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A Study on Garam Lee Byuong Kee’s Perspective on Korean Literature

Bak YoungHak 1 Jung, Hyun-Wook 1

1원광대학교

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ABSTRACT

Garam Lee Byuong Kee has long been known as a scholar who had made a notable contribution to the development of modern style Korean poetry. However, his perspective on Korean literature did not attract much of researchers' concern, when compared with his scholastic fame. Lee’s fame is firmly rooted on his in-depth understanding on the classical literature. He was one of the annotators who critically reviewed the classics and set up the reference of criticism. His scholastic life has undergone a long journey, He originally started from the traditional school, grounded on the sound understanding of linguistics and old poetry. However, before long, he separated from the traditional approach and moved onto the renaissance movement. At the final stage, he was standing on the front line which had dreamed of writing a poem transcendent from the time and space. As a Korean literature scholar, he found out such invaluable writings as Hanjungnok, Inhyun-Wanghu- jeon, Yeokdae-sijoseon, Euiyudang ilgi, Kunjo-naeganseon, Ou-yadam, and Karujigi- taryeong. He also translated and annotated them from a modern perspective. His approach shown in these works could be named as “Seogwongi”.

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