5ㆍ4시기 ‘문학장’의 재편 ― ‘문학연구회’를 중심으로

Abstract

The literary field in general is interpreted as a differentiated social field that is autonomous in the sense that it follows its own logic - the competition for cultural legitimation. and the producing and reading a literary works, following Bourdieu, been seen as embedded in continuing processes of distinction and the making of hierarchies. After all, it is able to be said that literary field is linked with contested processes of social change. This paper presents the reorganizing of the literary field in the May Fourth era, in particular from 1919 to 1921. There was Research Society of Literature in the center of reorganizing of the literary field which was founded in 1921. That was not a belletrist group, but a group comprised of persons engaged in a social movement. The most members of the society was group of students who have received an education of republic and worked mostly with magazines. They cooperated with The Commercial Press that was the largest cultural capital in those days, and requisitioned Xiaoshuoyuebao as it's main periodical from the old school. This brought about a result of replacement of the old and the new, that is, the reorganizing of the literary field.