Paper by Oh Unjoo, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English,

Published in A&HCI Journal Comitatus

Oh Unjoo, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English (Supervisor Prof. Kim Tai-Won) had her paper "Raphael On Trial: Digestive Ontology and Milton’s Absolution of God" published in the US A&HCI journal, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 51 (2020). Papers by graduate students in Sogang’s Department of English have been published in international journals before. However, it is quite unusual to have one published in a US-based A&HCI journal.

Oh Unjoo's paper was an upgraded version of her previous paper written at the fund by Sogang CORE project and presented at an international academic conference held in Birmingham, USA, in 2019. In her paper, Oh argued against the previous prevailing theories on the British poet, John Milton, who is nearly as highly acclaimed as Shakespeare, offering an original concept and views.

Her paper is significant in that it raises questions about the previous determination of Milton as a monistic materialist. The decades-old general critical rapport was fundamentally re-examined by re-illuminating the role of Digestive Ontology stipulated by the Archangel Raphael in Milton’s representative epic poem, Paradise Lost.

▶ Title of the Paper: "Raphael On Trial: Digestive Ontology and Milton’s Absolution of God"

▶ For more information and the paper abstract, go to: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766674