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Kim Ki-rim's Imagination of the City, Modern, and Machine - Early Works of the 1930s and Modernism

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2020, 13(2), pp.139-176
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2020.13.2.139
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 7, 2020
  • Accepted : October 21, 2020
  • Published : October 30, 2020

Jin Hee Kim 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Kim Ki-rim’s first collection of poems, the “Custom of Sun ” was written in the early 1930s in Gyeongseong’s urbanization with new emotions, senses and language, but it has not been properly evaluated. In response, this study reconsidered the “Custom of Sun ”, focusing on the imagination of modern and machine, the center of urbanization. First of all, I read traces of Japanese surrealism acceptance in the title and imagination of the collection. And I revealed that the collection of poems attempted a new sense in the preface, the composition of the table of contents, the content and layout of the work. Next, I looked at Kim Ki-rim’s perception of reality, paying attention to the underprivileged in the colorful modern city’s everyday culture. And I was able to grasp the inner consciousness of the poet himself, who lived in a dual reality of the city's civilization and alienation. I also revealed that Kim Ki-rim is surrealistically orderly in image layout and composition by using the most representative film production and camera angle among the city's mechanical culture as a methodology for creation. As above, the “Custom of Sun” are valuable works in literary history, in which Kim Ki-rim’s modernist poetry, as well as the reality and history of the colonial city Gyeongseong in the early 1930s, were specifically expressed.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.