Hyesook Son

Effects of the addition of three commercial oligosaccharide syrups into a Korean rice cake (Karedduk) on the textural characteristics and retrogradation of the rice cake were examined during the storage for 5 days at and . Each syrups contained maltose (M75), isomaltose and panose (HL), or maltotetraose (G4) as major sugars. The increment (rates) in gumminess, hardness and chewiness during the storage were significantly reduced by replacing rice flour (up to 10%) with the oligosaccharides. The r

In her article "Canon Formation and the Reception of Blake's and Dickinson's Poetry in Korea" Hyesook Son examines a range of aspects with regard to the reception and scholarship of William Blake's and Emily Dickinson's poetry. Son demonstrates by what process these two poets have become canonized and what intellectual factors and ideologies have produced this canonization. The reception of Blake's and Dickinson's work has symptomatically displayed the characteristic Korean interpretive frames w

Hart Crane, representative American modernist, resists and re-forms social modernity in a textual realm of the epic literary tradition. However, genre studies of his text have become marginalized since New Criticism failed to appreciate the poet’s dialectic relationship with history and the value of his works as an extensive cultural text. My essay focuses on Crane’s preoccupation with genre formation with a reading of his representative American epic, The Bridge. In this essay, I elucidate thre

My essay reads poetry as a site of resuscitation based on the analysis of the relation between temporality and the lyric. I suppose that temporality is the fundamental horizon of meaning in human life and one of the most appropriate perspectives for the investigation of the therapeutic power of the lyric. The traditional view of the lyric as a genre deficient of time is unsuitable to the apparent flexibility of the genre and fails to explain how it conjures up its healing power. Drawing on the m

Dickinson's various poetic experiments are informed by her struggle with the complex relation between self and what twentieth-century philosophy calls “the Other.” But most critics misinterpret her poetic experimentation as a quest for the essential, authentic self. By drawing on a traditional definition of the lyric as a purely subjective form—marked by the self's exclusion of all others and the freedom from historical and ideological pressures—they conclude that Dickinson's lyric self signifie

My essay suggests that Hak Kyung Cha’s idea of emptiness should not be read as the effect of hegemonic erasure of minority discourses and histories; it is not a negative result of colonialism and marginalization, but a generative and transformative concept appearing widely in her works. Dictee criticizes dominant colonial and imperial interpellations, stresses the myriad moments of conflict and disjunctions, and finally empties the subject of the uneven determinations of ideological apparatuses

Ethnic autobiography diverges from traditional notions of American autobiographies by re-interpreting the singular ‘I’ in autobiographies. The speaking subject is no more a confident and firm individual, a successful representation of a prosperous American society. Rather, it shows the complexity and elaborateness of defining oneself in an ethnic context, as it requires the subject to be placed in multiple historical, cultural, economic, and ethnic discourses and circumstances. Just as ethnic au

My essay explores the possibility of poetics of emptiness in the poetry of Gary Snyder. His Buddhist concept, emptiness, demonstrates the lack of intrinsic nature in all phenomena and the absence of an independent, perduring self. He locates the extralinguistic reality, emptiness, within the contingent nexus of language itself instead of transcending or discarding it: the elision of a lyric “I” and transitive verbs, for example, is his grammatic attempt to represent the illusory nature of the se