발전사관을 넘어 국문학 연구를 생각한다 = Thinking of Korean Literature Research beyond the Developmental View of History

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Claims that the internal modernization of this country brought the development of Korean literature are not true. They were just made by requests from nationalism after the beginning of the 20th century. The asserted spontaneous modernization of Korean literature has been a logic that implicitly but naturally justifies the capitalist modern times. But actually, those times that we reached is not a utopia, but a hell of fire. Thus, the developmental view of history which is embedded within the theory of the internal development of Korean literature should be fully reviewed and criticized. This suggests it’s unreasonable to unconditionally ignore the pre-modern times from the perspective of the modern times. Literature of the pre-modern times should be treated as meaningful within the contexts of the same period. The pre-modern times needs to be considered as the storage of speculations which are required for transition to the capitalist modern times rather than as what has to be overcome or abolished. Here, importantly, works of pre-modern literature would be able to support that consideration. Of course, this should not be construed approving all aspects of the pre-modern times.