한국 해양소설에 나타난 서사 연구 - 한승원 작품을 중심으로

Abstract

Assuming sea literature as a type of literature pursuing the universality, this study denies the relativism comparing it with land literature and the approach overemphasizing experience in the sea. The main focus of this study is on the meanings of sea described in modern novels. The purpose of this study aims to establish the concept of ‘Sea Literature’and to improve an acceptability of text through elucidating a narrative property of ‘Sea Novel’. The results of this study are as follows. 1. More sea works should be found out and studied. The sea literature is an unexplored field of research than any other literature fields in Korea. To solve this problem, we should read each work from land perspective but from sea perspective. 2. We need the deepening of the sea literature methodology. It means to overcome the prejudice that considers the sea as only a direct subject. 3. Along with the deepening of methodology, interdiciplinary studies are required. This sea science field as well as the sea literature field, could be considered. The oceanography which is a synthetic science should be discussed actively in order to enlarge the creative field of literature. Futhermore, it is worth to try to colaborate various fields such as the philosophy on the sea, the history of sea literature, the comparative sea literature, ect. 4. The space cognition appeared in Sea Novel is connected with the social situation of the contemporary period. In this context, the author examined the space cognition in Sea Novel according to the deviation and the dailiness. The deviant space cognition in Sea Novel according to the deviation and the dailiness. The deviant space cognition in Sea Novel appeared as the fear and death and the escape and relief. And the daily space cognition have been described as the workplace and the contracted society. 5. The author inquired how writers make the good use of sea space and life on the sea to write novel on the viewpoint of narrative strategy. The results are as follows; 1) The narrative strategy based on the sea space could be categorized as navigation type and sea information type. 6. Although this paper could not account for the characteristics of narrative in sea novel with perfect, the author might succeeded in giving more reasonable explanation for the concrete concept of Sea Literature, sea writers’cognition on the sea space and those narrative strategy than conventional theory.