The theme known as the self-enquiry of a poet or the self-reference of literature is the one of the characteristic trends of Korean Modernist Literature of the 1930s. And the self-reference of literature is based on the establishment modern aesthetic ...
The theme known as the self-enquiry of a poet or the self-reference of literature is the one of the characteristic trends of Korean Modernist Literature of the 1930s. And the self-reference of literature is based on the establishment modern aesthetic subjectivity. Before literature and art is regarded as the mimesis of the outside world, but now it represents itself. When it indicate oneself, it must be split inevitably. And the subject of poetic subject comes into being who bursts and rebuilds self-identity by withdrawing oneself form a web of the symbolic in the experience of the division. Kim Kirim`s peculiar concept called moving subject is defined as constant burst of self-identity a specified identity protects single personality as a cogito. Namely, moving subject is a kind of modern text-subject and the destruction of the concept of the autistic subject that has been confined in the system as art and the idea. His concept called moving subject is relevant to the angle of Jean Cocteau. This paper is intended to explain the meaning of poetic subject and, under such an account, to reconstruct the poetics of the Kyoungsung street.