‘비(非)문학’ 담론의 ‘합(合)’에 남겨지는 ‘결핍’의 자리, ‘새로운’ 문학의 ‘장(場)’- 『대한흥학보』에 나타난 ‘문학’과 ‘문학 아닌 것’의 관계성을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal through what conditions Korean modern literature originated through the relationship between non-literary and literature around 1910. By examining in detail what literature shares with non-literature and how they share it, this study attempts to reveal three-dimensional aspects of 'new' literature establishes its place. In this way, this study aims to clarify the origin of various attributes that are derived and spread in the history of modern Korean literature. In addition, it attempts to secure an entrance to reconstruct the historical context of contemporary Korean literature. the Magazine Daehanhunghakbo, published by Daehanhunghakwhoi, an integrated organization of Korean students studying in Japan, reveals the system of awareness shared by up-and-coming intellectuals at the time. They were given a sense of duty to put public values before personal desires. Their perception was stereotyped as a present perception of the coming of the national collapse, an analysis of the causes of the crisis, and a solution. They cite the division represented by Bungdang (Political Faction) as the biggest cause of the current crisis, and insist on 'unity!' as an attempt to overcome it. However, 'unity' was something I had never experienced before, and it was a clear solution only at the level of the sentence. ‘Unity’ had the final meaning at the level of the sentence to solve all the current problems, but in reality, it was only a pure sign of the disappearance of feasible meanings. Therefore, the language of 'unity' leaves an indelible lack when it is transferred from the layer of a sentence to the layer of reality. Deficiencies appear through the gap between the subject of the sentence advocating unity and the subject in the reality where unity must be implemented. And the 'new' literary spot creates its own field by responding to these gaps. The position occupied by Literature was based on affection felt by international students as they entered the reality of their home country. At this time, the literary field was to share a sense of community with ‘intelligence/volition’, and to say it aesthetically in another place after undergoing a process of refraction through ‘emotion’. In the end, ‘new’ literature was the condition of its birth that the gap between what non-literary discourse could capture and what could not be captured, between the layer of sentences and the layer of reality, and the signifier and signified.