This seminar aims to compare and analyze the artistic spirit of Lee Sang’s poetry and the film An Andalusian Dog which was co-produced by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Lee Sang was a representative Korean poet of the 1930s who frequently mentioned renowned film directors such as Jean Cocteau and René Clair in his poetry, novels, and essays, leaving behind many records related to his experiences with film.
Despite the genre differences between poetry and film, the seminar seeks to interpret the correlation between the two works based on surrealistic imagery. An Andalusian Dog is a surrealist film composed of complex images that make it difficult to analyze the narrative in detail; however, specific scenes in the film are considered closely related to Lee Sang’s poetry. In particular, by focusing on the specific scenes of An Andalusian Dog and Lee Sang’s poems “Poem No. 10 – Butterfly” and “I Wed Toy Bride,” this seminar aims to discuss the artistic spirit and aesthetic power embedded in these works.
Date & Time:
Friday, November 29, 2024 at 10:00am – 11:50am
Location:
Room 604, Asian Centre
1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC
This event is free and open to the public. No registration required. The seminar will be presented in Korean.
Speaker
Dr. Eunjoo Cho (PhD, Seoul National University, currently a visiting scholar at UBC) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Jeonbuk National University in South Korea. Her search is focused on Korean modern poetry and cultural study on the literature during the Japanese colonial period. Her major publications include Ideology in Korean Modern Poetry (2021), Diaspora Identity and Postcolonial Poetics (2015), “A Study on the Meaning of ‘Wandering’ in Kim Eok’s “A Song of Jellyfish”: Centering on the Interrelationship of Discourses on Universal Pain in the 1920s” (2022), “Death Drive and Image of Bodily Injury in Poetry of the 1960s: Focusing on Poems of Kwon Ilsong and Jo Taeil” (2020) and “Tomb’ Images and Places of Communal Songs in the 1920s’ Poetry” (2019).
