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Lee Moon-gu's narration-tactic as a resistance about negative-modernism-Revolve around Ulidongne-

  • 인문논총
  • 2010, 26(), pp.43-93
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

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1동신대학교

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ABSTRACT

Today it is evident that farm literature is declining in Korea. Especially the farm novel having lost its pro- ductive capacity, only Moon Gu Lee and a few other writers continue writing stories about rural villages in existence. In this situation the purpose of the study is to investigate the literary results of Moon Gu Lee, and also help people to recognize the current state of the farm novel. I'd like to examine his literary accomplishments from the socio-cultural point of view through Ulidongne which consists of 9 short-stories. They describe our rural society which has been changed by force to urbanization and industrialization since the 1970s'. First, modernization in the 70s' had been suggested as a model and progressed rapidly as a socio-cultural point of view. I'd like to explore the basic problem of modernization, the importation of western capitalism into Korea, that caused the gaps between Urban and rural communities, economic difficulty, cultural alienation, and the changing process of peasant consciousness. And also I'd like to observe that the process of change is strong and heartbreaking as these people wish to maintain their identity from the social historic point of view. That purposes to confirm the author's literary opinions which center on the rural community as a literary home to contribute to history. At the same time that purpose to know the effect of the rural community because rural society still possesses ethic and traditional beauty. As far as form, he wrote this novel in series. I'd like you to grasp his intention and to understand that his writing style is very unique, because he frequently used local traditional language. Indeed he is a very unique stylist and also a novelist who helps to preserve the Korean language. In Ulidongne is consisting of 9 novels which have continuity and contain similar episodes, he uses similar situations and subjects repeatedly in his writing. He knows it is impossible to describe Korean farm life well using western plots. Likewise in his novels he employs a unique writing style to describe the transformation of rural society after industrial modernization. To illuminate his distinguished writing style, there are four points I would like to mention. The first is that the literary spirit of his novels enlists the use of local traditional language. The second is that he enjoys writing in a versatile style that is appropriate to express ‘dialog from Pansori’ containing sarcasm, criticism and resistance. The third is ‘the element of humor’. We can feel the tough and abundant humor of people who face trials and try to keep their pride while struggling not to fall. The fourth is that he enjoys musical verse with paired phrase and repetition.

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