한국전쟁기 문학독본과 문학교육 ― 한국전쟁기 독본 연구 2

Abstract

Literary readers are known to feature the past and contemporary literary works. Just like textbooks, literary readers are one of the important media to find out the logic behind the canon formation. They revealed a distinct difference in the selection of writers and contents according to editor’s ideological tendency and literary perspective, the ideology supporting the literary circles, sociopolitical situation, publishing media capital and educational system. This study aims at exploring the characteristics of the 19 literary readers published during the Korean War period and shedding a light on the distinctive features of literary readers and their connection with literature education focusing on『Joseon Contemporary Anthology』During the Korean War period, literary readers were published not only as a supplementary reader for Korean Language at school but also as a medium to easily transmit knowledge or specific ideology to the public. Compared to textbooks, however, the patriotic and nationalistic views were less pervasive. In a way, they were like the troop information and education as they delivered specific knowledge and liberal arts to students based on the logic for the literary circles realignment. Literary readers in this sense include ‘Reference for Korean Textbook’ for middle school or ‘Supplementary Reader for Middle School Korean Textbook,’ ‘Textbook for Boys and Girls Middle Schools’ or ‘Supplementary Reader for High School Korean.’ Cases in point are『Middle School Literary Reader』,『Literary Reader』,『Middle School Literary Reader』,『Girls’ Literary Reader』,『Middle School Students’ Literary Reader』,『High School Literary Selections』,『Contemporary Literary Selections』. In general, literary canons can be seen as an outcome of interpretation and selection in the process of complicated interaction between literary internal factors and external conditions including socipolitical situation and ideologies of the literary circles. These literary readers tend to form the literary canon that reflected the ideology chosen after the establishment of the independent Korean government and the realignment of the literary circles. Therefore, it is natural that the selected writers and literary works mirrored the ideology of the orthodox faction of the Korean Literary Association which restructured and systemized the modern literary history. On the other hand,『Joseon Contemporary Poetry Anthology』which were used as college textbooks displayed some differences from literary readers for middle and high schools in terms of editing principles and selection of works. Given that the canon formation after the establishment of the independent Korean government represented ideological requests and inevitable relevance, it is fair to say that『Joseon Contemporary Poetry Anthology』was particularly political as it contains literary works of poets who defected to or stayed in North Korea. Even though its purpose was to introduce poems that were hard to find at the time to the members of the society as printed materials, it defied the dominant logic behind the canon formation at the time. In other words, it can be distinguished from modern poetry canon texts established by Seo Jeong-ju’s 『Contemporary Joseon Poetry Anthology』or Im Hak-su’s『Collection of Poems』. This can be interpreted as a product of efforts to write a complete literary history of modern poetry by excluding any political ideologies or outcomes from the literary circles realignment.