“상상의 날개”로 땅에 머물기 : 오상순 시의 음성중심주의와 ‘역천’의 상상력

Abstract

The Complete Works of Literature of Oh Sang-sun is a complete collection of Oh Sang-sun’s works which edited the language of poems into modern Korean and added as an appendix the images of the first published pages of the poems. While the primary purpose of this collection is to make Oh Sang-sun’s poetry and prose accessible to the public by increasing readability, it also intends to attract the professional readers who wish to check the original version of the text. In regard of the dual purpose, the unique identity of this collection is that it places gravity on delivering the originality of Oh Sang-sun’s texts while translating the pre-standard language of 1920s into the modern language. The method of the collection suggests the importance of reading Oh Sang-sun’s poems not only as a world of meaning but also as a world of unique writing performance, in other words, as a trace of individual écriture. This thesis examines in detail the way Oh Sang-sun revealed his sense of what the written language could and could not do in relation with verbal language through the content of poetry and in the form of a specific poetic écriture. The goal of this paper is to understand the principle of Oh Sang-sun’s poetic world constructed with thoughts on the difference between letters and sounds, writing and speaking, reading and listening. In the position of a poet who writes poems in a way of delivering real voices and talking to the people, the poet was praying that his poems could be implemented as an original voice rather than mere pieces of letters. As an aspect of that prayer, Oh Sang-sun brought the image of Prometheus, who takes the fire from the world of gods and goddess to the world of human and makes human partially god, as a metaphor of originality of voice inscribed in the letters.