이광수의 장시 「극웅행」의 상호텍스트성 연구

Abstract

Lee GwangSoo's poem, “GeukungHaeng” published on the Hakjikwang in 1917, seems to be the first modern epic both with its own characteristics of narrative and verse. In this article, I just focus on technical quality of this poem from the out-of-the-genres point of view acknowledging the narrative value of this poem which was recreated in literary history of those days. “GeukungHaeng” has polyphonic narrative style in many ways. First of all, this poem has intertextuality or mixed-mimetic intertextuality, using the various kinds of traditional oral literature parodied and interconnects some various genres, including epic-ballads which was the traditional oral literature, the myth of DanKun, the narrative of an empty dream, ‘dictions of Pansori’. The basic narrative of this poem is the myth of DanKun and the narrative of an empty dream mixed, but the setting of this poem is ‘the song of creating the world’ in epic-ballads, and the hero, ‘Geukung’, is parodied from the bear in the myth of DanKun, and the marriage of the two characters, ‘Hoaungung’ and ‘the nymph’, was the parody of that of HhanWung and The Wooyu through dream, which was borrowed from the narrative of an empty dream constructing a kind of fantastic and romantic love narrative. Furthermore, the rhythm of this poem is received from that of ‘Pansori’, which raises the orality of this poem, giving lots of totality to this poem. In these respects, I regard this poem, “GeukungHaeng” as an epic created from the out-of-the-genres point of view with the poet's experimental sense, which aimed to write a poem both with lyric and narrative elements. Therefore, I want to regard this poem as a modern epic which received the narrative style of 1910s before the narrative style of 1920s emerged.