1920~30년대 근대시의 정전화 과정 - 시인선집을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper inquires into the canonizing process of Korean modern poems, focusing on the five selections of poets published in 1920s and 1930s. The selections took over the function of canonization when the education on the national legitimacy was impossible and Korean literary history was not set up yet. The ideological basis of all the selections can be said to be ‘cultural nationalism, and each of them contained the concept of ‘modern poems,’ its literary viewpoints about the relations between lyricism, diction and form in terms of poetry, and etc. The selection and arrangement of poets’ works were greatly influenced by the social situations, the tendency of the publishing capitals(or the editors) and the like. 〈A Selection of Joseon poets〉(1926) was published to realize the cultural education and enlightment for the masses. Not being able to collect all of the contemporary poems, it introduced the principle of selection and exclusion. The 〈Selection〉 choosed and published the works of 28 leading poets, under the standard of ‘contemporariness’ and ‘professionalism’. 〈A Selection of the best Joseon poems〉(1936) adopted ‘the idea of fostering national literature’ as its criterion. Most of the works collected in the 〈Selection〉 were Shijos, folk-song-style poems and lyric verses, and proletarian and modernistic poems were excluded. 〈An Anthology〉 in 〈A Collection of Current Joseon Literature〉(1938) and 〈A Selection of modern lyric poems〉(1939) also took up the same criterion. 〈A Selection of Modem Joseon Poets〉(1939) had its own publishing principle to introduce historical and modern viewpoint in selecting poems, and gathered only one work of each poet. Therefore, it turns out to be a very important anthology which includes various literary tendencies and young poets’ experimental mind shown in the past. Its sleeted poems became the basic list of the poetic canon inherited until now.