백석 시와 음식의 아우라

Abstract

This thesis is purposed to analyse the meanings of food in Baekseok's poetry. Food in Baek's poetry has been understood just the materials and the objects of desire. But food in his poetry is not just a sign of desire but a being that disperses a luster around himself into the time and the space. In brief, Food in Baek's poetry is granted an ontological authority. Modern age beginning, food is a source of the nutrition discourse that reorganize 'body' with a economic principle and regulate 'body discourse' and food to just materials regarded as objects that should be managed and nursed. According to this discourse, food acts a role as a sign of power and desire because it is subsumed in the productional and rational rule. Literature in that age(1930s) responded to the modern body and nutrition discourses like these and Baek's poetry was also one of them. It is paid full attention to that foods in Baek's poetry are surrounded with 'aura'. Baekseok shows existential usages located between the Golden Age and the Modern through the 'foods' surrounded with 'aura' that inspires the antinomic sentiments. Food in Baek's poetry is associated with the shamanistic epistemology. This association is generally shown in poems in which food is called over like a friend. Calling over food by a friend can be through the shamanistic epistemology that admits both the identification of the subject and the object and the distantiation of them. In order to understand this epistemology, some intermediate zones should be first created and understood. Most things Korean included food in Baek's poetry are located in this intermediate pulpy zone between the subject and the object.