산문시의 형식과 근대 문학 담당층의 산문시 인식 = The Formation of Prose Poem and Perception on it by People in Charge of Modern Literature

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper aims to study the concept and theory of prose poem of Korea and to examine the awareness of prose poem by the people in charge of early modern poetry. For a long time, prose poem was not properly understood by people. From the beginning of modern literature, prose poem was introduced and written with free verse at the same time, however, meaningful poetics or studies has not been accumulated. Until today, prose poem occupies an important place in contemporary poetry, without being precisely defined nor the aesthetic rules being laid down. Prose poem has been developed through antagonism with free verse and this is not just the problem of prose poem, but it is also deeply related to the various quests and experiments of Korean poetry. Free verse has been continuously developed, on the other hand, prose poem has showed the aspect of reduction and expansion. This means that prose poem is the form in which we can confirm the reduction and expansion of the horizon of Korean modern and contemporary history of poetry. In other word, how prose poem has been created and through which process it settled down as a concrete form become not only the concern of prose poem but the concern of Korean poetry. In this aspect, the question on prose poem can, over the question of 'what is prose poem?', be the indirect answer to question on the birth and self-confirmation of Korean poetry, that is, the fundamental question of 'What was poetry and what was the poetic thing?' This paper is planned as a preparatory study to clarify this question and critical mind and paid attention especially to comments and works of 이광수(Lee, Kwangsoo), 최학송(Choi, Haksong) and 김억(Kim, Eok). This paper tries to examine that prose poem was what kind of form at that time and how it was understood within the practical writings and comments on prose poem by them. It is because 이광수 and 김억 greatly influenced on the formation of modern literature and stated their own theory of literature and poetics. In conclusion, prose poem at that time was variously used not as a fixed form, but as a prose literature, the same concept with free verse. Writings by 최학송(Choi, Haksong) were very close to aesthetical sentence rather than poetry and 김억(Kim, Eok) possessed a form of contemporary prose poem and created ‘님’, a part of Korean literary tradition, however, this ended as a one-time and fragmentary, especially exceptional attempt. There could be various reasons for these disorder and confusion, but most of all, the emphasis on musicality, that is, poetry is to recite was rooted. When 'to recite' and 'emphasis on musicality' are perceived as the essence of poetry, poetry with the form of prose poem and prose poem which would be understood as not being possessed with a fixed form as a poetry become estranged from the interest of people in charge of literature in this period.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 문제제기
• 2. 산문ㆍ산문시
• 3. 산문시의 번역과 창작
• 4. 산문문학으로서의 산문시 - 이광수와 최학송의 산문시
• 5. 자유시로서의 산문시 - 김억의 시론과 『밤과 나』
• 6. 결론
• 참고문헌
• Abstract