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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine relationship between Lee Sang’s text, ‘canonization’, and Korean and Literature textbooks. About Lee Sang’s text, his essay, 「Gwontae」, was contained in them first during the mid-1950’s and then excluded, and after the mid-1980’s, his 「Nalgae」 and 「Geoul」 were again included. This phenomenon was even deepened because the goal ‘government designated textbooks’ was to cultivate sound people and spread the consciousness of a nation as a group sharing a common destiny as they regarded it was the matrix to raise ‘holistic persons’. Also, this thesis supposes that it is closely associated with the phenomenon of mainstreaming conservative, national literature focused on preserving and expressing the consciousness of tradition as well as the sentiment of Korea. Therefore, this author examined the status of publishing the Korean literature (complete) collections and Lee Sang’s literature (complete) collections from the late 1930’s up to now and also meaningful review and research dealing with those. To make the (complete) collections, Jo Yun-hyun, Kim Dong-ri, Seo Jeong-ju, and Baek Cheol participated as editors, and they regarded Lee Sang belonged to the school of neo-psychologism or pure literature. But most of the critics including Im Hwa and Kim Gi-rim deemed that Lee Sang’s experiment on forms and destruction of language were based on his criticism about the reality of being colonized and movement of meditation. Here, this study also tries to find the possibility of Lee Sang’s text to be ‘canonized’. When Lee Sang’s text currently included in the textbooks are examined, however, it fairly seems that those have been selected to enhance ‘literary competence’ centering around student-centered teaching and learning. The characteristics of that ‘syllabus’ are readily revealed not by the text itself but by the context focused on linguistic and cultural practice related to it, that is, drastic emphasis on ‘learning activity’. However, to maintain, conserve, and strengthen the possibility of Lee Sang’s text to be canonized, it is needed to reevaluate the projection to ‘something poetic’ taking not only conflicts between Lee Sang’s text and Korean but even what is hideous and evil full of contradictions as the objects of literature.