1950年代 新聞小說 硏究 = (A) Study of the 1950’s Novels Serialized in Newspapers

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis has emerged with the necessity of the comprehensive approach to the 1950's novels serialized in newspapers which have been partly discussed within the limit of only a few works. Thus we develop the discussion by espousing literature-sociological, acceptance-esthetic methods, analyzing and studying the positive materials. Especially with the consciousness of the characters of the history of novels and popular novels, we put emphasis on reestablishing the phase of the 1950's novels serialized in newspapers by considering the phases of human beings and social cognition. Excerpt:
First, we examine the background as the first step to study the 1950's novels serialized in newspapers. As a result, we can know the fact that such popular culture during the period, as the movie and the popular music was America-inclined, and that it had a strong circulation. It means that the advent of the popular culture had affected the novels. The characters which we grasp are that the papers had increased their pages and readers, and that commercialism had been initiated. Newspaper companies had serial stories linked to a sales strategy, and the writers could not help but being exposed by its influences. The writers often promoted the companies, and used a popular factor to attract the readers' attention. Also, the stories could be changed by the readers.
Second, we grasp the meaning(sociality) of the setting by examining their social phase in the 1950's. The result is that the main characters were mostly women, people in their 20's, graduates in scholarly attainments, students, housewives, industrialists, and educators in profession. These phenomena are related to the women's problem or the aspect of love. And the reason why the characters of the higher classes were set is that it reflected the level-up desire of the masses. This shows that it is far from realizing the people of the lower classes. At the same time, the reason the novelistic function of women was strengthened is that the family system was dissolving and society was being reformed. Exoticism, decadence-epicureanism, and political distrust are reflected in appellation.
Third, pro-American ideology and anti-communism were generally hegemonic-dominant in the 1950's. When pro-American ideology was strong, newspaper novels reflected the phases of social life inundated with an American style of liberalism and decadence-epicureanism. many works represented pro-American ideology straightforwardly(Life by Kim Mal-bong, etc.). And pleasure-seeking boosted by American culture ethos like undesirable dancing trends was described in a considerable number of novels(Free Woman by Jung Bee-suk, Love by Park Hwa-sung, and Black and White by Kim Kwang-joo, etc.). Anti-communistic ideology which was the other absolute value dominating the 1950s became salient in the novels. It is true that some of them took a passive resistance by representing evil influences on McCarthyism(A Sad Pastoral Song by Jung Bee-suk, etc.), but most used anti-communist logic recklessly in their works(A Genre Picture of Season by Lee Mu-young, A Crown of Thorns by Park Young-jun, and Stars, to My Heart by Park Kea-ju, etc.).
Fourth, the perception of women's problems which was dealt in the 1950's appears as a negotiated-corporation. The works which visualized the widows' problems increased by war urged society to pay its attention to them, or often realized the problems concerned with their sexual desire(A Widow by Yum Sang-sup and A River of Temptation by Jung Bee-suk, etc.). Many works reflected the vanity of leisured women and female college students(Free Woman by Jung Bee-suk and A Garden of Affection by Choi In-ook, etc.). The novels took on a double-faced attribute that shows both limitation and perception of women's consciousness. In other words, the way they asserted the equality of the sexes is that they raised the problem by antagonizing shameless men(Stars in Lost Paradise by Kim Nae-sung, Blue Wings by Kim Mal-bong, The Mode of Life of Women by Jung Han-sook, and A Glacier by Kim young-soo), and there are also other works which maintain a negative view about the equality of the sexes(A Gigolo's Song by Jung Bee-suk, etc.). In the 1950's, the newspaper novels depicted women with ideals of the equality of the sexes scarcely became happy, nor did the novels end with happy endings. They raise the problem of sexual discrimination, but at the same time they compromise with patriarchism.
Fifth, the consciousness of the social corruption is represented as the phase of the opposition in the 1950's newspaper novels. Political distrust against politicians and high-level officials with their corruption is strongly raised in the novels(The Romantic Train and A Sad Pastoral Song by Jung Bee-suk, and Raging Waves by Jang Duck-jo, etc.), and so-called bribes-and-abusing-power-rampant normlessness is reflected(A Garden of Affection by Choi In-ook, Raging Waves by Jang Duck-jo, and A Song to Invoke the Spirits of the Dead by You Hae-jun, etc.), and rampant money-oriented ethos is also represented(Stars, to My Heart by Park Kea-ju, A Crown of Thorns by Park Young-jun, Life and The Season of the Corolla by Kim Mal-bong, etc.). These social critics are followed by the revelation of the willing to restructure society. That the novels performed the enlightening and leading functions is shown by the fact that they captured the sites of overcoming the ruins from war and gave spotlights to production by visualizing them.
Sixth, the erotic, the sentimental, and the barbaric among popular factors known as esthetics of popular art have been mainly espoused. The erotic which is considered to be influenced by Hollywood movies played the most important role in attracting readers, and letting them be exposed to the experience of a life of escape from their gloomy situation right after the war. We cannot exclude the point that it is a 'cheap tear' which paralyzes their awareness of reality, but it conducted a social function which gives them catharsis. The reason the barbaric is prominent which was not before is that they experienced enormous violence called war, and that it is greatly influenced by Hollywood action movies or Westerns.
Seventh, we can find the novel-historical meaning of the 1950's newspaper novels by synthesizing the analysis: they succeeded to the patterns of the novels of manners created mainly in the 1930's, they paved the way to serious popular novels by leaping activation in the late 1930's, they partly played an alternative role of realism literature by presenting, though it is limited, reality-criticism which was hard to settle due to an ossified political system. That is, it is the 1950's newspaper novels that exerted their function of 'entertainment of life,' and maintained the soundness facing the 1960's distribution of TV sets during the period of popular culture's advent.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 目次
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• 1. 연구 목적과 연구사 검토 =1
• 2. 연구 방법과 범위 = 5
• Ⅱ. 1950년대 신문소설의 성장 배경 = 14
• 1. 대중문화의 양상과 신문의 성격 = 14
• 2. 상업주의 경향과 작가들의 역할 = 22
• 3. 독자들의 인식과 참여의 양상 = 27
• Ⅲ. 1950년대 신문소설의 인간상과 사회인식 = 40
• 1. 주요 작중인물의 사회적 위상 = 40
• 2. 순응적 사회인식 : 친미-반공 이데올로기 수용의 경직성 = 52
• 1) 친미이데올로기의 확산 = 52
• 2) 퇴폐·향락풍조의 만연 = 58
• 3) 반공이데올로기의 영향 = 70
• 3. 타협적 사회인식 : 여성문제 의미화의 양면성 = 80
• 1) 전쟁미망인의 방황과 구원 = 80
• 2) 유한부인과 여대생의 탈선 = 91
• 3) 여성의식의 자각과 한계 = 98
• 4. 대항적 사회인식 : 사회부패상의 고발과 재건의지의 발현 =112
• 1) 지도층에 대한 불신 = 112
• 2) 무규범성의 사회와 물질만능주의 비판 = 123
• 3) 실천적 사회재건의 계몽성 = 137
• Ⅳ. 1950년대 신문소설의 통속성과 소설사적 의의 = 150
• 1. 통속성의 양상과 그 의미 = 150
• 2. 1950년대 신문소설의 소설사적 의의 = 165
• Ⅴ. 결론 = 169
• 참고문헌 = 173
• = 179
• 부록 Ⅰ 1950년대 신문소설의 주요 작중인물 일람 = 182
• 부록 Ⅱ 1950년대 신문소설의 작품별 개요 = 189