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How was read Kwangsoo Lee’s historical novel “WONHYODAESA(Great Master Wonhyo)”?

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2018, (12), pp.37-63
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2018.06.12.37
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : April 19, 2018
  • Accepted : June 20, 2018

Byounggill Kim 1

1숙명여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study is on Kwangsoo Lee’s historical novel “WONHYODAESA(Great Master Wonhyo)”. The prior studies have generally focused on text analysis referred to the biography of the author and topics review. Such studies show that the nature of this work is national epic and Empire epic, autobiographical epic and religious epic. Based on these premises they tried to analyze writer Kwangsoo Lee’s schizophrenia or the view of his Buddhism. In fact this work is essentially a melodrama combined with romance and action. The thesis’ purpose is to determine the nature of this work in view of a serial story in a newspaper as well as popular narrative. To that end, this study researched preferentially the general nature of newspaper serialization historical novel and it’s consumption structure during colonial period of Korea. The conclusion is that this work is ten minutes in newspaper journalism of the response to poison the fact that the public. The conclusion is that this work is a popular story faithfully responding to the planning of newspaper journalism.

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