한국 창작동화에 나타난 희극성

Abstract

A comedy is a social genre, correcting and purifying flaws of humans with laugh and wit. Meanwhile, understanding and copying comicality in a comedy could improve creativity or emotional intelligence of a child and play an important role in literature education. Research on comicality manifested in juvenile literature, therefore, could help children mature socially, improve their creativity and reading skills, laying a significant foundation for creating various juvenile narrative literature. The following comicality are shown in Korean juvenile creative stories : linguistic comicality such as a dialect, a metaphor, exaggerated expressions or repetition, paronomasia; structural comicality from an introduction arousing expectations and an absurd conclusion leading to a laugh; and comicality of a juvenile character who is curious and innocent or who behaves in different and odd ways. Such comicality increases children’s interests in language and help them understand narration. Moreover, ‘immaturity’, which may be considered a farcical defect, produces healthful laughs along with the juvenile mind and innocence that adults have lost. Korean juvenile creative stories are often featured by lyrical comicality with fun situations that embrace flaws of humans. Also, conflicts and confrontation, viewed as serous in the world of adults, are treated as trivial and light from the viewpoint of children, helping them to embrace such serious problems. It’s because they are ‘yet – to – come’ problems to children. That is, healthful laughs and solution based on the innocent juvenile mind is a virtue of comical text lacking in stories presenting problems in a realistic way.