근대지식의 수용과 문학의 위치 ―1900년대 후반 일본유학생들의 문학관을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of the present thesis is to view the aspect that literature was being changed to modern learning in a process accepting modern knowledge since the Russo-Japanese War. In the latter half of 1900s, when being fallen to a protected country of Japan, structural variation in relations and arrangement between knowledges took place as Western branch studies aiming at 'science' started to be really introduced. At the time, 'literature' began to be recognized as one of modern knowledge in relations with other studies. When literature was understood as a meaning mainly designating general studies in the nation, the subject trying linguistic practice about 'literature' as modern learning was students studying in Japan like Ung-jin Jang, Nam-seon Choi and Gwang-su Lee. Especially, they had different recognition and conception from one another according to difference of ideological background, historical experience, learned modern knowledge and reading experience, respectively. Ung-jin Jang studied at the Tokyo Teachers´ college of Japan understood literature as the general the humanities being compared to natural science as modern science. Nam-seon Choi accepted pure literature of Waseda University as an idea, but he showed distance between conceptual understanding and literal practice by utilizing literature as media of enlightenment in creation, translation and publication activities. Gwang-su Lee, who studied at the Meiji University, located literature outside an educational system which is a reproduction mechanism of modern knowledge and embodied literature as aesthetic knowledge that enables reflective thought about practical knowledge.