윤동주 시의 ‘독서과정’ 연구 ― ‘수용미학’적 비평의 구체화를 위한 시도 ―

Abstract

I expect that through the introduction of the reception theory, our modern literature will be better explained, newly interpreted, and eventually reveal another aspect of literature. And in an attempt to approach the goal, I intend, through concrete reading, to shed light on how Yoon's poetry contains elements destructing the existing horizon of expectation in regard to morphology and what kind of change it can bring about in terms of semantics. In the process of doing so, I will also demonstrate how they stimulate readers' active reading, or, awakening of readers' consciousness as well as his poems that simply give empathy to readers. Yoon's world of poetry has been forming various meanings by three main directions of the horizon of expectation such as ontological values, Christian viewpoints and the view of the world as an intellectual during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea. Yoon's poetry takes on the character of his self-examination as well as inner monologue through the form of lyrical genre, in which internal consciousness of the lyrical self is directly represented by a sense of shame. It has been perceived that his internal sense of shame more likely expresses his abstract self in the hope of restoring psychological equilibrium through the pursuit of the inner self rather than overcoming it through practical activities between severed ideal and reality. However, I was able to reveal a new aspect of Yoon's poetic world from three sides: "self-fragmentation and circulating reading process" in Chapter 1, the process of dichotomy of self and self awakening, "gaining self-clarity and a repeated reading process" in Chapter 2, the process of the conscious modernization of time and obtaining actual existence, and "reconciliating self and correcting and reading process" in Chapter 3, the process of seeking reconciliation of the self and building new meanings have been brought to light respectively. In addition, through this, I was able to discover that the consciousness world of Yoon's poems incessantly exercises its own attracting force toward the outside world symbolized by readers instead of severing the connection with the negative world and choosing internal isolation. Therefore, this paper may be called an attempt to constructively convert how to read Yoon's poems by presenting a new way of reading which destroys the existing horizons of expectation.