근대 소설 형성기 신문연재소설 삽화의 구성 원리 연구 - 『매일신보』 에 연재된 이해조의 신소설 삽화를 중심으로

Abstract

An illustration looks like a mere motionless picture embedded in the novel but it represents the event or the action by visual images. Naturally those pictures have such a 'narrativity' that we can analyze them by applying the narrative theories. And such a research shows us the special role of the illustration in the narrative communicative situation. The illustration in the newspaper novel has a twofold meaning in the narrative communicative situation. : The illustrator is the first reader (receiver)of the story (message) that is written by a writer and he is the independent writer (sender) who gives his feedback. And that is why we should study the illustration in literature of novel. This paper studies the illustration that depicts scenes of a serial of stories in a newspaper. Particularly the illustration in the early 1910s, the formative years of the modern literature in Korea, is the focus of this study because it could have influenced the establishing of the Korean modern novels. The illustration in the early 1990s has special functions in the narrative communication. First, it guides readers to the whole story by re-presenting important plot-points. Its visual images can help the readers to enjoy the spectacle scenes and understand the progress of the story at the same time. Besides, while reading images and written text altogether, the readers who are not accustomed to reading the modern written novels can learn how to read them. In addition, the illustration creates the reality of the story by complementing the written text. This is because concrete and detailed descriptions of a story do not only organize the virtual reality, but also give the story a high probability.