The brain is the mind. Nothing happens in the mind that does not have its correlate and origin in neurological activity. ... Literary scholars can use information from the biological and social sciences, but they also need to take the initiative in doing empirical research on problems that are particulartly relevant to literary understanding. ... empirically oriented literary scholars can and should produce empirical knowledge that is valuable also to the social sciences. (148)

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Buell often tries to examine the postcolonial stance of the United States, the country almost always has been existing as a colonist; what would be an implication through this kind of attempts? To put oneself in a politically victimized stance is one of the most convenient positions in our postmodern days; it would be interesting to analyze the coexistence of postcolonial and colonial stance in a country, the United States as well as Korea.

"since the eighteenth century, the author has played the role of the regulator of the fictive" (159).

Michel Foucault, ‘What Is an Author?’, in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, ed. Josue´ V. Harari (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), 141–60.