Loren Goodman
Yonsei University
研究室紹介
Professor Loren Goodman’s research lab in English focuses on the intersection of dreams, poetry, and cultural transformation, exploring how dream imagery and visionary experience shape literary expression across historical and socio-political contexts. His work investigates dream literature as a distinct literary subgenre, with particular attention to modern and contemporary American, British, and East Asian poetry. The lab examines how dreams function as sites of psychological, social, and moral integration—bridging unconscious and conscious thought, individual and collective identity, and past and present. Central to the lab’s inquiry is the role of poetic imagination in responding to rapid social change, as seen in works by Coleridge, Langston Hughes, and Korean conception dreams.
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Selected Papers
4While Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem “Kubla Khan” stands as an important work within the literary critical context and aesthetic mythology of Romanticism, remaining relevant through its influences on modern and contemporary poets worldwide, it also occupies a special place within the field of dream studies. Coleridge’s dream poem, along with Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and Delmore Schwartz’ “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” may be considered one of the seminal w
In his 1989 study Oriental Birth Dreams, Fred Jeremy Seligson presented statistical figures on the frequencies of primary dream symbols in conception dreams (taemong) indicating the genders, personality characteristics and future careers of the children they represent. One of the most rapidly shifting and developing socio-economic landscapes in the world, South Korea has gone from one of its poorest countries in 1953 (post-Korean War) to the tenth largest economy in the world today. While the op
This paper documents, in transcript form—with some added commentary, references and reflections—a discussion, poetry reading and question-answer period, moderated by Dan Disney, which took place at the Modern British and American Poetry Society conference held at Yonsei University on October 6, 2018. It unfolds in three sections: in Part I, after introductory remarks by Disney, I discuss my background and development as a poet through apprenticeships with several poetry teachers, most notably Ke
Beginning with responses from contemporary American poets to a question (How have things changed?) about a single work, Langston Hughes’ 1935 poem “Let America Be America Again,” the study explores Hughes’ dream poems as methods of integration. Close reading reveals how such integrations extend beyond the social, as in the integration of the unconscious and conscious, along with further desegregations of waking and dreaming life, individual and collective, rich and poor, there and here, then and