A poem’s strength lies in its compressibility. As Paul Valery said, poetry can embody an epic in just a few notes. This kind of compressibility makes poetry easy to spread and by spreading practices intuitive power. Barthes concluded the base and the beginning of literature was within the potentials within the compressibility of words and emphasized it in his ‘Last Lectures’. Haiku also carries the same potential and is the starting point for short memo-like writing. However the short poetic writing of Haiku, as pointed by Barthes, is not exclusive to Japanese culture and is evident across many different cultures in a form of short poems or writings. The analysis of the literary image of Haiku and its philosophical evaluation discussed in Barthes’s ‘Last Lectures’ is required in the level of Barthes’s thought and literary theory research, but also in the level of research on consumption of haiku and its images. But in previous studies, philosophical implications of haiku and what is covered in the ‘Last Lectures’ has not been sufficiently discussed in earnest. This paper examines the major themes of ‘Haiku characteristics’ of literary theory in the ‘Last Lectures’ by Roland Barthes. And this is not the direct analysis of the haiku text, tried to analyze the philosophical Haiku characteristics and it reveals its features.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.