The purpose of this study is to analyze the esthetic experience and the process of creating a meaning on the literature of Garam Lee Byeong-gi from the phenomenological point of view and also to explain how the structure of meaning constructed in his ...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the esthetic experience and the process of creating a meaning on the literature of Garam Lee Byeong-gi from the phenomenological point of view and also to explain how the structure of meaning constructed in his works and the formal esthetics of language covered up in his works should be shaped in the speaker’s consciousness.
In aspects of literacy practice, I investigated the process that the literature of Garam located on the boundary between the tradition and the modern had obtained the modernity, having succeeded in the tradition of literature before the modern.
The conclusions are as follows.
First, the existence and the time that consisted of the consciousness structure of Garam’s literature could be analyzed as the basic existence and historical time, and daily There-being and the existential time.
In the case of the original existence and the historical time, the structure of consciousness that represented the circulatory world view or the endless circulatory order of four seasons could be considered. This showed that the poetic object reflecting the consciousness about the historical time connoting the original existence was phenomenalized.
In the case of the daily There-Being and existential time, if the original and historical consciousness could be inferred through the phenomenological analysis of ‘an maehwa blossom’ and ‘spring’, the problem of daily life was appeared as the aspect of uneasiness, worry, curiosity, and fatigue. This was specifically revealed through the family problem, the thought about his mother and the consciousness about the various poetic object that could look over the a view of world.
Second, the ordinariness of the literary spirit flowing through Garam’s literature could be investigated. The ordinariness was the central concept to analyze Garam’s literature and to give the meaning to it. And it was closely related to writer’s personal history. The personal aspect involved in Garam’s life was the representation that confirmed the gap between the family’s ordeal and the totality like the race or the nation or that show the gap clearly. The specific fields of Garam’s life are literary phenomenalized.
The esthetic sense of Garam’s literature could be found out in the fact that the slight discoveries of daily life and the experiences, which were the origin of literature, could be embodied to the esthetic experiences and be literary phenomenalized.
Third, the independence of Garam’s literature was considered. The independence was the important concept to notice the process to generate the independent’s consciousness in Garam’s literature. The relation between the consciousness inside and the consciousness outside was chased.
In the character of the poetic object ‘Jib(house)’, the space as the dwelling and the specific sense of place were evenly distributed in Garam’s works. The consciousness structure of Garam which frequented inside and outside of the house intensively turned up through the enjoyment of ‘Nan(orchid)’, one of constituents of house.’ ‘Nan(an orchid)’ and ‘an maehwa blossom’ represented the temperament of the traditional gentry, but in Garam’s literature, they were the media that showed the writer’s life and the spiritual directivity intensively. Through this process, Garam reached the stage of modern independent awareness that connected the linguistic phenomenon with the personal independence closely.
Fourth, the popularity of Garam’s literature was investigated. the popularity was the relative concept about the special genre character pervaded in the view of shijo in Garam’s days. In the side of excavation of the classics and the modernly succession of the traditional genre, the process that the genre property of shijo flowing through premodern and modern had been born again as the modern style through shijo and the theory of shijo of Garam could be considered.
The clearness and easiness of modern shijo as the popular literature advocated through the theory of shijo renovation could be found out. The theory of literature of Garam excavated our traditional theory rather than the foreign theory and gave the first consideration to the esthetics of Korean language. Garam insisted shijo as literature to write not as shijo to sing, and he penetrated that the breakaway of music was the key of modernization. For this, he was sure that shijo to sing should move to shijo to read and he insisted that instead of ‘tune’, ‘tone’ should be a inner rhythm that the modern shijo possessed and the speech and the sound should coincide.
The literature of Garam kept entirely the fetter of Korean modern history and made the personal esthetic experience phenomenalize through the various literary genre. This study is a work to look into the literary character and spirit diversely in the view point of the literature history. However, it is one of the various view points that research the literature and literary character of Garam. I hope that the following studies approach the analysis of a variety of literature of Garam through the strict and various methods of literature research.