백석의 수필 「麻浦」, 「東海」의 공간 형상화 양상

Abstract

This study set out to analyze the space figuration methods of Baekseok in his essays Mapo and The East Sea, after realizing the fact that current researches on his literature focused only on his poems and thus have failed to ensure the totality of encompassing his essays and novels, as well, and it was inspired by some previous studies reporting on the poetic nature of his essays. The study shows that the two essays were similar in their overall development styles, however, different in his attitudes and emotions toward the two spaces. In Mapo, he visually contrasted modern objects against pre-modern ones from an observer's position and created tension by placing certain distance between them. In Mapo, he figured the space in a descriptive attitude that is closer to pre-modern objects. In The East Sea, on the other hand, he enumerated things of natural association by speaking directly to objects (spaces) of depiction, as if they are his friends, pouring out his stories lying deep in his heart. Its overall mood is rendered relaxing by his colloquial style, lengthy sentences, and the use of senses like those of smell, touch, and taste. This study has significance in that it will provide the possibility for it to expand into a research on the comparison of space figuration methods in his other essays and poems.