신화의 문학교육적 의미

Abstract

In this paper, I considered the meaning of myth from a standpoint of the literary education. To achieve the aim, first of all, I investigated the point of view about myth. The viewpoints of myth were classified into history approach, ritual approach, structural approach and psychological approach. It leaded the meanings of myth in literary education, i.e. expansion of ability through symbolic interpretation, inquiry of identity and the studying of narrative structure. First, in order to interpret myth by symbol, we must grasp inner meaning of the language which appears frequently in myth. The many things appearing with personality body, natural phenomena and the animal and plant in myth are related with the special sacredness. So as to raise that ability, it is important to guide students in reaching subjective study, compared to the studying sleeping. Second, mythical hero after mysterious experience is completely newborn, and he recognizes what is his task. This process rightly is true identity characteristic confirmation. After grasping a myth, if students could identified oneself in the mythical hero and in order to set in good order the life of oneself, specially education meaning which it gives to the students of growth period is big. This can be expanded to sexual identity and group identity. Third, from the point which myth is a narrative literature, students are able to study a narrative structure more efficiently. Through process students studied myths, it will be able to verify that myth desires the order of an ideal land, and it shows the process which that order comes to make initially. But, it is effective to make students recognize the kernel of myth by various study activity more than teaching directly.