해방기 박태원과 『중등문범』

Abstract

This article examines the compositional principles of the Korean Reading Book (Dokbon) Chungdeung Munboem, edited by Park Tae-won during the liberation period. It sheds light on Park’s aims for language education during that time. Chapter 2 focuses on the selection and placement of text in Chungdeung Munboem. Park Tae-won included newly selected articles while referring to existing precedents. This article shows that Park aimed to inherit the literary achievements of 1930s colonial Korea by verifying the sources of the included texts. Notably, this article highlights the inclusion of writings in the style of Hwamoon, which were included in Shinsidae. This aligns with Park’s emphasis on ‘writing like drawing’ and corresponds to his ideas that good sentences should not only belong to novelists but also to various subjects. Additionally, this reflects the rediscovery of the Korean language, which survived during the Asia-Pacific War when Korean language was oppressed. Chapter 3 presents representative examples of how Park revised and included sentences in Chungdeung Munboem. In many cases, Park revised the writings in accordance with his linguistic consciousness and educational purposes during the liberation period. Specifically, Park removed or modified words that reminded people of Japanese or colonial times and highlighted opportunities related to students and education. Furthermore, he transformed sentences from the perspective of a first-person narrator. He changed the genre of the included texts to essays so that readers could immediately apply them in their daily lives. In Chungdeung Munboem, daily life is depicted as an infinite space-time of practicality that reveals the difference between today and yesterday through the active involvement of the subject. Chungdeung Munboem suggests the possibility of various meanings of daily life through the active practice of ‘writing’ as a subject.