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Kye Yongmook and Pyongbuk Dialect

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2020, 77(3), pp.257-287
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.77.3.202008.257
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 10, 2020
  • Accepted : August 7, 2020
  • Published : August 31, 2020

YU, SEOHYUN 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study asserts that the Pyongbuk dialect of Kye Yongmook’s fiction extends beyond the simple use of his mother tongue and is in fact an intentional literary choice. In section two of this study, I illustrate that Kye uses Pyongbuk dialect not as an unconscious, natural language, but rather as an intentional literary language, by comparing his works prior to 1935 to those after, the latter of which display a significant expansion in use of Pyongbuk dialect. In 1935 Kye Yongmook began preparing the magazine Haejo, founded on a critical attitude towards the center of literary society in Gyeongseong, with a literary coterie of young writers from Pyongbuk region. It is likely that the ‘late’ entrance of Pyongbuk dialect into Kye’s literary works is related to this context. In section three, I compare Kye’s works as they appeared in magazines to their later collected forms, focusing on changes in dialect that appear in the revision process, to show that dialect was an important concern for Kye in editing and organizing his body of work. As major modern literary figures began to form an exclusionary literary center in Gyeongseong in the early twentieth century, consolidating an invisible hierarchy of standard and regional dialect, the peculiarity and significance of Kye strengthening his use of Pyongbuk dialect at every turning point in his literary career is worthy of investigation.

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