오장환의 사잇길

• 영문명: Oh Jang-hwan's Middle Path
• 발행기관: 한국언어문학회
• 저자명: 오문석(Oh, Moon-seok)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국언어문학』韓國言語文學 第95輯, 445~463쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 한국어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.31

영문 초록

The poets of the 1930s could be classified into two groups by their poetic orientations. One group pursued poetic innovation by receiving modern civilization of the West; the other had recourse to nostalgic restoration of the lost tradition. Oh Jang-hwan, however, denied to belong to either of poetic groups. He stood on the in-between space, neither on the modern city nor on the traditional village. At one point, he paid attention to the seamy side of the modern city in which prostitution, gambling and drugs prevailed to criticize hypocritic life of the city. Of course, he did not champion traditional life. He engaged in disclosing the hypocricy and duplicity of traditional morality when many cultural nationalist harked back to the so-called traditional way of life. For him, traditional ethics was a kind of monstrous social machine forcing individuals' sacrifice under the name of family. In order to imagine a flight-line from this oppressive traditional ethics, he often idealized the modern individual's desire that challenged traditional norm. Viewed in this way, he seemed to be a pessimistic skeptic who denied both modernity and tradition at the same time. However, he was not a skeptic. Rather he was closer to the experimentalist, who juxtaposed both modernity and tradition to make them deconstruct each other. In other words, he chose 'middle path' when the society forced to choose either modernity or tradition. By doing so, he opened up a new possibility of combining modernity and tradition dialectically.

목차

1. 이중의 소외

2. 전통의 안과 바깥

3. 도시와 고향의 사이

4. 오장환의 자리

키워드

오장환 근대 전통 고향 대도시의 뒷골목 사잇길 욕망. Oh Jang-hwan modernity tradition middle path modern city desire.