Mi Hyun Gil's scientific contributions

Publications (5)

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Tanizaki's "Kirin" was published in Shin-shi-cho, number 4, December, 1910, and he took many ideas for this work from a Chinese classic. The main theme of "Kirin" is, "a beautiful person is potent, and an ugly person is weak." Reiko becomes submissive to lady Nansi, who is a vampish woman. Reiko hesitates between "charm" and Confucius's "virtue", n...
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海老井英次教授退官記念号 〈Special Issue〉dedicated to Professor EBII Eiji The key point of discourse in this paper is the metamorphosis of the female body in Tanizaki's works. This question is explored by examining the female form of his heroines in the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods. In the Meiji period, Tanizaki creates a diabolical woman through a combinati...
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A comparison of Dong In's and Tanizaki's works reveals that they have many common features. Tanizaki devoted himself to beauty. He is the author of aestheticism, who pursued only beauty. While Tanizaki represents beauty in a unique world apart from the real world, Dong In expresses it in a fiercer manner. The worlds in Dong In's works are destined...
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The Key is composed of diaries as a device of communication for an elderly married couple. Following the protagonist's wish to restore his withering sexual appetite, his wife becomes masochistic, and then sadistic. He got transfixed by the beauty of his wife's body developed by himself and eventually dies upon it. Here, his pursue of eroticism ulti...
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In this paper I try to compare the images of women in Tanizaki's works "Shisei" and "Shunkinsho" and Dong In's "Kyogashi" and to clarify some influences of the Japanese writer on the Korean writer. In his early period, Dong In described his heroines just as women of the age really were. After he read Tanizaki's "Shunkinsho", however, his heroines b...