서정주와 미학적 기획으로서의 신라정신-사소 모티프’를 중심으로

Abstract

Silla spirit, an aesthetic project by Seo, Jeong-ju in which he presented our cultural archetype i.e shamanism, pungryudo as a new literary source, made important contributions to Korean literature in some respects: First, Silla spirit was the project which was conducted with relentless effort in pursuit of native aesthetics. This project as an aesthetical response for the 'beyond modernity' wasn't a transient experiment but a persistent attempt performed from before 6.25 war and accordingly, produced some practical outcome which opened up new horizon in the literature of Seo, Jeong-ju. Secondly, It should be emphasized that Silla sprit was aesthetically achieved by tuning up the aesthetic distance from the network of mental history in the same context with his thoughts rather than the pure result of personal research. It is almost impossible for an intellectual of the third world to extract simply with his own efforts the aesthetical archetype from indigenous discourses. This paper assumes that the enormous flow of thoughts like Kim, Beom-boo's, Choi, Nam-sun's, Sin, Chae-ho's underlie. Lastly, Silla spirit made it possible to overcome the human limit that modernism literature emphasizes and showed new possibility to transcend the enclosed time and space of modernism and had serious influence on the spread of lyric poetry when we consider that Seo, Jeong-ju and Kim, Dong-ri's view of literature have functioned as aesthetical foundation of the orthodox sect of Literature Association in South Korea after Liberation.