근대 독본의 성격과 위상 (2)－ 이윤재의 『문예독본』을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to research the characters and the reality of ‘condensed growth’ presented in “Literary readers” by Lee, Yun-jae and examine its characters and status in literary history. The style, the writer, the structure and the contents of “Literary readers” were studied, and the characters of discourse and the ultimate intention contained in the selections were understood by tracking the shaping process of main concepts and schools and specially stated expressions by advertisements. “Literary readers” was a literature textbook included the advocacy of literary arts and implication of the characters as aiming for a variety of modern paper. In other words, that was a text not for a reader but for literary arts. At that time, literary arts was a concrete term for the cre- ative works such as poetry, novels by poets, novelist or writers. However, literature just indicated academic attitude to study literary arts and it contained literary history, the theory of literature, the theory of poetry, literature criticism. Therefore, the first volume of “Literary readers” consisted of contents with literary arts and literature was dealt with in the second volume. Although “Contemporary style readers” by Choi, Nam-seon made ‘national models’ in virtual space, aiming for imaginary Korean language and literature, “Literary readers” by Lee, Yun-jae created ‘national mod- els’ in real space and it was represented as ‘literary arts’ through the symbolic power of ‘the literary world’. “Contemporary style readers” reflected the ‘process’ to make a canon of Joseon, but “Literary readers” showed ‘a canon without any western article and its process’ as well.