임화의 메타비평 연구－ 비평적 자의식에 대한 고찰을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to study Meta-Criticism of Imwha(林和), a representative critic of Korean Colonial Period. Imwha was a critic who had more critical self-consciousness than anyone else. He wrote many critic essays about the essence and characteristics of criticism. His thoughts on criticism are shown impressively in those articles and writings. Apparently, Imwha held on to Marxist Criticism until the mid 1930s. But, since the late 1930s, he developed his critical view on the criticism which was subordinated to literature works and emphasized the historical and political features of criticism. Since 1940, Imwha started to show his strong interest in the independence of criticism and autonomy of arts. This attitude can be considered as an indirect resistance against the Fascism of Japanese Imperialism which was being spreaded openly. He developed actively his enlightenment criticism again since the liberation of Korea. But his critical thoughts couldn’t be developed more because of his political death. This is one of the worst misfortune in the history of Korean Modern criticism.