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A study of Romance on Modern Reason that explored of Modernity - on Yeomma(艶魔) written by Chae man sig

Kim EunHa 1

1경희대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The pleasure in reading detective fiction is beginning from that a rationally superior detective revives the society in chaos to the normal society finding a criminal through scientific inference at the city where is the field of screams and slaughter. The detective is a modern wise retainer who can pass by the forest surrounded with enemies. The detective competes against to terror that is begun by modernity. In fact, the city is full of dangerous even if it is seen attractively, so then it is full of the possibility of evil that are criminals or alley in being dark and dump and the people of the lower classes who are potential crime. The detective explores modernity based on excellent intellectual ability that is not only coolness but also precise, and fights against to terror that is begun by modernity. Detective fiction is the story that overcomes it as a rational subject finds and investigates subjects what incurring terror. This story is presented that detective fiction is a bildungsroman been the common crowd in which establishes male identity in emotion divided with fascination and terror to modernity. It is the evidence of modern science masculinized that is coolness, cruel, intellect, observation and experiment, inference and colligation, dissection and analysis. Detective fiction is comprehended a cruel journey that is to be a hero, namely a superior individual with blocking up to be pass into his spirit world which is balanced delicately due to grind logical reasoning power by terror, frailty or hot feelings. Yeomma(艶魔) written by Chae man sig presents passionate aspiration that detective fiction is to make a rational and reasonable subject based on scientific literacy, and try to over decadent individualism. However, emotion is considered as an obstacle in a prologue of planing such a rational subject. If it will be remained the rational state, it regards to have to control emotion. It suggests that female has to be excluded and exiled in a prologue of planning a rational subject. It is because a gender of emotion is female. The reason is related with that female has been prescribed as the body why female is emotion.

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