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The Melancholy and Cultural Modernity in Lee, Tae-Jun's Literature

Yeonhee Jeong 1

1대진대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the melancholy of Lee Tae-jun's literature as the emotional form of cultural modernity. At this time, melancholy is not a temporary emotional and resolved emotion but an existential melancholy as a fundamental emotional form that is a long-lasting mood and collective emotion, with the modern background and thinking about modernity. For research purposes, this article uses superfluous man, allegories of destruction, and reflective nostalgia as key words. The depressed subjects of Lee Tae-jun's novel show the character of his other name, superfluous man type. Sensitive to moral and social issues, they do not act positively, but rather have a reflexive character. Under such a gaze, the modern snobocracy is shaped by the image of being ruin. Nostalgia, which is also a feeling of depression, appears as a reflective nostalgia that faces the terrible reality of crisis. Lee Tae-jun's literary melancholy becomes an active aesthetic device to intervene in the world by leaving traces of anger, hatred and longing.

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