1920년대 동아일보 소재 아동 서사 문학 연구

Abstract

The objective of this study was to examine the development pattern of children’s literature in the 1920s, which is the formative period of children’s literature, using children’s narratives serialized in Dong A Ilbo. In this study, children’s narratives published in Dong A Ilbo were examined from three aspects creativeness, writer and background thought. First, in the aspect of background thought, this study explained the development patterns of the nationalist line and the socialist line. This explanation was based on the assumption that the two lines confronted each other in the history of juvenile movements and previous studies on children’s literature. In the results of analyzing the works of writers representing the two lines, it was found that the applied pattern was different from the confrontational pattern observed in juvenile movements and youth magazines. That is, Dong A Ilbo gave priority to the common denominator ‘children’ rather than emphasizing the writers’ different orientations. Second, in the aspect of writer, the narratives were divided into professional writers and non‐professional ones. Professional writers were those who published many works in Dong A Ilbo, and non‐professional writers were those whose contributions were selected. In this study, the writers of Dong A Ilbo were divided superficially into professional and non‐professional ones through the analysis of their works, but many of those classified as professional writers were professional oral narrators of fairy tales. With regard to this, the way for children to enjoy fairy tales in those days was not only reading fairy tale books but also listening to the oral narration of fairy tales, and these ways of access fairy tales influenced children’s narratives serialized in Dong A Ilbo. in the aspect of creativeness, the narratives were divided largely into creative works and non‐creative ones. Creative works included works grouped as ‘creative fairy tales’and those obtained through prize contests or readers’ contribution. Non creative ones were the translations of foreign works, Korean folktales, etc., and they were examined carefully in that they depicted sympathy as creative works did. The main part of the thesis explained the reason for children’s narratives to spotlight sympathy in connection to Lee Gwang soo. It was explained as the result of reflecting Lee Gwang soo’s theory of literature aiming to raise desirable modern subjects through the education of sentiment and sympathy.