『모비딕』 주인공론의 비평사적 조망과 전망:연결망 공간의 주인공A Critical Genealogy of the Protagonist in Moby-Dick:Mapping Main Characters in Networked Space
- Other Titles
- A Critical Genealogy of the Protagonist in Moby-Dick:Mapping Main Characters in Networked Space
- Authors
- 조규형
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- 한국근대영미소설학회
- Keywords
- 허만 멜빌; 『모비딕』; 주인공; 등장인물; 브뤼노 라투르; 연결망; 탈인간; Herman Melville; Moby-Dick; protagonist; main character; Bruno Latour; network; post-human
- Citation
- 근대영미소설, v.27, no.1, pp.27 - 53
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 근대영미소설
- Volume
- 27
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 27
- End Page
- 53
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/60354
- ISSN
- 1229-3644
- Abstract
- This study primarily examines the trend of discussion concerning the main characters in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and explores the logic of criticism inherent in the controversy of setting up the protagonist. While its early reviewers were initially interested in Captain Ahab, the New Critics of the first half of the 20th century emphasized the role of Ishmael. New Historicists have a much reserved appreciation for both characters, and recent notable criticisms focus on the network connecting the two characters and Moby Dick, the white whale. Accordingly, literary study is now facing the question of whether such a relational network can be appointed as a valid protagonist. Among the varied main characters in Moby-Dick, Ahab grasps the logic of natural and socio-cultural networks, and in its accord sets his own passion and mission to persist with them. Even in the intensely networked space, literary potentiality embeds human hopes and desires as well as external realities. In this sense, the literary protagonist, an essential issue of literary studies, acts as a measure of human concerns and engagements in the post-human networked space.
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