한·중 모더니즘의 전통성 연구- 정지용과 벤즈린의 비교를 중심으로

Abstract

Modernism is not completely unconventional for the concept of “tradition”, T. S. Eliot, the typical representative of western modernism, elaborated it objectively in his masterpiece Tradition and the Individual Talent. Korean-Chinese intellectualists Jeong Ji yong and Bian Zhilin have the same viewpoints on it with Eliot. Tradition is a relative concept, and it has modernity. The paper focuses on the analysis of underlying tradition in the modern literature of T. S. Eliot, Jeong Ji yong and Bian Zhilin, and the exploration of traditional consciousness and modernism revealed in traditional images created by the two poets, Jeong Ji yong and Bian Zhilin. Firstly, the paper explores the process consciousness and the integral conception concealed in Jeong Ji yong’s poems, and Relative consciousness and Circular consciousness in Bian Zhilin’s. Secondly, through the analysis of Nostalgia and Orchids by Jeong, and Ichthyolite and several people by Bian, the author of the paper discovers that though traditional consciousness itself has no relevance to modernism , but traditional images can still reveal the modern sense. Both Jeong and Bian never spurn “tradition” in their early writings, instead, they view it as the foundation of their creative poems. They accepted the western literature; meanwhile, they took great efforts in finding a new way of their native modernism. The discovery in the paper provides possibility of comparative study for Korean-Chinese intellectualism