외부로부터의 격발들, 고유한 연구의 지정학에 대하여 ―한국현대문학연구와 이론, 예비적 고찰 혹은 그래프·지도·수형도

Abstract

This study examined how 'foreign theory' was grafted onto an intrinsic field of “Korean modern literature studies” and how this has affected the ways of setting and implementing agendas in this field. This was done by looking at cases introduced in Sanghur Hakbo-The Journal of Korean Modern Literature and Journal of Korean National Literature(Minjok Munhaksa Yongu). In this study, 395 articles contained in Sanghur Hakbo - The Journal of Korean Modern Literature (from the first issue in 1993 through to the last issue of 2011) and 450 modern litearture-related articles in Journal of Korean National Literature (from the first issue in 1991 through to the last issue of 2011). First, all the main contents, the keywords and the bibliography were entered. Then, the journals’ data, such as their publication dates, numbers of papers in each issue, numbers of foreign reference books quoted from, names of these books’ authors and these books’ titles, the authors’ countries of origin and activity, groups of keywords and related keywords, and authors to be studied, were organized into a statistical format. These data were expressed as graphs and maps, and the major flows and the agenda change progresses were examined and interpreted. Then, how has the “theory”, which is used as an agenda in a specific place but also has global universality in itself, had connection with an intrinsic practice called the “Korean Modern literature Studies”? This study examined how the agenda which formed the basis of the Korean modern literature research over the last 20 years, such as modernity, colonization, media, translation, East Asia, censorship, Minjok, women, modernism, aesthetics and ego, spread and disappeared through the theory. The study then investigated which theories were used by the Korean society’s intrinsic demands and requirements. Then, by examining the statistical data, graphs and maps on these matters, this study objectively organized the course of research history of the last 20 years and predicted the problems that will need to be solved in future.