전후 신문 연재소설의 대중성과 사회적 기능 연구

Abstract

The immediate postwar period of 1954 to opening of a new era of April 19, 1960 is considered to be ‘The postwar period of anxiousness and societal chaos’ when discussing Korean contemporary history. Serial novels in a newspaper at this period were responsible for providing national education to citizens to provide victims of war with spirit and work as a catalyst to building a new country. The press during this period used a mixture of democracy, capitalism, and liberalism, all of which occurred frequently and were in frequent use in serial novels in a newspaper. Furthermore, the mixture of these terms was so much interconnected to descriptions of the public that it had a tendency to gain popularity, as if it were in fashion. The postwar period of serial novels in a newspaper were mostly on romance and society which was shaped by the cultural landscape of after the war. It is mostly based on the upper-middle ruling class’ aspect of life in a city setting, a point quite unfamiliar where the life in reality at that time was very much impoverished. Open-mindedness for mammonism, Characters’ expression of desire for social greed in building a new country, corrupted government that hushes-up the past for political cooperation and on these bases a reckless, voracious ‘quixotic’ character that is portrayed as person assisting in constructing a new country are all of which that put serial novels in a newspaper in concern, as it was some sort of a buffer zone and a mediator between the authority of the government and the public. This occurrence can be considered as the result of favoring the uppermiddle class which had authority on the press, the characteristic on the depiction of popular novels, binary structure of genuine literature and popular literature, and harsh life conditions of well-liked authors. In addition, it can also be thought as the development of individual characters that appear with sensitivity in 1960’s literature, Characters with emotional basis that have separated from the remains of ideology in serial novels in a newspaper. In a nutshell, serial novels in a newspaper partly served in the emergence of aspiration for emotions and individual values that grew during the postwar period which went beyond political and national discussions