This study aimed to reveal the literary achievements as a critic centering literary life and artworks of Woo-jung Kim in 1960s who has not been spotlighted in Korean literary criticism history.Woo-jung Kim's literary career began at the literary secti...
This study aimed to reveal the literary achievements as a critic centering literary life and artworks of Woo-jung Kim in 1960s who has not been spotlighted in Korean literary criticism history.Woo-jung Kim's literary career began at the literary section of the Mokpo Public Commercial Middle School to be a poet, and he published the collection of poems, 『A poem in hell and sun』 in 1958 without going on the platform. He was formally trained to be a poet and wanted to be a true poetic creator by going on the platform with 「Conversation」. He realized to be a critic as the finding the reason for causeless thing by the selection on the annual spring literary contest of <Chosunilbo> in 1962 after several tries on the annual spring literary contests after became a poet.
Woo-jung Kim was a critic not belonging to literature field described centering 『Literature and Intelligence』 and 『Creation and Criticism』 centering 『Prose Era』 in 1960s. So, he was alienated in historical development of literary criticism because he worked at the outside of dynamic composition such as literary genealogy, literary power or symbolic struggle. There is need for historical literary historical approach to the dynamic composition in case of Woo-jung Kim. The evaluation for the achievements of the writers not involved in the dynamic relationship or genealogical system can not be neglected though it should be recognized that actually all writers and artworks can not be the target for research. It is because he leaved not a little achievements as a critic sincerely by implementing literary role as a literary critic as a 4.19 generation in 1960s.