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Hambuk Dialect in Kim Kirim’s Short Stories Focusing on “Along a Railroad”

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2022, 79(2), pp.191-219
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.79.2.202205.191
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 10, 2022
  • Accepted : May 5, 2022
  • Published : May 31, 2022

Seong-hoon Jung 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to investigate why Kim Kirim mostly used standard language in his poetry, by analyzing the way dialects appear in his short stories and its meaning. Kim used the dialects of Hakseong in short stories which set in Hambuk, his hometown. These dialects were not used simply to get the reality or emphasize the aesthetic sense. The hierarchy between the dialects in “Along a Railroad” is related to awareness of the position of his hometown in the modernization. Also, Hambuk dialect is positioned as a thing of the past, so he thought that values of ‘hardness’ and ‘health’, which Hamgyeong-do had, would be ousted under the offensive of capital. As a result, he excluded dialects from his modernism poetry singing modern civilization. Whether to use dialects as a literary language is not only made at the aesthetic level, but also is related to the perception of modern civilization.

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