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Portrait of Diaspora in the Era of National Crisis: An experience including national decay · exile in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a change of portrait panegyrics

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2020, (49), pp.33-75
  • DOI : 10.20516/classic.2020.49.33
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose
  • Received : April 22, 2020
  • Accepted : May 17, 2020
  • Published : May 31, 2020

Kim Ki-wan 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article rereads the works of literature related to portraits of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the penetration of the times that threatened and replaced traditional images and descriptive frames. As a result, it has been confirmed that portrait-related literature of this period had been reborn as a conflicting image between tradition and modern boundaries, and the instantity of photography was thought to contribute to the introduction of modernity into portrait literature. Even though the characters and words of the genre of traditional portrait self-praise during this period were maintained, there were interfered in the self-praise of the portrait by the changing culture and customs, the changing aspect of the times like an exile experience, and the uniqueness of the ego, appearance, and spatial representation. This was not a conscious attempt or a deliberate transformation by intellectual writers who were trying to break away from the existing self-praise grammar, but it could be meaningful that the dynamic social image of this time had fueled changes and diversity in the content of self-praise.

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