낭만주의·경성제국대학·이중어 글쓰기 -김윤식의 최재서 연구에 관한 몇 개의 주석

Abstract

This article aims to refine our understanding of the problems left to us by Kim Yoon-shik through a rereading of his research on Choi Jae-seo. Choi Jae-seo (1908-1964) studied British Romanticism in the English Literature Department at Gyeongseong Imperial University. In 1934 he published “Modern Intellectualist Literary Theory,” introducing the work of T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, I. A. Richards, and others. In addition, he left exceptional criticism on the work of Korean modernists Kim Ki-rim, Yi Sang, and Pak Taewon. However in 1942, working as editor of the magazine National Literature(國民文學), he followed the course of pro-Japanese literature, and after the liberation his primary achievements were as a Shakespeare scholar. Kim Yoon-shik first published “A Study of Choi Jae-seo (Choejaeseoron)” in 1966, later publishing “Personality and Character – A Study of Choi Jae-seo (Gaeseonggwa Seonggyeok - Choejaeseoron)” in 1984, and the book-length study Choi Jae-seo’s National Literature and Professor Sato Kiyoshi (Choejaeseoui Gukminmunhakgwa Sato Kiyosi Gyosu) in 2009. “A study of Choi Jae-seo” (1966) examines the achievements and limitations of the intellectualist literary theory Choi Jae-seo introduced, placing it within the history of modern Korean literary criticism. In “Personality and Character – A Study of Choi Jae-seo” (1984) Kim Yoon-shik shows that Choi Jae-seo’s literary research has its basis in the English Literature Department at Gyeongseong Imperial University and the romantic imagination. Choi Jae-seo’s National Literature and Professor Sato Kiyoshi (2009) reveals that National Literature was a bilingual creative writing space invested with the cultural capital of Gyeongseong Imperial University. Thus, Kim Yoon-shik’s research expanded from intellectualism to Gyeongseong Imperial University, and then to bilingual creative writing. This article investigates the academic atmosphere of Gyeongseong Imperial University’s English literature department through the Gyeongseong Imp. Univ. English Literature Review (Gyeongseongjedae Yeongmunhakhoebo) and examines the meaning of Choi Jae-seo’s work on intellectualism published in Japanese.