해방 후 순수 문단과 세계문학의 개념 - 김동리와 조연현을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to observe how the concept of 'World Literature' has been constructed in the process of 'the Theory of Pure Literature' and what kind of role it has been having on the establishment of the concept of pure literature. I'd rather focus on how 'the Theory of Pure Literature' took advantage of 'World Literature' for the purpose of establishing its own logic than argue what kind of effects of 'World Literature' on 'Pure Literature.' The advocates of pure literature have been made definition of world literature as not the literature which owns world simultaneity but the works which own literary value transcending time and space. This kind of concept of world literature has been usefully taken advantage of as defining either oriental tradition or the literature which is far from reality. The 'canon' which is past work as well as currently meaningful has become literary models and it affects on the direction of our literature. The most conspicuous characteristic of Kim, Donglee's theory of world literature is that it negates world simultaneity. This attitude can be said as the result of countering consciousness against left literature. As a matter of fact, the literature which has owned world simultaneity in our literary history was socialistic literature. The world literature of national literature is far from world simultaneity. It has the meaning of "world canon." It tells not contemporary literary spirit but fixed literary spirit. Cho, Yeonhyun has established his own literary perspective encountering Dostoyevsky and found concrete examples of 'the end of life. 'The attitude of filling out our literary contents with not our literary works but foreign literary works has been recuperated as well. Cho, Yeonhyun appreciated Kim, Donglee's works as the works that created ontological human types. Furtheremore, he defined Kim's works as 'the will toward emptiness. 'These kinds of perspectives have been applied to foreign writers like Dostoyevsky without discrimination.