백석 시의 근대성 연구-병리학적 샤머니즘을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the manifestation patterns of modernity in the poetry of Baek Seok, one of the poets that formed a mainstream in the poetic circles of Korea in the 1930s, with a focus on pathological shamanism since the shamanistic works could never be neglected in the modernity of his poetry and were firmly present inside modernity as a pathological nature. The study first reviewed the research history to examine the traditional elements of the poetic world of the poet, who was committed to writing traditional poems, that would correspond with the aesthetical concept of Baudelaire and look into the resulting discussions about his poetry from the perspective of realism and modernism in his poetry. The study examined the process of the other side of folk nature converging with modernity and the interest relations of the modernity path established in his poetry to investigate modernity in his poetry. The folk nature of his poetry merged with the components of modernity argued by Kim Gi-rim in the process. The view of created intellectualism according to the exquisite combination of dialect reality and modernity reveals that modernity emerges as the other side of folk nature in that the poet used the approach to seek after newness in the poetic world under the influence of modernism. Chapter 2 covered those attributes of his poetry. Chapter 3 investigated the manifestation of modernity in his poetry, which was the specific element to be examined in the study, from the perspective of pathological shamanism. A traditional and mythical shamanistic poetic world makes a desperate and definite appearance in the research on modernity in his poetry. The present study dealt with folk nature in his poetry within a comprehensive scope as a way approach the directionality of modernity in his poetic world in a gradual fashion in an attempt to investigate the other side of folk nature, one of the tendencies, more in-depth. The study thus looked into the negotiation points between modernity and pathological shamanism in his poetry. Pathological shamanism includes the concept of healing as for modernity in his poetry. It is a means to demonstrate that modernity also took the form of healing in his poetry and a process to show that it was the expression of his nationalist sentiment as well as love for shamanistic songs, part of the traditional faith at the risk of abolition during the Japanese rule. In the end, it was a detour technique for the hope in the modernity of his poetry and the trace of healing to contemplate a way to overcome the situations of the times. It served as the base to realize the importance of shamanism, a traditional faith, and the opportunity to include pathological shamanism in his poetic literature. Unlike his contemporary poets that found a virtue in separation from traditions and tried to find urban images and western senses, Baek Seok added more depth to the meanings of modernity in that his poetry pulled up poetic words from the past and awakened the consciousness of disappearing traditional customs and that the works based on shamanism, a unique tradition, settled down as the means of healing in poetic literature. The achievement of modernity in his poetry is based on pre-modernity. In the consciousness of time and space, the works of pathological shamanism start with the heritage with a pre-modern foundation. It stemmed from the people's suffering and sense of lost perceived by the modern subjects. When a change to the consciousness of others reacts, the most modern can be obtained. The shamanistic poetic world mostly comes out of childhood memories. However, he succeeded in manifesting the most refreshing and realistic and more profound “modernity,” which was not superficial, by establishing a modern subject with the most folk and national materials and linguistic consciousness and not popularizing the unique oldness. The form of summoning the most traditional and rousing them in reality is enough to induce an extremely keen sensation. Furthermore, the poetic aspects of pathological shamanism pioneered “modernity” unique to his particular poetry, making a further step forward from aesthetic embodiment in his poetry. The ultimate point that “modernity” of his poetry sought after obtained the essential elements of modernity in that it maintained the traditional value and, at the same time, exhibited a modern aspect of the form holding it. The strategy of attaining modernity through tradition in his poetry should be evaluated as his own creativity that no other contemporary figures of his could approach.