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A study on Anxiety in Pioneer: focus on hysterical narrative

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2017, (11), pp.237-265
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature

SONG SANGDUCK 1

1숭실대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Pioneer(published serially from November 11th 1917 to March 15th 1918 in Daily News), written by Kwangsoo Lee, like The Heartless(1917), his another representative work, was one of the popular works in those days. However, Pioneer was appreciated as a work which lacks consistency in its narrative composition. In a number of existing researches of the work, it has been thought to have a completely different narrative according to whether they would see Sung-jae or Sung-soon as a main character of the work. Particularly, a reader in those days even submitted to Daily News(March 17th 1918) an essay which indicates contradictions and cracks in the work. From narrative similarities between a neurotic and Sung-soon, this study finds reasons why it doesn't consist of a single narrative and is differently read according to each condition. Thereby, considering narratives of Pioneer according to characters, it perceives which aspects function as cracks of the narratives. In the process, it is noteworthy that words and actions of Sung-soon in refusing to marry Min are deeply similar to discourse of a hysteriac. The narrative of Sung-soon suggests questions which show uncertainty of enlightenment as the signifier, and the questions function as doubtful points even when the narration ends. This study is going to reveal that the meaning of the hysterical discourse of Sung-soon demonstrates anxiety, which modern subjects have.

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