근대계몽기 과부(寡婦)에 대한 시적 표상과 매체적 인식

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the lives of widows who lived in the modern enlightenment period through literature style, poetry and medium of newspaper, newspaper articles. That is, it was tried to comprehend the lives of widows during this period more generally and objectively by approaching two aspects of literary form and medium recognition. In the aspect of poetic symbol, the works in the series of enlightenment lyrics and the works in the series of lyrics depicting women’s lives were analyzed. In the former works, they sang fundamental sorrows as the isolated existences and loneliness of widows who lost their identity as well as the loss of their husbands in the pre-modern family order. The historical time zone already stepped over the threshold of the modern era, but their lives stayed in the pre-modern era and kept daily lives which internalized the chastity ideology in the Confucian regulations and conventions. Otherwise, in the works in the series of enlightenment lyrics, it was made an issue of objective reality around widows as the social existences in relation to the widow’s own existence and the reality of society at that time ceaselessly. Furthermore, it was exposed the reality of society which threatened the lives of widows and showed the aspect to participate in the public ideal to realize the modern normal family and to materialize the modern nation-state as the main agents. In other words, they were a kind of modern planners as well as existences to open time of the future. In this respect, the forms of widow in the modern enlightenment period would appear the multiple and intersectional lives of synchronism of asynchronism which lives of several different time zones were mixed up. The lives of widows in the pre-modern era were overshadowed by the private area all the time, but it could be revealed to the public vividly due to the form of modern public sphere of medium of news paper. The difficult realities of widows who endured extortion of property or physical violence in the outside of the safety zone that was the legal protection of the independent country were observed by examining the articles related to widows. And it was confirmed the appearance as the main agents who participated in the public area and possessed the public interests in difficult situations such as economic exploitation and infringement upon personal rights. If it would be considered that the news paper articles which reported the news of widows who had to live in the non- simultaneous time zone honestly to related to the function of modern public sphere, it is regarded that it had positive significance in the aspect of discursive effect. For the public who participate in the public sphere could understand the reality of lives of widows related to their own situations on the basis of ‘sensus communis’ as the members of the community and recognize as the equal main agents of the public sphere. In the long view, it is considered those functions of the public sphere would contribute to reject the divided and redundant lives of widows and widow discourse gradually.