동영상 영어권 문학: 사이버 공간에서의 영화와 문학

Teaching English Literature on the Web: Film and Literature in Cyberspace

In his 1967 monumental book, entitled The Medjum is the Message, Marshall McLuhan writes: "All media work us over completely. They are so persuasive in their personal, political. economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." McLuhan is looking ahead of the Age of New Media in which Net and Web are the two pillars for this Internet Cyberspace. Foucauldian "panopticon" provides a model of Net, while Heideggerian "question of technology" elaborates the concept of Web in terms of "aletheia" along with its double implications of poiesis/physis. From the perspective of the Net. the Internet is gazing at the user in a controling way. From the perspective of the Web, the Internet is a potential field of infinite possibilities. When one is immersed in a double perspective of the gaze of "aleitheia" which both reveals and disreveals poiesis/physis, one can undergo a voyage to the inscrutable knowing. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to bring the issue of Net versus Web in the teaching process to the foreground of our teaching forum as well as to demonstrate one actual course "English Literature Across the English Speaking World," which I taught from 2001 through 2004 on the internet. I captured the actual course materials with video clips and powerpoint materials from Dongguk Cyber University.