1950년대 ‘후반기’동인과 『신시학』의 연관성 연구

Abstract

This study analyzes the connection of the poetic literary journal 『Sinsihak』published in the late 1950s with the literary coterie Hubangi organized in the early 1950s. 『Sinsihak』(“New Poetics”) is a poetic literary journal published by Kim Gyeong-rin, Kim Cha-yeong, and Park Tae-jin, who were members of literary coterie Hu-ban-gi (“The Second Half”). They formed a research society of new poetics in 1959, and published the poetic literary journal of Sinsihak. This journal, however, has been forgotten in the history of Korean literature as it failed to have continuity for several reasons and ceased publication. In this context, this paper first examines the transformation of the modernist movement in the 1950s by investigating Sinsihak, a poetic literary journal that has been excluded from the history of poetic literature, and then analyzes the association of the journal with Hubangi largely from two points of view. First, it was found that 『Sinsihak』was published for the purpose of turning out new poets and investigating modern poetry together with them, in a wish for the journal to be the matrix of progressing modernism. This is similar to the wish of the coterie Hubangi for accepting members without restriction and leading modernism as an ecole. Next, the association of 『Sinsihak』with Hubangi was investigated in terms of the pursuit of poetic modernity and the figuration of poetic imagery based on formativeness. As a result, first, it was possible to identify homogeneity between 『Sinsihak』and Hubangi in terms of the pursuit of poetic modernity. Next, as a result of examining the figuration of poetic imagery based on formativeness, it was found that owing to the increase of interest in visual imagery starting from the modern period, the coterie Hubangi attempted transformation into poetry equipped with pictorial formativeness, breaking away from musicality in the past. Likewise, it was found that 『Sinsihak』also attempted to realize multi-dimensional formativeness through multi-layered sensation based on “dualistic convergence.” This study confirmed continuities between 『Sinsihak』published in 1959 and the coterie Hubangi that came to an end after the war. Investigation into 『Sinsihak』shows its continued activities from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. Therefore, the significance of 『Sinsihak』in the history of literature can be found in that it had a pivotal role for the full-fledged modernist poetry and poetics in the 1960s.