T. S. 엘리엇 80년 연구사

Abstract

This study examines an eighty-year research history of T. S. Eliot, who has been highly acclaimed in Korean literary and academic society. In the book chapter entitled “A Fifty-Year Research on British Poetry” in 2006, I classified the 1950s and 1960s as the decades of importing and introducing English poetry; the 1970s as the decade of enlarging the scope of research; the 1980s as one of deepening research; the 1990s as a prosperous decade of various analytical methods and theories; and the period after 2000 as one of continuing the research directions of the 1990s, but centering around more issues of contention. Moreover, academic associations, conferences, and journals have been contributing to quantitatively expanding the research and bringing about a profound shift in literary and critical trends in English studies in Korea. This paper will start with a brief survey of translations, newspaper articles, papers, and books on T. S. Eliot before the first issue of the Journal of English Language and Literature was published in 1955, and then will move on to the periods from roughly the mid-1950s to the present, examining avenues of Eliot research covering translations, memoirs, essays, academic papers, books, theses, and dissertations. This study also aims to speculate on future research trends on Eliot in Korea.