『T. S. 엘리엇 연구』의 현황과 전망

The Present and Prospect of The Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society of Korea

Hie-Sup ChoiThe first issue of The Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society of Korea was published in 1993, two years after the establishment of The T. S. Eliot Society of Korea in 1991. The society published the eighteenth volume of the journal on December 31, 2005. At first the journal was issued annually but since the year 2000, it has been published biannually. It can be said that the journal has been being developed both in quantity and in quality.The aim of this paper is to check the present of the journal and to prospect the future. As there is no precedent, the method I take is to examine how many scholars cite the journal in their papers. Amazingly enough, it turns out that very few scholars seem to read the papers published by other Korean scholars. Only 30 papers out of 132 papers published in this journal acknowledge that they cite papers issued in Korea. Among 30 papers, only 14 papers cite other scholars' papers published in this journal. One scholar cites his/her papers published in this journal and two scholars cite other scholars' papers presented in the society's conference. Only 22 authors show the evidence that they read other scholars' papers at all. Only 11 scholars from 63 authors cite other scholars' papers published in this journal. All these numbers make us wonder whether we should continue to maintain this society and to publish this journal. That's why I check the present of the society. There seems to be lots of problems in the running of the society. But they can be corrected sooner or later. We can hope for the future of the society and the journal, when the executive officers, such as president, vice presidents, secretary general, and treasurer, try to make the society and the journal better.