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Study on Modern Korean Folktales Described in French-Comparing with the translations of Simcheong

Hwang In Soon 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This essay will analyze the three representative french translations of Korean literature in 1900s as the difference of translation signify the diversity of perspectives. The objects of study include Le Bois sec refleuri, Contes Coréens and Miroir, Cause de Malheur! In these books, Simcheong is the only narrative choosen in common. It is divided in two different levels of transformation in modern translation: content-formation and language-formation. From these elements, individual perspective of interpretation is completed and Simcheong demonstrates their own signification with certain adaptation as well as translation itself. Therefore, these specified perspectives represents how modern subjects cognized and present this strong and unfamiliar time, modern times.

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