2007, Vol.0, No.15

The Research of the Korean Classic 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.9

pISSN : 1226-3850
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kcl1994

The Education of Classical Literature at the University and the Future Prospect Chung, Byung-Heon This study is aimed for examining the present education of classical literature at the university and presenting ways to solve the problem. In many ways of examining the situation, we are focused on the view of the justifiability that classical literature should be considered as the literature itself and establishment of various ways to examine the literature. The basic concept of this study is that the undoubted essential statement -classical literature should be considered as the literature -has been missing in our education field until these days. Consequently, there is no doubt that we couldn't meet the goal to enhance imaginative power in the classical literature education field. The essential content of literature education was mostly shifted to the contemporary literature field and there has been only outward of literature education in classical literature education. Therefore, it is necessary to recover the essence of reading literature which is the consensus among readers within the approach of focusing the main subject, which is important in daily reading. In studying classical literature, it is considered as an overemphasis of studying writers and literary works. The literature is consist of a writer, literary work, the universe and reader. The literature education until now was mostly based on the understanding of the writer and the thought in literary works. It is also found in contemporary literature area, therefore the literature education was mostly for delivering outward knowledge of the literature rather than approaching the literature itself. Therefore, it is necessary to recover the fundamental principle of the literature, that is the literary work is completed with the interest of the literary work and consensus among readers.

A New Direction and Method for Teaching Classical Novels in Korean Universities Kwon, Sun-Keung Teaching classical novels in colleges needs to be changed according to new educational environments. Rather than pursuing easy frameworks of settled instructions, the diversity of general education programs should be sought. Nowadays, many of Korean literature majors have been entering the industry of education and culture. Accordingly, the instruction in Korean departments should be transformed by not giving too much stress on the <theoriy of classical novel>. Listed are some of the possible subjects: Courses in General Subjects: <Classical Novels and Digital Narratives>, <Classical Novels and Culture Contents>, <Classical Novels and Cinema>, <Classical Novels and Image Culture>, <Classical Novels and Culture Art>, <Classical Novels and Journey of History> Courses in Major Field: <Re-readings of Classical Novels>, <Reaching out for Classical Novels>, <Classical Novels in the Age of Multimedia> Undoubtedly, there should be flexible shifts in courses between general subjects and major fields. Some real courses could be divided into three steps: 1) Reading novels thoroughly; 2) Producing some fruitful discussions based on previous readings; 3) Opening new pathways for modernistic recreation. Some of the suggested methods are: ① Expanding texts; ② Searching for ways in the relationship with movies; ③ Comparing digital proses with classical novels; ④ Comparing the genre of culture art and classical novels.

About a New Direction of Oral Literature Education in the University —Focused on the Example of ‘Myth Contents Lecture’ Shin, Dong-Hun The theme of this essay is the education of literature in the university. What should be the purpose of literature education? I think students should become specialists of literature and serve as specialists in real society. There are various ways of achieving this purpose. One way is to incorporate ‘cultural contents’ in literature education. I have given several lectures that have related cultural contents to works of literature. In this essay I introduce an example of ‘myth contents lecture' performed during the 2th semester of 2006. The theme of the lecture is associating cultural contents with Korean myths. As a result, I realized that the content planning lecture is a promising teaching methodology of literature education, especially regarding classical oral literature. Students showed a lot of interest and participated eagerly in the lecture which reflected in the quality of their work. I wish they would become specialists of Korean literature who play important roles in society. It requires further research to determine whether this methodology is effective in literature lectures to cultural contents.