윌러 캐더의 『교수의 집』에 나타난 지역의식과 장소미학
Regional Consciousness and Place’s Aesthetics in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House
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This paper aims at analyzing a modern approach to disparate regions and inter-connected places as Cather examines and questions the formation of place attachment in a changing modern landscape. In these two places such as Tom’s mesa and St. Peter’s garden, Cather raises serious questions concerning how they participate in disparate regions and places. While Tom and St. Peter are clearly identified with and become attached to particular regional places, their attachment is complicated by their personal attitudes and genealogical backgrounds. Tom wants to be a synthesis of all of the mesa’s individual parts—the landscape, its colors, its ancient inhabitants, its architecture, its history, stories, and myths into a collective whole. His assertion of his genealogical rights to this synthesis makes him move from a position of citizen to one of owner, and from a feeling of belonging to one of possessing. By the way, St. Peter can renew his attachment to take his childhood memories and their time on garden of his old house that commingle natural cultural aspects of gathering, hospitality, and belonging. His resulting acquiescence to life in the new house suggests that a change in time be a permanent condition, returning to the inter- connections between places and communities as a larger spatial network. Ultimately, this novel suggests that an individual sense of place attachment that cannot be successfully communicated or shared with others will be unsustainable due to the competing definitions of value that face a modern industrial world.
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This paper aims at analyzing a modern approach to disparate regions and inter-connected places as Cather examines and questions the formation of place attachment in a changing modern landscape. In these two places such as Tom’s mesa and St. Peter’s garden, Cather raises serious questions concerning how they participate in disparate regions and places. While Tom and St. Peter are clearly identified with and become attached to particular regional places, their attachment is complicated by their personal attitudes and genealogical backgrounds. Tom wants to be a synthesis of all of the mesa’s individual parts—the landscape, its colors, its ancient inhabitants, its architecture, its history, stories, and myths into a collective whole. His assertion of his genealogical rights to this synthesis makes him move from a position of citizen to one of owner, and from a feeling of belonging to one of possessing. By the way, St. Peter can renew his attachment to take his childhood memories and their time on garden of his old house that commingle natural cultural aspects of gathering, hospitality, and belonging. His resulting acquiescence to life in the new house suggests that a change in time be a permanent condition, returning to the inter- connections between places and communities as a larger spatial network. Ultimately, this novel suggests that an individual sense of place attachment that cannot be successfully communicated or shared with others will be unsustainable due to the competing definitions of value that face a modern industrial world.
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