淵民 李家源의 文體論과 한국문학의 가치

Abstract

This study set out to investigate Lee Ga-won's concept and value of literature by analyzing his papers on stylistics and his Study on Korean literature, which included texts about Korean literature in 1952～1968. The analysis results of his papers on stylistics show that he examined the classifications of writing styles diachronically both in China and Korea and proposed his 15 independent ones. He divided the writing styles into the Old and New Schools around the modern times and found that the number of items decreased in the Old School from 39 classifications in Munseon through 20 classifications in Munsim- joryong to 11 classifications in Gyeongsabaekgajapcho with the encompassing categories expanding. He also added that there were limitations around the exclusion of biographical novels and vignettes in spite of the development. He believed that Sigi's classification of writing styles had independent quality compared with the stylistics of Yong Baek-sun, Yang Gye-cho, and Chae Won-bae in the New School, providing his own independent classifications of writing styles and their explanations, in which he claimed independence for his classifications by setting the Gwachesi of Joseon as a writing style. He maintained that the classification of writing styles should reflect the changes of the times and the systems of sentences in a complex manner and that literature should contain "beautiful coloring worth a mention in history." In his Study on Korean literature, he focused on the influence of China on Korean literature and the independence of Korea in literature and shed light on the Chinese influences in some of Korea's representative works including Jeonggwajeonggok and Chunhyangjeon. He also assessed that Shin Gwang-su highlighted the independence of Korean in literature despite his works in Chinese including children's poems, Akbus, Yeomchesis and biographical novels. In short, the present study demonstrated that Lee Ga-won classified writing styles by keeping his concept of literature to encompass literature, history, and philosophy as a literature researcher in the times when Chinese classics were regarded as anti-national activities and proposed the classifications of writing styles to explain the Korean literature regardless of characters. He also did research on novels and poems according to the fragmented conditions of society and talked about the influence of China on Korean poems and novels in Chinese. He highlighted that Korean literature was different from Chinese literature and assessed the difference to be independent instead of inferior to Chinese literature, arguing that it expanded the literary diversity. Furthermore, he made a special discussion about the literature of creating a new writing style fit for the Korean people, trying to raise the value of Korean literature.