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The Evaluation of 『Mujong』 in Japan and the Meaning of Literary History

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2017, (10), pp.71-106
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature

이유진 1

1사이타마여자단기대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Looking at the 100th anniversary of the birth of 『Mujong』, the survey of Korean literature researchers in Japan by what perspectives and methodologies they have studied and evaluated 『Mujong』 is also a meaningful study for the possibility of new index. This paper focuses on the pioneering researches of the three researchers: Saegusa ToshiKatsu, Setsuko Hatano, and Naomi Ono, and also examined the comparative studies of Japanese literature and the diverse research results in the field of adjoining disciplines. Saegusa organized Kwangsoo Lee's repeated motifs, and presented the tangible elements and set the 『Mujong』 as a prototype of the whole novel that can understand the entire work of Kwangsoo Lee. Hatano, through her extensive research over a long period of time, presented a new research methodology and the meaning of history of literature of 『Mujong』 by identifying the influence of various literary trends and thoughts of Japan since the Meiji in the formation of Kwangsoo Lee's early thought. Ono can be evaluated to have made a closer approach to the understanding of 『Mujong』 by analyzing Kwangsoo Lee at the time of writing and his career until writing 『Mujong』 and revealing the relationship between 『Mujong』 and all elements of Kwangsoo Lee. Based on the in-depth advanced research of Kwangsoo Lee's research, it is the worthy result of a comparison study between the Japanese literature centered on Soseki Natsume and research in the neighboring discipline. Through the result of many-sided researches by these diverse perspectives and methodology, Kwangsoo Lee's research has become more concrete and broader, and it can be said that Korean modern literature is no longer only for Korea, but for the literary history worthy of illuminating modernity in East Asia.

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