문학용어사전의 형성과 전후(戰後) 문학 관련 개념들의 재편－식민지 시기 문학용어 정리 작업과의 (불)연속을 중심으로－

Abstract

This study was conducted to review the problems that compilers realized in the process of arranging and defining literary terms during the Japanese colonial period and attempted to resolve, based on ‘Dictionary of Important Predicates (1924)’, ‘New Writer Literature Dictionary (1934)’, and ‘Modern Literature Dictionary (1939 – 1940)’ . In addition, it was to reconstruct the compilation of the dictionaries by comparing them with two dictionaries, ‘Modern World Literature Dictionary (1954)’ and ‘World Literature Dictionary (1955)’ that were published in book form after independence. With the foregoing, this study aimed to identify how literature-related concepts have been redefined before and after independence. The dictionaries of literature terms compiled during the colonial period had one thing in common; they were serialized in magazines. All the glossaries were called ‘dictionary’, but during the colonial period, they could not be published in book form. The dictionaries of literature terms began to be published in book form, like those of today, as ‘Modern World Literature Dictionary’ was compiled by Jong-Won Gwak in 1954 and ‘World Literature Dictionary’ by Cheol Baek. This study reviewed the respective problems that compilers realized while arranging and defining literary terms during the colonial period and attempted to resolve, as well as to track how their realization and attempt influenced the dictionaries of literature published in book form after independence. ‘Modern World Literature Dictionary’ and ‘World Literature Dictionary’ were published in book form between 1954 and 1955 after independence. Out of their names, however, they reflected social and cultural changes that occurred from independence to Korean War. Ostensibly, the two dictionaries take the form of encyclopedia including all literary knowledge in the world, but internally they rearrange literary terms according to the unit of national (-language) literature. The dictionaries of literature published from 1954 to 1955 show multilayered knowledge on national literature so as to reorganize national culture of those days. The terms, divided as to the unit of national literature, are interconnected with each other by vocabularies related to literary trends. The terms, including a suffix ‘ism’, were contained in ‘Dictionary of Important Predicates’ in the 1920s and also were contained in the two dictionaries again. The vocabularies in ‘Dictionary of Important Predicates’ are mostly grounded on the dictionaries of literature published after independence, but on the contrary to this, the terms in ‘Modern Literature Dictionary’ published in the late 1930s were not contained in the dictionaries of literature published after independence. It shows that the dictionaries of literature published after independence did not squarely face the trace of Chosun literature in the late 1930s.