현대 환상 소설 연구 방법론

Abstract

If you consider the desire for stories is the true definition of epics, what you must declare is the characteristic of fantasy that epics contain. Especially, the epic that the fantasy operated in the law of ethics is reflected in means the essence of the epic itself and the possibility of drawing a new line against the surroundings. Therefore, it is necessary that we review fantasy and ethics at the same time as two axes applying to contemporary novels. The approach viewing fantasy epics from a point of ethics has the purpose of establishing an independent narrative characteristic of Korean fantasy epics. Searching for the origins of unique fantasy in Korean literature and applying the ethics inside Korean history and society to them will provide a head start for interpreting existing fantasy epics newly. Discussing fantasy, considering the aspects of producing contemporary epics, becomes synonymous with examining the identity of ideology of Korean modern literature closely. Fantasy is operated keeping an ideology in mind all the time. Thus, considering ethics of an author, readers and his times is essential to study fantasy. Of course, to read all modern fantasy epics with the methodology of ethics is also dangerous to form another prototype. Ethics in this article is a suggestion to read fantasy epics with a new reading method. The new possibility and the old value of Korean modern epics lie in the very desire for fantasy and the taboo against the desire based on human instinct to make stories endlessly, conclusively the ethics deciding the border of the taboo. Literature is born considering ethics for others or minority group at all times. At the same time it is made up of fantasies about others. Furthermore, it can be expanded to the unborn considering social ideology and cultural training again. Ironically fantasy began to fill the gap of unrealistic phenomenon to explain reality. This epic satiety is the ethics of fantasy and the reality of fantasy.