1960년대 문학비평에 나타난 서사 장르 인식연구

Abstract

This paper aims to examine empirically the perception of narrative genre in literary criticism of the 1960s and to identify its characteristics. In general, the study of criticism of this period tends to converge into the pure-participation debate, which has been triggered by 4·19. The problem is that this confrontation often exposes the limitations of separating the 'content' and 'form' of the text. The content and form in the text are not separate, but are integrated into a specific genre and shaped with a certain aesthetic norm. The recognition of the narrative genre in the criticism of Choi Il-soo, Kim Bung-goo, and Cho Dong-Il in this problem setting seems to have a considerable problem. Choi, Il-soo focused on bringing up the theory of national literature from the meta-critical point of view before 4·19. However, after 4·19, he tried to find new genre including Sprechchor. And he tried to establish mimesis aesthetics, analyzing text concretely. Kim Bung-goo presented a new concept of 'testimony literature' through a critical work to actively apply Western literary trends to the contemporary Korean literature, rather than a simple 'introduction' on the abstract level of Western literary trends. In the case of Cho Dong-Il, He fundamentally introspected the concept of genre in Korean literature that has been discussed in a rather arbitrary manner, discussing the relationship between Korean literature and world literature, as well as the integrated perception of literary history and literary criticism. It could be recognized that these results of their works had literary historical significance. Because these results were the result of intellectual works to promote 4·19, which was recognized only as an external political event, as a revolution of literary 'inside'.