미적 근대성의 해방적 가치와 새로운 타자성의 의미 - 서정주 『질마재 신화』를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper endeavors to examine the fact that aesthetic lyricism can actually embody liberating and subversive values within the dilemma of 'aesthetic independence' within Korea's traditional lyricism through the poetry of Suh Jungjoo. Suh Jungjoo's "Jilmaje Mythology" may be a clear and definite point that reveals the liberating meaning of aesthetic independence in Korea's traditional lyrics and a new meaning of 'otherness' in Orientalism. The world of subjective integration of 'Shilla-ism' revealed in "Gwichokdo", "Suh Jungjoo's Poems", and "Shillacho" is attempting a paradoxical integration of contradiction and conflict within collective folkloric memory in "Jilmaje Mythology". This may be considered a methodological development of modern aesthetic consciousness. The liberating value of aesthetic modernity found in "Jilmaje Mythology" may be examined in three aspects. It reveals the excitement and phonetics of storytelling, grotesque aesthetic anomalies, and the true aesthetic identity of magical realism in the ex-modernistic sense. Such are the features that distinguish it from the poetic tradition of Korean literature. Let's think back to the adoration of the classics in the 1930s and hobbies of antiquity. As in the case of Jung Jiyong of the 1930s and Cho Jihoon of the 1950s, Korea's traditional lyrics are thoroughly based on Confucianist traditions. On the other hand, historically, Suh Jungjoo's traditional poetry has been deeply involved in foundational Buddhism and Taoist culture as key ceremonial bases of civilians. For such reasons, Suh Jungjoo's poetry was able to pursue diverse and anti-authoritarian cultural values unlike Confucianism, which was an dominating ideology of the upper class. The democratic collectiveness inherent in storytelling 'excitement' and phonetics, and the search for sacredness in those that are excluded and lacking in reality may be considered a methodological development attempting to restore 'otherness' in modernity. From that point of view, Sub Jungjoo's〈The Myth of Jilmaje〉shows the ex-modernistic liberation from modern institutions while a subversive development of the meaning of aesthetic modernity is shown. For this reason, Suh Jungjoo's poetry is able to move beyond the limits of exclusive reality awareness inherent in the poetry of subjective/objective integration or 'poetry of sameness' inherent in Korean traditional lyrics.