북한의 고려시대 문학사 기술, 그 특징과 한계

Abstract

There were the Entire history of Chosun literature(1959) and The history of Chosun literature(1977~1981) in five volumes. So it is the third official publishment of the history of literature, The history of Chosun literature(1991~2000) in fifteen volumes, written by North Korea government agency. This means that it shows the cognition of the North Korea toward the history of literature. This thesis aims to research characteristics and meanings of writing on The history of Chosun literature(1991~2000), especially the history of literature during the Korea dynasty. And also, I will compare it with the Entire history of Chosun literature(1959). The former paid attention on the evolution and change in literary history, but the latter considered on the literary history as the complex of chronological genres. And there are several characteristics between the former and the latter on the view of writing literary history. First, it positively described the geographical unification by Koryo dynasty in Korea peninsula. Second, it admired the literary works written by common people. Third, it paid attention to biographies of writers. Forth, it researched not only contents of works but also forms of works in detail. Fifth, it added several works which did not mentioned before. And finally,it shows different attitude toward the literary history in Koryo dynasty. These characteristics tell that the latter succeeded to the former and also it changed contents according to the Juche ideology. This means that the latter was written according to political purpose. By the way, the latter could be set a high value on the rich contents compared to the former. Of course, the political purpose is surely a kind of limitation writing the history of literature in the latter.