이청준의 「이어도」에 나타난 헤테로토피아의 양상 연구

Abstract

This study made its start by raising a question about the major direction of previous discussions about the island metaphor in Ieodo by Lee Cheongjun being fixed to its utopian nature. The study also made an attempt at precisely re-reading a series of texts from a different perspective from previous discussions based on the fact that the significance of spatiality called an island can hardly be seen as a utopia in his novel. Even though 'Ieodo' is a conceptual space that is not real in the novel, there are points of disparity between the space and our old standpoints of utopia with very complex hierarchical differences inherent in them. They do not simply have spatial significance granted to them, and their episememe is in endless exclusive possession by other objects, which grants significance beyond that of material placeness at a narrative level. In the variation process of narrative significance paradigms, the metaphor of island shows the segmentation and intensification of certain direction from the central significance paradigm, in which process a utopian concept shows a semantically entangled relation rather than a separate image distinguished from the metaphor of island. The present study thus made an approach with a concept of heterotopian space in contrast to utopian space, attempted to provide explanations about the parts omitted or not fully explained in previous discussions, and explored new interpretative possibilities for the significance of island space in Lee's novel.