This article discusses what directions Korean literary study must take in the 21st century. During the 20th century, for hundred years, Korean literature has been refered to as Joseon Literature under the Japanese colonial period.
National Literature...
This article discusses what directions Korean literary study must take in the 21st century. During the 20th century, for hundred years, Korean literature has been refered to as Joseon Literature under the Japanese colonial period.
National Literature after independence, and Korean Literature in the past few decades. As the changes of name indicate Korean literary study followed different point of view according to the period. Currently, Korean Literary Study is facing a crisis along with the crisis of Liberal Arts Study.
In order to revitalize the study of Korean Literature we must take two steps of measure. First of all, we have to intergrate Korean Linguistic and Korean Literature. Linguistic must be observed as form of literature but sofar it has been excluded from Literary Study. Secondly, we must reflect upon the socio-cultural background of each literary piece. Literary Study should not indulge in the study of specific piece of literature but must reveal the cultural code of its period that formulated such literature. I call such literary study, which combines both measures, pan-socio-cultural study. A productive future of Korean Literary Study lies in pan-socio-cultural study.