동아시아라는 장소와 문학의 근대성

Abstract

This paper is a study on how to think about the modern literature in East Asia from a comparative literary point of view. The key issue here is how to think of the East Asian space as an internal perspective. East Asia as a simple regional compartment is nothing more than a mere space defined by 19th century Europe or 20th century American gaze. It is important to capture the aspect of modernity that has been introduced at different rates in this region on the perspective of comparative history in order to internally think of a place called East Asia composed of three main language groups. It is meaningful to compare the cultural or literary aspects of the three countries in the early modern period. This paper attempts to focus on the process of modern literature in three different nations in different intellectual placement. The concrete work is to compare the different way of death and the dismantling of traditional family relations that the literary writers of early modern times have shown.