『한국언어문학』 현대문학 분야 수록논문분석

The Trend and Prospect of the Study on Korean Modern literature

'This thesis is written to celebrate of the forty anniversary of "The Korean Language & Literature Society of Korea". The contents of this thesis checks up the flow and direction of study on Korean modern literature that I analyzed 365 piece of thesis into a genre. They had been written from 1963 to 2002. The classification according to genre like this: a study on fiction - 175 (49.15%), a study on poetry - 116(32.58%), a study on a literary history or criticism -37(10.39%), a study on drama -14(3.93%), a study on the education of literature - 13(3.65%), a study on essay - 1(0.28%). The distinctive features of those studies are that it is as follows: First, the early period, the chief part of those studies was a study on the principles of literature, after that, in the latter half of the 70's, the study of work that makes researches in internal principal of text is getting increasing. But the great part of those had a limit that is, a projection, commentary and a process of poetics work separately. Second, an aspect of an object of study, those were researching on works or writers of the front of 1945 - The Korean liberation besides, the reason why a few of writers were studied those had showed disposition of region. Third, the study of literature was activated by the rising researchers that they enter the stage since 1990. Therefore, the study on Korean Modem literature should expand the object of study and next, the study should make preparations for The Korean unification and third, we should raise a necessity of the literature study, the last, we should study better on contemporary literature.