<선녀와 나무꾼> 전래동화의 설화수용양상과 문제점

Abstract

“The fairy and the woodcutter” is widespread remained folktale in the whole world as well as Korea. There are many folktales which was recorded it about this similar story in Korea. And There are also many publications about “The fairy and the woodcutter”. It is necessary to notice the point that “The fairy and the woodcutter” is well known folktale in Korea and surely included under the catalog of collection of fairy tales which many publishing companies competitively published. The fairy tale is the genre of literature which transmit a folktale to posterity. Consequently, it inferred how “The fairy and the woodcutter” accept the type and factor of folktale through a comparative study with its folktale in modern tradition literature. This manuscript compared each of chapters 42 and 8 in <Hankukgubimunhakdaegye> and <LimSukjae Hankuk Gujeonsulhwa> with 12 volumes in the fairy tale books are published since 2000 through author and prestige of publishing companies consideration. And then I pointed out the problems in accepting the folktale for “The fairy and the woodcutter” and made a counterproposal. First of all, I pointed out the problems the fairy tale books accept the folktale tendentiously and made a counterproposal in a humble measure through these points that many Korean fairy tale books: ① accepts only “a type about rooster's origin” with excessively tragic parting in “The fairy and the woodcutter” ② does not accepts an amusing factors that “a type about rooster's origin” of the folktale has only ③ accepts the folktale without the core episode “the story that the woodcutter overcomes many difficulties in the heavens” in “The fairy and the woodcutter”, so these fairy tales lose its narrative completion. And second, I pointed out the problems many Korean fairy tale books are contradictory to each other, because the theme and lesson with author, editor or supervisor message to reader hold different view with the logic behind narrative of this fairy tale, and made a counterproposal through the concrete examples of Korean fairy tale book.