‘문화론적 연구’의 현실 인식과 전망

Abstract

This thesis intends to make a check the present status of ‘cultural studies’, and to suggest that new study and writing advance radically. Korean modern literature has been divided into three groups; political enlightenment literature, inner description and modernism literature, and popular romantic literature. The situation that each status and role of them are changed and stopped, is what we call ‘the end of modern literature’. But we should reconsider ‘literary things’ of ‘modern literature’, reflect ‘small literature-ism’ which subsides into aestheticism, and reorganize literature so as to be suited to new cultural circumstance for people and life. Today, literary study and literature should ethically understand Korean socio-cultural situation of ‘polarization’ and reflect the inequality of eduction and culture. The mighty force of Korean (popular) culture is the barricade against the polarization. Searching for a way of intervention and solidarity in the field and making tension and union between aesthetics and ethics are the duty of ‘cultural studies’. The first aspect of ‘cultural studies’ starts from the study of modernism in ‘Korean’ ‘literature’ and goes into the study of ‘cultural history’. The second aspect of it is the step that the first aspect is settled and extended, literary history is reconstructed, and the cultural and discourse practice constitute ‘cultural studies’. In other words, ‘cultural studies’ does not be limited to new ‘Korean literary history’ or ‘cultural history’ ‘studies’ and it can contact with cultural -political reality of ‘here and now’.