홍명희와 임꺽정 - 민중적 언어 공동체와 주체적 근대의 모색

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to search for the new possibility of the modern subject's establishment, focusing on the Hong, Myung-hee's the view of the language-literature and the LimGeojeong(임꺽정) which represented Choson's tone. Hong, Myung-hee was very emphatic on the role of the language and the power of the literature which resolves the harsh realities. The literature which he emphasized was not the political demagogy which directly serve in the real ideology but the autonomous substance which was attended with the author's imagination and the historical view. His Singanhoi's action was the social strenuous exertion for the ethic independence, that the practice of popularization was the writing of the novel. LimGeojeong was the product which was achieved the coincidence between modern typical media as newspaper and novel and popular readers. That was contained popular's panoramic narratives like a proverb, various idiomatic phrase and the unofficial history. Especially, That was written with the classified rank(upper and lower class) words. Summarily, Hong, Myung-hee was modern critical intellectual who tried to overcome the modern contradictions in considering modern and that's outside through the official language and the popular. His literary perfection, LimGeojeong has the existing value in the way that he not only pursued the tradition in the concrete history and culture but represented the new possibility of the modern subject's establishment in considering popular lives and language-community.