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A Study on the Series 「Christmas Carol」 Written by Choe In-hun - Centering on Comparative Research with 「Christmas Carol」 Written by Charles Dickens -

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2010, (75), pp.483-508
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Bae Jiyeon 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this writing is to seek for intention and effect in parody by comparatively analyzing the series 「Christmas Carol」 written by Choe In-hun and the same-name novel written by Charles Dickens, and by examining its aspect on how Choe In-hun 're-wrote' the novel of Charles Dickens. Through this, the aim is to closely examine the significance that is possessed by the series 「Christmas Carol」 in Choe In-hun's literature. The novel of Charles Dickens and Choe In-hun's 5 pieces of the series have Christmas as historical background in common. Both novels are allowing customs to be described with having Christmas as background, and dually distributed the contemporary discourses, thereby containing critical sight on hegemonic discourses. Also, narration is being progressed centering on family. Dramatic devices, which appear in Dickens' novel, are revealed even in Choe In-hun's novel. Especially, two writers are paying attention equally to the significance of Christmas, namely, to the implication of Christmas as saying of the sole day that the historical contradiction faces temporary liberation. Nevertheless, the creative methods of two novels show different aspect. Choe In-hun conceals a writer's true meaning by inserting narration, which is not suitable for context, or by rapidly developing logic even while distributing the contemporary discourses in own novel like Charles Dickens. Polyphonic distribution and figurative expression technique in the contemporary discourses show the aspect of getting deeper in the closer to the latter part in the series 「Christmas Carol」. This fact is not unrelated to a fact that Choe In-hun's novels since 1962 when military dictatorship had been begun had pursued parody as its method. Seeing from the multi-layered aspect in the time-based, volume-based, and applied diverse descriptive devices, the series 「Christmas Carol」 can be said to be what shows most clearly the characteristic of parodic novel, which selected as the methodological pursuit in this period when political speech path had been blocked.

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