308:(죽음), the second to the last volume in his collection, he grapples with some of the heavier questions befitting of a humanities scholar, namely the relationship between life, humanity, and death. For instance, he speaks of his childhood experience seeing the corpses of partisan fighters during the Korean War, and how this trauma informed his conception of humanity and human relation. In this book he also expands on the relationship between literature and modernity that he presents throughout his earlier works, examining topics such as philosophical attitudes towards suicide, Freud's death drive as represented in literature and mythology, and the true meaning of death as seen through psychoanalysis.
272:(장길산) as representative works that synthesize Marxist ideals with a critique of contemporary capitalist society. Towards the latter end of his career as well as after retirement, he published more prolifically on South Korean literature and devoted himself to extensive research drawing Western critical approaches to South Korean literature of the modern and contemporary era. Following his retirement in 2004 he donated 2,500 books to the Yonsei University Library. These books range from critical volumes to major literary texts that he collected over the course of his time at Yonsei, and are now a permanent part of the library's collection of donated texts.
249:, which was originally published in 1994, was published almost a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. This project was undertaken in response to the academic sphere's reaction to the fall of the last socialist state. At a time when it was common to either denounce or eulogize Marxism, Yim's discussion of class inequality, alienation, and the contradictions of capitalism demonstrate what he himself calls the “absurdity” of announcing the end of Marxism. For Yim, these problems still persist to this day, and as such
293:, he circles back to the texts he published earlier on in his career, presenting an updated understanding of the intersection between literature, theory, and modern society. In an interview at the end of the revised edition of Realism in Our Age, he laments that while there is a need to be wary of the proximity to Western Nationalism, there is also a need for South Koreans to establish a national literature following the experience of political oppression and the subsequent disconnect to ideological traditions.
229:. He completed his undergraduate degree in English Literature at Yonsei University. Inspired by an interest in classical literature, he received his MA in classics from Indiana University. In 1975, he received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the same university and returned to Yonsei to teach English Literature from 1976. His tenure at Yonsei lasted until 2004, after which he retained emeritus professorship.
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Anglophone literary studies, which was an emerging field in South Korea in the late 70s and 80s when Yim started his career. His most significant collection of works is the seven-book series he began
285:(눈의 역사 눈의 미학), Yim tackles and presents his response to questions that have long since plagued philosophers and literary scholars alike. In particular, Yim returns to his origins, turning to Greco-Roman classics such as the Iliad in search of answers to the question of humanity and history. With
304:(토지). Of Land, he focuses significantly on the theme of the individual vs. history, analyzing how the painful history of a collective of individuals unfolds against the backdrop of historical events that often shape individual histories as well as collective. In particular, in
335:. Yim cites from Adorno, maintaining that “great literature looks at humans from the perspective of salvation”, and examines how structural contradictions of class inequality relate to questions of hope and salvation, for example, in the case of Alyosha from
245:(왜 유토피아인가), were the only two books revised as part of Yim's magnum opus collection published after his retirement, and shows clearly Yim's interest in literature not simply as a cultural product, but also as a way of social engagement.
300:(귀환), he examines the theme of nostoi, or ‘return home.’ Yim demonstrates here his interest in South Korean media studies, analyzing films such as Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine (밀양) as well as Park Kyung-ri's epic novel
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237:(우리시대의 리얼리즘), one of his early books, demonstrates an interest in the interaction between literature and social reality that would come to characterize his academic works to follow.
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