이선영의 시론(詩論) 연구

Abstract

Lee Seonyoung’s scholarly and critical work spanned modern fiction and modern criticism. His dissertations, criticisms and lectures were also faithfully attributed to these categories. In addition, Lee Seonyoung was a researcher of modern literature who was more dedicated to the collection and compilation of literary materials than anyone else in his time. His meticulous excavation and preservation of materials provided him with an efficient window into the entirety of modern literature, and was the most important stepping stone in the identification of modern figures, languages, and customs. As a result, he was able to pursue the two axes of demonstration and interpretation in a balanced manner, and finally established his identity as a prominent researcher of modern fiction and criticism. In addition, Lee Seonyoung made many contributions to the study of modern Korean poetry. One was a theory of poetics that dealt with the antagonisms and variations between the consciousness of the times and the consciousness of existence, and the other was a description of current affairs that advocated for the flow of the search for reality. He completed the binary composition of ‘reality/root’, ‘contemporary/present’, ‘practice/conscience’ and ‘resistance/escapism’ beyond ‘alienation/participation’ for colonial-era poets such as Han Yongwoon, Lee Sanghwa, Kim Sowol, Yoon Dongjoo. Although ‘reality’ was the keyword in current affairs technology, it emphasized the achievement of integrating literary ideals and aesthetic levels. As a result, from the early modern period to the 1970s, from Choi Namsun to Kim Jiha, a certain aesthetic order was established. Lee Seonyoung’s theory of poetry came down to evaluating the attitude of confronting reality based on the refinement of language. In reconstructing the reality-oriented language expressed by the poet, he did not lose sight of the subject’s awareness of ethnicity or class. This point made it clear that he stood in the position of successionism beyond the transplantation theory of modern literature. While emphasizing the currents of realism and ethnic literature, he was consistently favorable to poets who expressed affection for those who were pushed to the periphery. His orientation was a world that firmly united the linguistic and communal dimensions, and such research and criticism was itself a process of empirical empathy for the refinement of language along with the circumstances of an era.