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金煥泰의 印象批評과 尹圭涉의 傾向批評

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2006, (57), pp.379-400
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

Kim Hwan-Tae and Yoon Kyu-Sub who were literary critics in the 1930's were from the same village(Jeonbuk) and were born in the same year(1903) and went to the same school(Jeonju High School), but their literary orientation were just the opposite. The 1930's were an age of ‘post ideology’. Japanese imperialism's suppression on professional literature removed ideology from literature and made literature pursue the artistry. This can be understood as oblivion of the spirit of the age and surrender to Japanese imperialism. Kim Hwan-Tae professed to be a supporter of this pure literature. He said that the reinvention of impression acquired from works of literature is critic's duty and advocated the impressionistic criticism. On the contrary, Yoon Kyu-Sub said that the overflow of works of literature free from ideology was owing to not writer's responsibility but the actuality of the period, and consistently insisted that writers should concretely express the abstract spirit of the age acquired from generalization of the status quo. Most leaders of the pure literature and professional literature betrayed and practiced the pro-Japanese literature in the late Japanese occupation period, but Kim Hwan-Tae and Yoon Kyu-Sub remained faithful to their honor to the last. When the pro-Japanese literature overwhelmed the Korea, Kim Hwan-Tae gave up writing and retired into the country in 1940 and died in 1944. Yoon Kyu-Sub did not yield in the period of suppression and betrayal, and advocated anti-Japanese resistant literature. He gave up writing until the emancipation of Korea after the literary journals ceased to publish in 1941. But his honorable conscience was shackles in the broken period of Korea and he has become forgotten. Now setting up their position in the literary history is our duty.

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