휘트먼의 시에 나타난 카니발적 세계관

• 영문명: Walt Whitman's Carnivalesque World View
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 이광운(Kwang-woon Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제95호, 213~228쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this study is to interpret Whitman's poetry in terms of M. M. Bakhtin's carnival theory which subverts the static view of the world. As a liberator of women, slaves, and sex, Whitman uses a rhetoric of paradox to show his egalitarian spirit which shares common ground with Bakhtin's carnival theory. Whitman's carnivalesque world view can best be summed up as follows: First, Whitman's rhetoric, which denies the governing discourses, is carnivalesque. He attempts to transcend the contrariness of dichotomy: beginning/ending, birth/death, womb/tomb/, heaven/hell, body/soul, etc. He even reveals the topsy-turvy carnivalsque world view in which good and evil are reversed. Second, Whitman accepts the material bodily lower stratum which Bakhtin talks about. Whitman considers the human body as sacred and praises sex and bodily desire as an object of praise. He even reinterprets the meaning of the bodily wastes, including feces, as a source of life force. In conclusion, Whitman's world view can best be explained in terms of Bakhtin's carnival theory.

키워드

카니발 프랑수아 라블레 바흐찐 휘트먼 가치전도 몸 그로테스크 리얼리즘 carnival Francois Rabelais Bakhtin Whitman topsy-turvy body grotesque realism