이태준 고전 담론과 『文章』의 낭만주의 -내간체의 발견과 〈춘향전〉의 귀환을 중심으로- = The Invention of ‘Naeganche’ and the Return of Chunhyangjeon : the Discourse of Korean Classic Literature and Lee Tae-jun’s Romanticism

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This article analyzes the romanticism of Lee Tae-Jun and “Munjang”, a coterie magazine founded in 1939, focusing on the discourse of ‘Korean Classic Literature’. Unlike the former researchers’ view, Lee Tae-Jun’s romantic perspective on the Korean Classic Literature was able to be distinguished not only from Hú Shì(胡適)’s, but also from Lee Byeong-Ki’s. Lee Tae-Jun’s romanticism symbolized by his tendency of ethnographic exhibition toward the Korean Classic literature, initialized the language of Orientalism. Dividing the past of Korean language and literature from the modern, he tried to invent a modernity of Korean language and literature. In this process of objectification, the idea of a ‘Second Naivete’, based on the Romanticism from the European modernity, was combined with the Orientalism (東洋論) of Japanese Imperialism. The Invention of ‘Naeganche’ and the Return of Chunhyangjeon in Munjang’s period were the output of Lee Tae-Jun’s romantic perspective. The legacy of Lee Tae-Jun’s romanticism, consequently, is still influencing the research fields of Korean language and literature, especially of the Korean Classic Literature.