2009, Vol.22, No.

A Study on History of Children’s Literature Research

WONJONGCHAN | 2009, 22 | pp.9~27 | number of Cited : 10

Korean children’s literature has developed greatly since the 1990s. As lots of children’s books have been written, necessity of literary criticism and other researches on children’s literature has been realized and now there is no lacks of literary criticism and researches on children’s literature. Because there is no well-organized secondary data of children’s literature, not to mention primary data, it is very difficult to find data of relevant existing studies, and moreover, as we approach older data, we find the boundary between criticism and research blurs. At the pioneering stage of children’s literature, the only theoretical works were theories of children’s story and children’s poem by Bang Jung-Hwan and others were mostly simple comments on children’s books. A number of books propagandizing for proletarian literature were written during the period of KAPF movement. It was the mid 1930s when discussions were made about the essential nature of children’s literature. After the emancipation from the Japanese occupation, a literary criticism which reflected on the period of Japanese occupation and asked about challenges of new times appeared. In the 1960s, there was a trend of arranging the heritage of children’s literature and many bibliographies and chronologies and literary history were written in that period, which, however, had not a few objective fallacies which were mostly corrected by Lee Jae-Chul. Since the 1990s, number of people studying children’s literature has gradually increased. Numerous commentaries and theses on children’s literature have been published in various periodicals and number of postgraduate courses for children’s literature have been increasing, and it is estimated that more theses on children’s literature were written in the 2000s than the whole theses of the same kind written before combined. It can be said that study of children’s literature gets on the right track now. What’s to be done is to supplement the work of Lee Jae-Chul in the area of basic research. It will be an undermining of excellence of his pioneering research if we repeat the same objective fallacies without improving his work. To study literary heritages, it will take academic sincerity to start the study from bibliographical research and critical reading of original texts.

Woman image presented in the Korean historical children novel(children's story) －Focused on Queen's Red Skirt, Hak-i, the Court Lady

hyewon jeong | 2009, 22 | pp.29~53 | number of Cited : 1

History is not a stiff fossil but it still has a life and it endlessly communicates with both present and future. Historical children novel(children's story) can be defined as a narrative literature for children which adds fictitious imagination based on the historical accidents. While historians focus on the realistic history, writers put the literary imagination on the realistic history. For writer's sense of value or their influential relationship in society, they can be possible to interpret history according to their own view. So we have to admit that both historians and writers can stand for different point of view. When creating historical novel for children, the author is suffered from double hardship for both reappearing history and creating fictitious history. Reconfirming history and showing it with different way has sufficient meaning and value for the difficulties. The two literary works turn the view clinging to the huge discussion to the little and valueless 'Court Lady' and show the image of woman through her. Especially, these works put the intention of author and those days into the works through fictional character rather than real person. The three images of women they constructed in the literature is different with the historical novel which focused on the historical hero so they bring out the experimental intention of authors. In the chaotic period coexisting both premodern and modern age, the equal, finding identity or future intentional women image is added both probability and the modern interpretation. If the condition that can merge to the past and the present is spread elaborately, these literature works can not be troubled. Image of the time and woman through insignificant person in the swirling history has a sufficient meaning itself. Unlike the past tendency which focused on the huge accident or discussion, today's works which give a main role to the small and minute accident and people also clearly need to the readers and can approach more friendly. The two pieces of work are decisively distinguished from the 21th century where pursues variety and I look forward to that various works of historical children novels and children's story are published.

A Study on Aspect of Recognizing Self-actualization in Lee Hyeon-ju's Fairy Tale Idiot On-dal

정진희 | 2009, 22 | pp.55~88 | number of Cited : 3

The purpose of this study is to analyze On-dal's internal world by quoting Jung's Analytic Psychology as for the fairy tale Idiot On-dal, and to grasp the internal structure that the work itself has through this. Before meeting Princess Pyeonggang, On-dal grows with holding good nature of regarding life as precious in the middle of nature. Especially, he grows while living in the heart of a mountain together with 'Bau,' which is his shadow character. This image is what shows that On-dal's inside still remains in the state of babyhood without being differentiated ego and shadow amid unconsciousness. After meeting Princess Pyeonggang, On-dal not only escapes from mockery by forming persona, but also becomes a manful and brave general in Goguryeo. However, this is not On-dal's own desire, but is persona that was formed by Princess Pyeonggang. Princess Pyeonggang functions as On-dal's anima, thereby allowing him to succeed externally, but makes 'shadow' darker by allowing On-dal's own ego to be denied in a series of process that On-dal proceeds with making external success. In addition, Princess Pyeonggang makes persona and anima consistent, and rather allows On-dal to look away from his unconscious world, thereby devastating On-dal's internal world. On-dal's devastated internal world can be confirmed in the image of outrageous 'Bau,' which was met on a battlefield. On-dal recognizes his shadow by facing Bau on the battlefield and recognizes anima, thereby leading to self-actualization. However, he directly kills Bau, thereby being what ego kills shadow, resulting in ruining himself. This is embodied as what he is also killed by being shot with arrow after the death of Bau. Also, as Pyeonggang, who is anima, also commits suicide, On-dal's collapse is emphasized once again. Consequently, Princess Pyeonggang got married to On-dal and made On-dal's external success, but allows him not to take care of the internal world, thereby leading to a way of collapse in On-dal and herself. This is what emphasizes that one individual's self-actualization is more important than an individual's external success. The tragic conclusion in Idiot On-dal stresses importance of this self-actualization. In other words, this is a tragic story in which a success story of Princess Pyeonggang and Idiot On-dal has internal structure of being devastated and disappeared On-dal's internal world, and can be confirmed to be text of emphasizing an individual's self-actualization.

A Study on Boys' Novel by Sohn, Chang Seob－Centering around 'Fighting Child' and 'Blind Puppy'

Jang Young Mi | 2009, 22 | pp.89~109 | number of Cited : 4

Discourse Structure and Romantic Imagination in Epic poems of Mo Yun Suk － Focused on Epic poems Hwang Ryong Sa Gu Cheung Tap

Song,Youngsoon | 2009, 22 | pp.113~140 | number of Cited : 3

Agonizing conscience and ethics of the community on Currency of Lee Geun-young novels

Yoo, Im-Ha | 2009, 22 | pp.141~172 | number of Cited : 3

An Aspect of Epistolary Literature in the Latter Choseon －Focusing on Shin Geong-ha

KANG HYESUN | 2009, 22 | pp.173~200 | number of Cited : 9

Kim Sung-ok's novels and Literature education

MYUNG SEOK KIM | 2009, 22 | pp.201~230 | number of Cited : 2

A Study on the lexical variation of Korean Idioms

Kwon Kyung-il | 2009, 22 | pp.231~256 | number of Cited : 7