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The Activities and the Building process of Guinhoe

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2008, (67), pp.443-486
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

현순영 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

Previous research on Guinhoe has been focused on the nature of Guinhoe and its significance in the history of literature. In general, researchers viewed Guinhoe as an aggregate of literati with the same literary orientation and attempted to abstract their literary orientation into a concept. As a consequence, they characterized the nature of Guinhoe with concepts such as “art group,” “pure literature” or “modernism,” and based on the nature they evaluated that Guinhoe has a new or advanced meaning in the history of literature. However, questions are raised on such results of previous research if we analyze the process of the foundation of Guinhoe and its activities using more extensive materials. The questions are whether Guinhoe members’ literary orientation can be abstracted into a single concept, and even if yes, whether Guinhoe maintained the orientation consciously from the beginning to the end and whether the concept can explain peculiarities observed in Guinhoe’s activities. We can say that the nature of Guinhoe changed over time. On this assumption, this study divided the period of Guinhoe’s activities into three stages, and explained activities in the first and second stages and discussed the meanings of the activities. The first stage is from its foundation on August 15, 1933 to June 1934. During its early days after foundation, Guinhoe opened panel discussions and the members posted their columns individually. Materials on these activities show the state of the early Guinhoe members whose view of literature or literary orientation had not been homogenized yet. The second stage is from June 1934 to March 1936 when its coterie magazine “Poetry and Novels” was launched. During this period, Guinhoe revealed a unified literary orientation through group activities. That is, it published a series of columns in group and held two lecture meetings. Through these activities, it professed its opinion on the proper function of literature and inquired into literary language. Furthermore, it revealed a consistent literary orientation in admitting and expelling members. The third stage is from March 1936. During this period, Guinhoe deepened its inquiry into language. Guinhoe’s activities during this stage and the meanings of the activities will be discussed through another research.

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