Due to yadam’s characteristic narrative principles that foreground actions and plots, space has played a minimal role. However, particular attention has been paid to the description of space and landscape in the so-called ‘utopia-seeking’ yadam stories. This article analyzes the motives for creating a utopia and its manner of functioning as a landscape in these utopian yadam stories. Utopia creators construct a very exclusive utopia into which they invite visitors to enter. The utopia creators want to show their visitors not just the landscape itself but traces of communal life. The third landscape is either discovered or presumed by these utopia creators, and then introduced to their visitors. This place of absolute spectacle transcends the utopia creators’ lives. Once they become accustomed to the utopia as a place for living in, it loses its freshness and charm as a spectacle itself. Therefore, the utopia creators covertly seek another space that can be appreciated strictly as a spectacle. This experience of the third landscape provides visitors with a decisive chance to cleanse themselves from the dregs of worldly desire and be reborn as new human beings. The more strongly they experience the spectacle, however, the harder it is for them to return to their former lives when they return home. As a result, worldly men try to revisit the utopia; their attempts are unsuccessful, however, because a utopia will not accept anyone who tries to return from the earthly world. The utopian landscape stories of yadam hint at the paradoxical fate of people who simultaneously recall both a utopia and the earthly world.
목차
Abstract 1. INTRODUCTION 2. MOTIVES FOR CONSTRUCTING UTOPIAS 3. THE VISITOR’S PERSPECTIVE AND THE LANDSCAPE OF UTOPIA 3.1 Vistors who cannot see and those who are not willing to see 3.2 Visitors who seek something extraordinary 4. A THIRD LANDSCAPE WITHIN OR OUTSIDE A UTOPIA 4.1. The meaning of a third landscape 4.2 Realization and witnessing of a third landscape 4.3 The paradox of sightseeing a third landscape 5. CONCLUSION REFERENCES
키워드
yadamutopialandscapevisitorcommunal lifespectacleparadoxical fateearthly world
저자
LEE KANG-OK [ a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education, Yeungnam University, Korea. ]
한국연구원은 1970년 5월 한국 민속의 각 분야에 걸친 자료의 수집과 학술적 연구를 목적으로 '한국민속연구소'로 출발하였다. 그 후 1973년 5월 연구 분야를 확대하며 민속뿐만 아니라 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 위해 '한국학연구소'로 개편하였고, 다시 1989년 3월 한국의 국제적 위상의 부상과 함께 한국학 연구의 중요성이 높아짐에 따라 '한국학연구원'으로 확대, 개편하였다. 한국학연구원은 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 통해 지역과 민족문화 발전에 기여하며 한국학의 세계화를 위해서 학술활동을 강화하고 나아가 내·외국인에 대한 한국문화 교육을 담당하고자 한다.