1970년대 한국문학전집의 발간과 소설의 정전화과정 - 어문각 『신한국문학전집』을 중심으로 1970년대 한국문학전집의 발간과 소설의 정전화과정 - 어문각 『신한국문학전집』을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper shows the canon formation of Korea Literature in 1970s by analyzing the distinctive composition of The New Complete works of Korean Literature. The New complete works of Korean Literature was circulated by a big publishing company, A-Mun-Gag to mark the 60th anniversary for the emergence of New Literature. This literary anthology is differentiated from other Korean Literary anthologies in South Korean book market, regarding its planning and sizable volume. Claiming to stand for pure literature, which had been worked as an absolute value since the division of Korea into north and south, editors of anthology tried to embody the identity of South Korean literary circle. However, institutionalization of pure literature, especially led by Modern Literature (Hyundae Munhak), was incompletely strengthened by illogical process, which is worked through selection/exclusion of writers and works. Actually historical novel genre, which had been dismissed once because of its popularity in the field of Choseon literature of 1930s, was included in the planning of anthology. Such process suggests the canon formation of South Korean literary field in 1960~70s was based on two contradictory projects: exploring the origin of Pure literature and finding narrative style of nationalism. This means that the narrative plausibility of The New complete works of Korean Literature could be reached only through logical jump. Also, this implies that cracks in this collected works were sutured by ideological nationalism. In other words, Korean literature's canon formation was worked through the combination among the selective oughtness of Pure Literature, the exclusive illogic dividing popular or yellow-covered literature, and conservative history of south Korean literature in 1960s.