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‘The Readers’of Enlightenment and modern narratives(2)

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2017, 31(), pp.7~34
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2017.31..7
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2017

Kang Jin ho 1

1성신여자대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper is an investigation on the narrative in the textbook of the Enlightenment Era. Process of the deepening of the adoption of the difference between the novel and historical description is investigated focusing on Korean Lanauage Reader for Common Schools(1907). The meaning of the truth differs in the novel and the history. The author of the novel creates the event, character, emotion, and truth in the different way from history. Modern novel establishes itself as the awareness that this fictional statement has its unique value and meaning different from annals. Various kinds of fictional narratives are applied rather than character narrative in the Korean Language Reader whereas not only fictional narrative but also character narratives in reality are mainly applied in GukMinSoHakDokBon and Simsang –Sohak. Most of the empirical narrative contained in the Korean reader is a short narrative narrating a single anecdote, different from the conventional textbook. “A bright decision of the wise ruler”, “Innate virtue of the King Sejong”, “The great victory of Mun-Duk”, and “A sigh of Kim-Sok-Myung” concisely described the main anecdote of the hero. These are the illustration of the anecdotes singled out to fit to the educational purpose rather than chronicles, based on the practical need of the narrator. Furthermore, the number of fictional narratives in Korean Reader are plentiful enough to exceed 40. Animal, inanimate objects, and supernatural beings, which had been excluded in the traditional story, appear as the main character of the narrative. With the appearance of the animal such as horse and dog, water, child and mother, the standardized understanding of the narrative is sublated, whereas the conventional biographies dealt with the specific type of the man such as honorable officer and vassal, trustworthy friend, and integral woman. These narratives appear to be comparatively developed with the narrative without comment, which was the case of the former short narrative. Just like“Horse” and “Hunter and monkey”, these narratives are similar to reading one short story. In addition to that certain narrative has dialogue in the act with the narrator mentioned. As we can see from the case of“Naja1, 2”(lazy person 1, 2), here the narrative is objectified and the contents are given credit as the narrator keeps distance from the pertinent character. In addition to that, characters and events here are extremely mundane. Since the story develops based on this routine, narrator obtains the same credit as the historical description and the historicity as the annals. With the fictional narrative taking up most of the narrative, Korean Reader shows that the cognition of the fiction is enhanced and widely recognized in educational field as well. In this regard, modern reader was the cultural foundation of the formation and birth of the modern novel. Not only was the modern reader a mere educational medium but also the field exhibiting the formation and development of the modern style.

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