『문학과지성』의 초기 행보와 민족주의 비판

Abstract

Although a famous quarterly magazine 『Literature and Intelligence』 has been regarded as a big influential ecole with another magazine 『Creation and Critics』, it has not been evaluated as a part of resistant movement and knowledge system. It functions as a new signification network owing to an obvious editing principle and direction, which theorized a circuit of reality-culture-literature differing from other Minjung-oriented ideas. Its editing principle and contents in its first 4 years were similar with 『Creation and Critics』 and even tried to accomplish the problem of "citizen literature" suggested by 『Creation and Critics』. But these two magazines became different when 『Literature and Intelligence』 criticized the fabrication of nationalism as a ruling ideology of reality while 『Creation and Critics』 continued to advance nationalistic literary theory. It also criticized the reality regulated by the myths of economic development and mass-consumption through introducing the theory of the Frankfurt School and criticizing the middle class culture. Such a critical and theoretical work was based on finding out the problems of reality in the cultural ruling ideology which were manipulating people's freedom. Its cultural liberalism was a basis of criticism of the reality of 1970s.