2015, Vol.72, No.1

Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.89

pISSN : 1598-3021 / eISSN : 2671-7921
https://journal.kci.go.kr/snu-ioh

This article explores the Nietzscheanism of the 1930’s Nine Members’Society (Kuinhoe) poets. I examine three poems, such as Kim Kirim’s“New Year’s Eve” (Cheya), Chong Ji Yong’s “Sadness from StreamlinedShape” (Yusonaesang) and Yi Sang’s “The Story of a Street out of aStreet” (Kaoegajon), all published in the magazine Poetry and Novel(1936). These three works thematize the poetic motif, ‘a street.’ This paperredirects the research perspective on explaining ‘a street’ from WalterBenjamin’s concept flaneur to Nietzsche’s concept of ‘the Übermensch’srapid running.’ ‘The child in a dream’ from Chong Jiyong’s Poem “Fanwith Ying and Yang emblems” (Taegukson) and ‘Mr. Cha-Pal’ from YiSang’s poem “The Start of Mr. Cha-Pal” (Cha-pal-siui chulbal) are mainNietschean characters who represent the very concept of ‘theÜbermensch’s rapid running.’Park Taewon’s short story “The Master of Café Bangranjang” (Bangranjangchuin) also listed in the same journal Poetry and Novel (1936) gives me a crucial clue to interpret these three poems all together. I gain this cluefrom my reading of the chapter, “The Way of the Creating One” fromThus Spake Zarathustra. ‘A star’ in the chapter indicates the Übermenschof the first movement, “Wheels Running by Nature.” In other words, theNine Members Society’s exploration of philosophical thoughts is deeplyrelated to the Neitzschean Übermensch thesis. This paper attempts to interrelate and interconnect Nine Members’ literaryworks and explain how the Neitzschean Übermensch thesis is set andpursued with a specific aim by these members.

This study aims to discuss the sentimentality of Kim Ki-rim’s text, withregard to the special aspect of his poetics in representing the “reality” ofdream and illusion. Generally, Kim Ki-rim’s text has been explained interms of its superficial modernism and excessive ideality. But a noteworthypoint of Kim Ki-rim’s text is that his reality is an unique conceptionand goes beyond a realistic description. In other words, the expressionof primitive intuitional sentimentality and non-generality is a signifiedrepresentation of truth-reality. This is related to the fact that KimKi-rim’s city-text has an intention of the potential possibility of representingthe “reality” of dream and illusion, which goes beyond the criticalreality. Analyzing “Goldfish”, “Sea and Butterfly” and “Jupiter Exile”carefully, this study exposes Kim Ki-rim’s aesthetic orientation on the artisticflaneur’s concept. *

Woman was a new subject with wide and various spectrums in themodern discourse of East Asia. When the discourse of ‘new woman’ (shinyeosŏng) emerged into the public from the long silence under the patriarchalsociety, this term became a new buzzword crossing over the boundariesbetween the new and the old, the premodern and the modern, andthe East and the West. The act and behavior of female subjects stands forthe direction of the modern civilization but also becomes an issue overtime, space, and ideological differences in East Asia that confronts theWestern modernization in the early twentieth century. Female subjects who are interpolated by the men are fated within thediscourse of the masculine society but the new woman’s movement beginsto arise in East Asia. New Women’s emancipating movements let them toimplement their own voice as “the language of the first-person,” whichwas the ultimate process of making their lives sensual and artistic. Theirvoices are multi-layered beyond the single-layered male voice. The un-precedented ‘new woman’ movement came from their dreams toward anew life. This paper looks at the pioneering aspects of these women: Na Hyesǒkin colonial Korea, Yosano Akiko in Japan, and Eileen Chang in China. These three women succeed in establishing the new woman character ineach East Asian society even beyond the differences of temporal and spatialbackground. In particular, it is worth to notice that the process of fosteringself-consciousness as a woman is also engaged to realize theself-identity as an artist. Their attempts to deepen the layers of female literarystudies as a female stylist contribute to further aestheticize the worldaround them.