웃음을 통한 파괴

• 영문명: Destruction through Laughter: Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 송광모(Song, Kwang-Mo)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제31집, 107~131쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.06.30

영문 초록

This paper examines the comic aspects of George Bernard Shaw's comedies, investigating the similarities to and the differences from the laughter theory of Henri Bergson. Shaw has a notion that the task of the writers in his time is to destroy the conventional value system and old-fashioned conduct norms widely accepted by the Victorian Englishmen. His method in his comedies to change the views of his contemporaries possessed with false idealism is to induce their laughter by ridiculing the characters who lack the flexible and realistic mindset. Laughter in Shaw's comedies has much in common with the nature of comedy asserted by Henri Bergson in his Le Rire, in the respect that the object of ridicule is the rigid characters' automatism, that is, the rigid, the mechanical, the ready-made, and the absent-mindedness. But, whereas Bergson insists that comedy accepts social life as a natural environment and ridicules the departure of the eccentric individuals from the conduct norms, Shaw ridicules the conduct norms as such. In his Arms and the Man Shaw makes a mockery of Sergius' rigid attitude and mechanical and habitual manner of speaking. Falsehood and harm of idealism, such as romantic love and heroism, is revealed through laughter aroused by Sergius' unrealistic and inflexjble attitude and habitual repetition of clocklike behavior and remarks.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 웃음을 통한 이상주의 파괴

Ⅲ. 베르그송의 웃음 이론과 쇼의 희극

Ⅳ. 『무기와 인간』의 희극적 요소

Ⅴ. 결론

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

쇼 베르그송 이상주의 경직성 웃음 『무기와 인간』 Shaw Bergson idealism rigidity laughter Arms and the Man