여성성, 여성적인 것과 근대소설의 형성

Abstract

This thesis intends to re-read the excluded elements like the femininity, female writing in the formation of Korean modern novel in late 1910s’ and 1920s’. Specifically, how the women’s writings can be related with the origin and formation of modern novels would be what I try to examine closely. In the body, focusing on the novels of Kim Myungsoon and Lee Kwangsu, the relation between the sentimental elements and the femininity or the feminine, and between the confession as a novel mode and the emotion would be made clear with the gendered characteristics in the novel. In chapter2, ‘gendered appropriation of emotion and confession’, the eager for freedom and romantic love and its frustration, the desire for knowledge of modern woman, and their desire for literary writing were dealt in Kim Myungsoon’s novels. The figure of woman-writer who expressed her mind through the gendered emotion and confession, and analysis of herself intellectually was the result of modern women’s efforts. In chapter3, ‘the sorrow of boy / youth, and the feminine’, this thesis paid attention to the feminized elements like the sensibility or sensationalism in the youth-male novels. For example, Lee Kwangsu’s early short stories embodied the ‘feminized masculinity’ such as yearning for beauty, romantic love as an individual emotion instead of the national ideology or enlightenment. In conclusion, the femininity, the feminine which tried to return of the oppressed can be evaluated as an important cultual and mental element throughout the birth and formation of modern novel.