작문교과서와 순수문학적 글쓰기의 제도화 -1차 교육과정기(1954-1963)를 중심으로

Abstract

This study examines the institutionalizing process of the “Pure Literature” in the 1950s through review of the composition textbooks according to the 1st National curriculum. Learning to read and write, composition textbooks provided a canon of writing. Therefore this is an important research subject. The composition according to the 1st National curriculum was a major elective course and contained literary example sentence. The composition textbooks according to the 1st National curriculum emphasized the professionalism by restricting the concept of composition to literature and emphasized the enlightenment of composition. Also this textbooks were described in nationalism. In other words, “Pure Literature” opposed to proletarian literature of North Korea was the key concept in the composition textbooks. Features of this textbook emerged in the selected literary person and the quoted example sentence. The authors of composition textbooks were famous literary writers. They strenuously insisted on “Pure Literature” and selected only sample sentence of “Pure Literature”. Consequently, Non-Pure Literature was denied naturally. Therefore the composition textbooks according to the 1st National curriculum was very political. In conclusion, the composition textbooks according to the 1st National curriculum contributed to canonization of the “Pure Literature”.