심미적 감수성의 회복과 포스트휴먼 창의적 글쓰기: 리처드 파워즈의 『관대함』

• 영문명: Resilience of Aesthetic Sensitivity and Posthuman Creative Writing: Richard Powers’s Generosity
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이정희(Chung-Hee Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』제29집 2호, 229~260쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.09.30

국문 초록

This study explores how Algerian immigrant Thassa is brought to life through her writing teacher Russell Stone’s imaginative rewriting in Richard Powers’s Generosity. Her habitual joy and vitality attract the media attention, leading to the commercialization of her genes in a postgenomic consumer society and ultimately to her disillusionment in the pursuit of happiness. The novel traces Russell’s the process of recognition and transformation. Russell overcomes his writer’s block and fear of criticism, abandons escapist writing, and reclaims his aesthetic and ethical engagement to help others. Generosity offers a vitalist posthuman perspective, highlighting mutual entanglement beyond binaries like technology vs. nature or reason vs. emotion. It promotes postanthropocentrism and interdisciplinary reciprocity, urging openness, empathy, and community in the digital age. Russell’s ‘creative nonfiction’ illustrates the links between emotional resilience, quality of life, and narrative in a genomics-driven society. Ultimately, the novel proposes cognitive flexibility, emotional expression, empathy, and cooperation with the others as posthuman vitalist ethics for fostering the adaptive community and a more humane future.

목차

1. 서론

2. 포스트휴머니즘 미학에서 심미적 감수성 역량 향상의 중요성

3. 유전체 기술과 미디어 지향적 사회에서 행복 추구의 환상

4. 메타 내러티브를 통한 재작성과 수정 과정

5. 창의적 논픽션의 재작성을 통한 생명의식 제시

6. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

리처드 파워즈 『관대함: 향상』 포스트휴먼 미학 후기인간중심주의 심미적 감수성 Richard Powers Generosity: An Enhancement posthumanist aesthetics postanthropocentrism aesthetic sensitivity