dissemination of diverse negative feelings. Thus The Curious Incident can be perceived as a symbolic representation of information contagion and emotional variations in the pandemic period.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며: 팬데믹 시대의 정보처리와 감정조절 문제

Ⅱ. 숫자와 논리추론으로 구성된 세상

Ⅲ. 수리추론의 한계: 밀려드는 정보, 요동치는 감정

Ⅳ. 나가며: 팬데믹 시대의 문학텍스트 읽기

키워드

마크 해던 의문의 사건 자폐 팬데믹 정보처리 텍스트 읽기 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time autism pandemic information emotion text reading