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School athletic meeting, modernity of amusement and discourse of bodies — a study of Kim Nam-cheon's Daeha

RYU SUYUN 1

1인하대학교

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ABSTRACT

A body is a core which goes through modern times. This thesis intends to read Daeha (Large river) with the discussion of modern bodies. Hyeong-geol, who is a main character in Daeha, expresses his modernity by his body. 'School athletic meeting' shows the physical exercise and competition as modern spectacle. Also it pulls cognitive alteration about bodies as modern symbol. We have to pay attention that it involves effects to reorganize modern amusements and to exhibit them. So this thesis analyze 'school athletic meeting' as a modern educational system, and considers its effect to embody characters of Daeha. So we can analyze Kim Nam-cheon’s Daeha as the text which shows a change from a thinking body to a exercising body.

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