세계적 동시대성의 인식과 식민지 조선의 보편성 모색 - 최재서와 유치진의 1930년대 비평을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper has a purpose to review the idea of universality and contemporaneity that was revealed in the criticism of Choi Jae-suh and Yoo Chi-jin. Choi puts forward the value of modernity by applying the intellectualism, which used to be a break with tradition in the past, to the literary circles of the colonial Chosun. It was also an attempt to put the literature of the colonial Chosun side by side with Western literature as a contemporary, and to explore the global universality. On the other hand, It was the cinema that yoo wanted to intervene in the theater discourse of the time due to the issue of global universality and contemporaryity. He wanted to compare cinema and play because the theater environment of the colonial Chosun was largely dominated by the powerful contemporary media ; cinema. Meanwhile, in order for Choi and Yoo to explore for their universality, they had to first be guaranteed their status as a critical subject that could represent colonial Chosun. And the concept of people, which is revealed in their criticism, was a way to ensure the utilitarianity of literary work. However, the people discussed by Choi was an abstract category that was difficult to identify. On the contrary, the limitation of Yoo was that he replaced the people with audiences too easily.