This essay examines Kim Suyŏng’s poems with the focus on their aesthetic ontology and corresponding literary forms in their historical context. In contrast to previous scholarship, which portrays Kim Suyŏng as either a political realist or a modernist within a narrowly defined political reading, with the assumption that his poetry was completely changed after the April Revolution in 1960, my study places his poetry in a broader cultural and historical context, demonstrating that his poetic ideal is the retrieval of an ultimate subjectivity or sovereignty of the imagination immanent in vernacular Korean, throughout his poetic career. My analysis of Kim Suyŏng’s works reveals how he pursued a poetic vision of sovereignty often threatened not only by colonization and subsequent national division, but also by compressed modernization. Moreover, my reading of his poetry demonstrates how Kim Suyŏng fundamentally changed the understanding of language from a vehicle of communicative meaning to a form of ultimate imagination. My study explains how he equated a poetic ideal with a political vision without sacrificing either the existential complexities of an individual or a social reality.
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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: THE SOVEREIGNTY OF LANGUAGE POETRY OF SILENCE PRE-LINGUISTIC SOUNDS OF ANIMALS OR HUMANS: WORDS OF IMMANENCE CHIASTIC STRINGS: ROAD TO NEW MEANING IN SILENCE REPETITION TOWARD SILENCE REVOLUTION, TOO EASY SOUND OF CHAOS, MEANING OF CHIASMUS CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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sovereignty of languagesilencedeathchiasmusbinary oppositionimmanencerevolutionpoetic idealpolitical vision
저자
YOUNG-JUN LEE [ an assistant professor in the Humanitas College, Kyung Hee 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.