Yi Gwang-Su divided meanings of ‘문학’(文學, literature) into the ‘general science’ and the ‘emotional writing.’ The one is a traditional meaning of ‘literature’ and the other is its novel and specialized meaning appeared in modern time. He argued that the tradition Korean placed much value on ‘지’(知, kn...
Yi Gwang-Su divided meanings of ‘문학’(文學, literature) into the ‘general science’ and the ‘emotional writing.’ The one is a traditional meaning of ‘literature’ and the other is its novel and specialized meaning appeared in modern time. He argued that the tradition Korean placed much value on ‘지’(知, knowledge) and ‘의’(意, meaning) but relevantly ignored ‘정’(情, sentiment). Therefore He convinced the literature to be a good device of ‘emotional education’ which helped the people to realize ‘the self’ placed their inside, and finally invented a modern individuality. With describing the conflict between the traditional and the modern world view as ‘무정’(Heartless) versus ‘사랑’(love) in this early writing, Yi Gwang -Su argued the very need of transference from the one into the other. He illuminated this subject with early short stories like 〈愛か〉(what a love), 〈무정〉(heartless), 〈소년의 비애〉(a boy’s sorrow) and 〈어린 벗에게〉(to younger friend) etc. He argued that asking for the ‘love’ was an essential as well as a primitive human nature, so when the society refused the people to fulfill the emotional need, the literature substituted for that function of the society. In this point, his discourses gained an enlightening characteristic. Yi Gwang-Su believed that the ‘sympathy’ was a main factor to people find the interest in the literature. And based on the hypothesis, he explored the political function of the literature: imagining ‘the nation.’ The ‘sympathy’ premised a find of the others, and to imagine a commonness between me and them. This sentiment makes it possible to imagine a group of people sharing with the same feeling and life: the nation. The sentiment sublimates the private self into the public self under the condition that the ‘society=nation’ ensures him able to realize the ‘good life’ or the ‘superbness of the soul’. In fact, It seems that he is not the case, but rather, for him to be the nation does not mean the self-realization in the nation but the self-sacrifice for the nation. Therefore, when the fulfillment of love for the self was guaranteed, his ‘sympathy’ possibly extended beyond the nation into another objects(when lucky human being, when worse Japanese).
Yi Gwang-Su divided meanings of ‘문학’(文學, literature) into the ‘general science’ and the ‘emotional writing.’ The one is a traditional meaning of ‘literature’ and the other is its novel and specialized meaning appeared in modern time. He argued that the tradition Korean placed much value on ‘지’(知, knowledge) and ‘의’(意, meaning) but relevantly ignored ‘정’(情, sentiment). Therefore He convinced the literature to be a good device of ‘emotional education’ which helped the people to realize ‘the self’ placed their inside, and finally invented a modern individuality. With describing the conflict between the traditional and the modern world view as ‘무정’(Heartless) versus ‘사랑’(love) in this early writing, Yi Gwang -Su argued the very need of transference from the one into the other. He illuminated this subject with early short stories like 〈愛か〉(what a love), 〈무정〉(heartless), 〈소년의 비애〉(a boy’s sorrow) and 〈어린 벗에게〉(to younger friend) etc. He argued that asking for the ‘love’ was an essential as well as a primitive human nature, so when the society refused the people to fulfill the emotional need, the literature substituted for that function of the society. In this point, his discourses gained an enlightening characteristic. Yi Gwang-Su believed that the ‘sympathy’ was a main factor to people find the interest in the literature. And based on the hypothesis, he explored the political function of the literature: imagining ‘the nation.’ The ‘sympathy’ premised a find of the others, and to imagine a commonness between me and them. This sentiment makes it possible to imagine a group of people sharing with the same feeling and life: the nation. The sentiment sublimates the private self into the public self under the condition that the ‘society=nation’ ensures him able to realize the ‘good life’ or the ‘superbness of the soul’. In fact, It seems that he is not the case, but rather, for him to be the nation does not mean the self-realization in the nation but the self-sacrifice for the nation. Therefore, when the fulfillment of love for the self was guaranteed, his ‘sympathy’ possibly extended beyond the nation into another objects(when lucky human being, when worse Japanese).
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