해방기에 출간된 <小波童話讀本>에 관한 서지적 연구

Abstract

This study analyzed the state of the publishment at the time, the currently handed-down versions, form and contents of the Sopa’s Fairy Tale Book series published during the Liberation period of the country. By doing so, the study conducted an in-depth examination on its publishment, structure, form and contents. Joseon Children Culture Association (Ahyeop), which tried hard to establish children’s culture, selected 36 pieces from the work of children’s literature of Bang Jeong-Hwan who devoted his whole life for children, and published totally five volumes of Sopa’s Fairy Tale Book. Though the number of its currently handed-down versions is not many, the study, as a result of analysis on them, found Sopa’s Fairy Tale Book had the same formation of ‘front cover-table of contents, title page-main text-back cover’. The main text was inserted with illustrations from each different artists (Kim Eu-Hwan, Jeong Hyun-Ung, Yoon Hee-Sun, Kim Gyu-Taek, Han Hong-Taek) for Bang Jeong-Hwan’s stories, giving it a credit as a pioneering publication plan. As a result of the analysis of its contents, 36 children’s stories were divided into adaptations, passed-down traditional stories and originals by and large based on literary form, It was composed of 18 adapted stories, 14 traditional ones, 4 originals, showing the high proportion of adapted and traditional stories. It was also confirmed that fairy tales of Sopa’s Fairy Tale Book were those already published at his only and single book of A Gift of Love (1922) and at Magazine Children (1923-29) in which he had much activity. It was identified as eight and 28 pieces respectively.