1920년대 民謠의 再發見과 전통의 審美化 －김억의 민요시론을 중심으로－

Abstract

Re-discovery of Folk Songs in the 1920s and Beautification of Traditional Park, Seung-hee This study started from the assumption that the re-discovery of folk songs in the 1920s was to imagine one's folk anew from primitive emotion and origin. Kim, Eok's theory on folk songs mainly based on ‘Joseon Sim (mind)' or ‘Joseon Hon (spirit)' was one of the most representative theories on poems that suggested the modern meaning of folk songs concretely. In his theory, Kim, Eok put much emphasis on the establishment of modern form of poems that quoted folk songs and stressed folk songs as traditional melody and poetic form corresponding to Western lyrics. However, the embodiment of nation's pure and primitive emotional world through folk songs appeared as cultural essentialism that imagined the nation as pure and original. In terms of cultural essentialism, the interest in the re-discovery of folk songs and the origin of nation resulted in the fictional nationality and abstract recognition on nation. In Kim, Eok's writings, ‘the beautification of something related to Joseon' or ‘the beautification of one's native country' supported this perspective. In addition, Kim, Eok identified the relationship between Western modern poetry and folk songs as the realization of lyrical self. However, the lyrical self in Western modern poetry and national self in the re-discovered folk songs implied the differences and similarities as in the relationship between the special traits of national literature and universalism of modern Western literature. In this regard, the re-discovery of folk songs in the 1920s would be meaningful as modern poetry discovered within nation as an assignment in the history of literature that developed, succeeded to and reflected the outcomes of previous modern free verse.