기독교 아동문학의 가능성: C.S.루이스의 동화적 상상력을 중심으로 = Possibility of Christian Children`s Literature: A Study on Imagination of Fairy Tale by C.S.Lewis

국문 초록 (Abstract)

루이스의 동화 나르니아 연대기 는 전체 7권으로 이루어져 있으며, 루이스를 문서선교사, 또는 아동문학가로 불릴만한 명예를 안겨주었다. 일반 동화와는 달리 루이스는 화자(Narrator)로서 독특한 기능을 하고 있는데, 그것은 독자로 하여금, 객관적 사고나 윤리적 사유를 도출할 수 있도록 한다. 이 연대기 동화는 무엇보다도 기독교적인 구원론을 종교적 상상력으로 묘사하고 있다. 루이스는 이성적인 서술만으로는 세계를 표현하는데 한계를 느껴, 신화, 마법, 동화적인 기법을 활용하고 있다. 그의 작품에는 특히 상징적 대립구도와 성경적 인유(Biblical Allusion)가 눈에 뜨이는데, 이로서 기독교적 성향이 두드러진다. 루이스 동화는 이야기 교육학의 일환으로 포스트모던 시대에 걸맞는 표현기법을 동원, 많은 독자들을 기독교적 대화의 장으로 초대하고 있는 것이다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

C.S.Lewis wrote many books as a professor, literature-critic, poet, autobiographor, and apologist. In this thesis we will look at him as a literary missionary, because he tried with his various works, to express and to confess the basic christian faith. As the author of the Narnia Chronicles for children he is famous in the whole world. This thesis will look at some charateristics of the Christian Childrens`s Literature which C.S.Lewis wrote. Narnia Chronicles belong to Fairy Tale, and is full of religious and mythical Imagination. Lewis` Role as Narrator in his works let the reader think rationally and morally. The Writer speaks with his reader, to get objective reflection. In Narnia Chronicles allegorical and symbolic dualism are constructed: the good power and the bad, civitas Dei and civitas diaboli, moral and immoral action, etc. And many figures are characterized in this direction. Further more biblical allusions show reader Lewis` intention: In the Silver Chair he wrote, If you are thirsty, you may drink. (p.16). This sentence can compared with the Bible; Jesus stood and cried out, saying, if any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. (John 8:12). We observe in Narnia Chronicles: 1) Lewis teaches us a narrative pedagogy, a new method for children`s education with fairy tale. 2) Lewis express religious imagination in postmodern times in which man is searching. 3) Lewis as Narrator will be messenger of the christian faith. 4) Lewis indicated the zero zone between the christian and the nonchristian. The Narnia Chronicles should be a model for not only children`s literature and but also for literary works in generally.