『모비딕』의 서술자 이슈마엘의 일상적 서사를 통한 공함의 자각

• 영문명: Awakening toward Emptiness through Ishmael’s Narrative on Everyday Whaling in Moby-Dick
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 손아영(A Young Son)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제139호, 47~62쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.12.30

영문 초록

This paper discuses the possibility that Ishmael’s narrative on everyday whaling leads the reader to approach the possibility of awakening toward Buddhist emptiness. In this attempt, this paper tries to prove that this awakening does not come from the core of the story, which is Ahab’s intense searching for the white whale, but from Ishmael’s narrative on everyday whaling. His description on mundane labors on whaling not only suddenly expands to philosophical ideas but also finishes without forming solid messages. Therefore, the reader fails to fully understand the text and this failure helps the reader to glimpse the openness of emptiness. In Buddhism, emptiness is the ultimate and universal quality of the world. Emptiness, however, can not be penetrated by any forms of cognition. Therefore, at the moment the reader fails to understand the text and form clear messages, he/she immediately has the possibility to open himself/herself to the emptiness.

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불교사상 화엄 공함 포스트모더니즘 허먼 멜빌 『모비딕』 이슈마엘의 서사 Buddhism Avatamsaka Stutra Emptiness Postmodernism Herman Melville Moby-Dick Ishmael’s narrative