문학미디어와 문학사 연구 -가능성의 문학사와 다차원의 ‘문학사 디지털 웹’-

Abstract

This article is based on ‘Literature Media’ and aims to find a way to effectively ‘construct’ the literary history, today, where the negative perception about the ‘narrative’ of literary history is widespread. Despite its basic necessity, the description of literary history based on one dimensional linear logic conforming to a unitary context reveals limitations in the depth of study of literary history. Since the examples of texts originally studied in literary studies were multidimensional, the syntactic literary history could have a virtually unlimited context, just because it was reduced in one dimension by literary history ‘narrative’. The limitations of literary history ‘narrative’ have been recognized along with the evolution of media-technology, and it has come to the age of digital media. The impossibility of literary history is a pattern in which multidimensional elements and indefinite contexts are popped up under a linear order of one dimension. Therefore, this article argues for the transition from the one-dimensional ‘narrative’ of literature history to the multi-dimensional ‘composition’ and suggests ‘digital web history of literature’ as a possible alternative in media- technology. The results of the existing literary history studies which are temperate will be the precise production of the digital web of literature history. And, through the Digital Web of Literature History, the literary history of possibility can be made fresh and abundant, and its utilization needs to be done first of all in literature education. Today, modern literary texts and literary history, which are studied in literary studies as well as classical literatures, are also now available to cultural subjects, and are the days when cultural production is getting easier and expanded with the evolution of media–technology.