이문구 동시에 나타난 고유어와 이야기시적 특성 연구

Abstract

This study focused on native Korean words as a poetic language and the characteristics of narrative poems in children’s poetry of Lee Mun-gu. Lee Mun-gu often used native Korean words in his text, so he is called as ‘the keeper of native Korean words’. The status of these native Korean words should be estimated as a poetic language. Because the dominant position of signifier is important in the poetic genre and native Korean words including sound symbolism such as onomatopoeia and mimetic word are useful to express the very meaning and the feelings the poet intended. In addition, strange Native Korean words can arouse the unfamiliarity of traditional things that Lee Mun-gu wanted to succeed in his literature. But that unfamiliarity can also prevent the juvenile readers from understanding his poems. Lee Mun-gu wrote some narrative poems different from the fairy tale poem in length and the narrative tendency but there was no study about this. In his narrative poems, I found the aim to deliver some kind of knowledges or critical message toward modern life. Lee Mun-gu was famous for his own writing style based on an oral cultural tradition and that colloquial style was also found through a tone in his narrative poems. Thus he supposed the implied readers as the receiver of the poetic discourse he sent.