생태적 글쓰기와 신화적 상상력의 상관성 고찰 -환동해(環東海) 고래 이야기와 생태소설 『꽃피는 고래』를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study is focused on analysing the epic structure by comparison between the whale story appeared in East Sea Rim and Kim Hyung Kyung's ecological novel 'Blooming whale' i.e., this is study on co-relationship between mythical imagination and ecoological writing. The main contents of whale story of East Sea Rim is about the balance between the nature and the human. If it becomes unbalanced, it becomes to recover the balance and tends to keep well balanced. The balance symbolizes relationship between a whale deity and the human. The whale has got double meaning of abundance and fear. At this point, the important thing is that the relation of the nature and the human is construed as the Ethic between a whale deity and the human. The whale story is operated as ‘Ethica of ferae-naturae’ by the ancients because they understood the nature as not a object but a foundation of life itself. The ancients recognized that the human was never separated from the nature. They tried to maintain and preserve the social order by establishing the relation between two through the mythical imagination. Kim Hyung Kyung's novel Blooming whale uses this mythical imagination. She combines the mythical imagination with ecological writing. The mythical imagination of this novel helps our contemporaries with healing a sense of loss. The characteristic of this novel is that a individual can associate the process of mourning his loss with community-wide loss about ecological basis. Therefore, the whale story exists in East Sea Rim which is combined with ecological writing has a significant meaning toward the whole society.