몽골과 한국의 근대문학 비교연구 시론 -몽골의 ‘민담형 단편서사’와 한국의 ‘서사적 논설’을 중심으로-

Abstract

Since the modern era, the international relation between Korea and Mongolia had been discontinued for a half of the century. With the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1990, the two countries have reinforced their cooperation. However, they still need literary researches since the studies of the modern literature are too scanty. This is partly due to the presupposition that there is no comparative point with scarcity of research materials, related publication and the language barrier. However, the reason there has been almost none studies on modern Mongolian literature is that many researchers were highly influenced by their prejudice which there are no direct connections between Korean and Mongolian literature, so it would be hard to find the similarities and differences. It may seem so, because they have no direct cultural exchanges. But the two countries had same experiences; they had worries about the securities of their own nations and at the same time they needed to grow the countries into the modern society under the threat of imperial powers. In this situation, there appeared transitional literature to the modern literature; Mongolian had folktalesstyled short narratives while Korean had narrative editorials. Not to lose the sovereignty of the nation and to recover the sovereignty of the nation, Korea and Mongolia needed people enlightened for building the modern nation. The two genres, folktales-styled short narratives and narrative editorials, had their purposes on enlightening the people. The producers (or the editor) were both intellectuals of the countries and they were published on periodicals like daily papers or magazines. Both the two are precedent modern literature. They have a common start which began from a traditional style of each countries' literature. In this study, I focus on the similarities of the folktales-styled short narratives and narrative editorials by theme and form.