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The Representation of Home in Lee Gyun-young's novels

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2015, (94), pp.235-255
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Park, ChangLye 1

1순천대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is concerned on the representation of home in Lee Gyun-young's novels. Home in Lee Gyun-young's novels is represented in the form of the space that a family, a tradition, and a history is overlapped. Home in Lee's novels is the origin of a family and the space of a return. And home is represented for the ground that the tradition of region and the people's vitality is located. Also home is represented for a living foundation of people who fought to guard a humanity in rapid changes of modern history. Home is represented for where people keep as a secret and go pioneered a new life in the city in silence through the period of industrialization. Home in his novels is represented by father's world or the world of paternal tradition. Father's world in Lee's novels has portrayed the broken world. Father's world is often compromised due to the collapse of the rural in the industrial era, the political ambitions of the house is represented as frustrated as long decline since the once irradiate. Home in Lee's novels is represented as the living space of the traditional culture and language in Gwangyang. And home is represented as where life is filled with people who have committed to the growth in historical upheaval in the modern history. As the nomination of Gwangyang symbolizes, Lee Gyun-young's novel world was built as a passion for light. And Lee Gyun-young exposed the light of nature as a source of life, and the light of history that reflects a community.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.