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A Study on History of Children’s Literature Research

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2009, 22(), pp.9~27
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2009.22..9
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature

WONJONGCHAN 1

1인하대학교

ABSTRACT

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.

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