The esthetic modernity brings with it a renewed understanding of the value of the artistic practice in an age that believes the social modernity as the holistic value. The concept of the esthetic modernity is very important in describing the disparity between social life and artistic practice, and the uniqueness of the artistic principles. While it is the critical attribute of art that desires to understand its own age, it also refers to the artistic epistemology as otherness. The temporality of art amounts to anti-temporality, for the esthetic quality that art presents to the social modernity positions itself as the mirror of life. The esthetic modernity ensures the continuity in the esthetic practice, while it builds the temporal validity and artistic esthetics on the integral perspective. For Ko Un who aggressively wants to put the social issues in his poetry, the esthetic modernity is significant as a new way of reading his poetry. For it is understood that such a perspective has contributed to the correction and resolution of the problems with the existing discussions that treat his poetry in a discontinued manner, splitting it into before and after 'the period of struggle'. The arguments that Ko Un's poetic development, moving through the postwar nihilism and the anti-dictatorship struggle, turns into estheticism with the 1990s separate the role of an educative intellectual and the poet and furthermore constitutes a fiction that derives from the dichotomy of theory and practice, belles lettres and engagement. The poet's poetic practice, when he becomes aware of the life of modern life, unfurls the horizon of the esthetic modernity, while in the democratic struggle in the 1980s he already reaches the 'poetic understanding of modernity' and coming into the 1990s, he attempted the internalization of modernity as his esthetic decision. With The Star of Father Country (1984) that is adjudged to establish a turning point from the inner freedom and his life as a free-spirited modernist to his aggressive understanding of the social questions, and with his poetry of the 1990s that is dominated by repentance, remorses, and discourses of recollection and reflection, Ko Un delimits the horizon of esthetic modernity as against the disruptive process of modernization. That is why Far-off Road (1999) is considered the most explicit esthetic decision that represents Ko Unof the 1990s.
한국문예창작학회(The Society of Korean Literary Creative Writing)는 한국
문학의 새 지평을 열기 위해 문예창작 이론과 문예교육 이론을 연구 계발하여 문
예창작의 새로운 방향을 제시하고자 조직한 학술단체입니다.
전국 대학과 대학원 문예창작 관련학과의 전·현직 전임교수·겸임(초빙)교수· 강
사·대학원 재학 이상자 및 문예창작인들이 회원으로 활동하고 있습니다. 학회의
목적에 적극적으로 동의하는 문학 관련 단체나 문학창작 동호인도 준회원으로 참
여하고 있습니다.
연 2회 학회지를 발간해 학문적 기반을 닦고 있으며, 정기적으로 학술 세미나
와 해외 문학 심포지엄 등 학술 발표회를 개최하여 학문적 교류와 토론의 장을
넓히고 있습니다.
한편으로, 문예창작 캠프·문학기행 등의 창작교육 활동과 창작 학습 행사를 수
시로 진행하면서, 창작·창작이론·창작교육에 관한 활동의 범위를 넓히고 있습니다.
별도로, 문예창작 교육을 받은 문예창작학도들의 진로 개발을 위해 '문예교육지도
교사 자격 시험'도 운영하고 있습니다.
The Society of Korean Literary Creative Writing is a pure academic
association for the literary cretive writing, and was organized on November
11, 2001 for the purpose of presenting the new direction of literary creative
writing by studying all the methods to activate and develop the theories of
literary creative writing and its education.
Our society is composed of professors or ex-professors, some invited
professor, lecturers, graduate students of the dept. of literary creative writing
as regular members, and the persons interested in our program as associative
members.
Our society holds an annual academic meeting-- literary symposium,
literary creative writing seminar-- and publishes the journal of our society
and our members' anthology of literary works.
Added to these, our society has already started a new project to open the
way for our literary juniors by providing them with a certificate as a leader
and holding a forum for literary creative writing.
간행물
간행물명
한국문예창작 [The Journal of Korean Literary Creative Writng]