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Lee Kwang-Soo Viewed by Imhwa
Chunwon Research journal
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Chunwon Research journal
2019, (16), pp.111-145
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
2019, (16), pp.111-145
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
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It is not easy to side by side with Im Hwa, who was one of the most prominent writers of left-wing literature during the colonial period, and Lee Kwang-Soo, who was a great source of nationalist literature. However, unlike Chunwon's rarely paid attention to Lim hwa, Im Hwa continued to pay great attention to Chunwon. Considering that a literary ideology or group sets its own literary identity by attacking the existing strong literary symbol, it may be natural that Im hwa paid attention to Chunwon, the founder of the literary establishment. Im hwa used to create his new literary identity by invoking Chun-won at every turn of the literary scene. In this article, I want to summarize the way the colonial-era Im hwa interpreted or inherited Lee Kwang-soo. Unlike Palbong's recognition of Chunwon as a means to refer to in relation to the popularization of literature, Im hwa recognized Chunwon only as an object to be overcome by struggle. Im hwa, who greeted KAPF dissolution from his post as chief secretary, fiercely attacks Lee Kwang-soo, who represents nationalist literature from the perspective of romanticism, language and world view, even after the KAPF's disbandment. But at the end of Japan's colonial rule, Im hwa not only begins to assess Chunwon's literary and historical status in a more earnest manner, but also introduces him as a specific object of negation that must be reviewed for his envisioned literary history. By this time, Chunwon was not subject to unconditional denial, but to negation that should be discussed in earnest, either in a positive or a negative sense. This can be judged to be related to the situation in which the survival of Korean literature itself has become important before class literature based on class-partisanship, at a time when the existence of Korean literature in general itself is at stake.
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