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Kwangsoo Lee’s Ideology and Literature, and His Contemporaries

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2016, (9), pp.13-51
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature

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1서울시립대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Kwangsoo Lee did public activity from 1906 until 1950. The nuclear proposition he consistently adhered to all through this period is ‘to modernize Korean people’s lives’. This period can be divided into the former and latter part with 1934 as a divisional point. In the former part, he was entirely focused on secular and historic areas. But in the latter part, his interest in such areas was maintained while he also paid attention to supersecular or suprehistoric areas, too. This change occurred because around 1934, he became a Buddhist. In this sense, in Kwangsoo Lee’s public life, the former period takes unilinear characteristics while the latter is foreshadowing. His novels, too, are characterized by this, so the former ones take unilinear characteristics while the latter ones are foreshadowing. In his entire life, Kwangsoo Lee was never positioned as a lonely man, but he was always with several contemporaries and conversed with them aggressively based on communion while he was going through his own way. Because of this, it can be a meaningful research task to focus on the aspects of relationship between Kwangsoo Leesoo Lee and other contemporaries and furthermore compare them mutually. His contemporaries we can examine along with Kwangsoo Lee can be divided into three groups: the first group mainly associated with ‘Kwangsoo Lee as a person insisting on modernization’, the second group mainly involved in ‘Kwangsoo Lee as a Buddhist’, and those mainly related to ‘Kwangsoo Lee as a novelist’.

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