독본(讀本)의 원리로서의 문학

Abstract

This article aims to seek the meaning of ‘literary readers’ through the existing ‘literary readers’ published (planned) by the private sector during the 1930s. Readers either planned or published by the private sector during the 1930s were mostly in the form of ‘literary readers’, and this phenomenon was the same for literary readers published by the Government General. This article considered a phenomenon in which literary works were utilized in the center of ‘literary readers’ as such in connection with the principle of readers. First, 『Sin Munhak Seonjip (New Literature Anthology)』 planned by Samcheolli Co. had been utilizing ‘literary works’ as literary materials in order to enlighten a national awareness from an emotional aspect, and it also had been utilizing 『Literary Readers』 by Lee Yun-jae in order to cultivate the virtue of students on the basis of new spelling principles, while utilizing 『Joseon Literary Readers』 by Lee Gwang-soo in order to boost sentimental lyricalness of popular reader. Whereas these readers didn’t enhance the intrinsic principle of literature to be the principle of a reader despite their form of literary readers, 『the lecture on the prose』 by Lee Tae-jun offered another possibility as a literary reader by proposing ‘literature’ in the extremely enhanced form which the language of an individual should reach. That is, it was confirmed that the individuality preoccupied by ‘literature’ can be a possibility of a ‘reader’, and from this, literary works are not only the literary materials of a reader, but also function even as the principle of a reader.