한국문학사에서의 고전아동문학 성립가능성에 관한 일고(一考)

Up to now, Children`s literature has treated indifferently in a field of the history of Korean literature, and scholars also have recognized that the history of Children`s literature is the same as a history of modern children`s literature which was fairly new arrival in 1920`s. But, so many children`s works, which can be called by classical children`s literature, have existed separately from modern children`s literature. One of the representative book on the history of Korean literature, HanGukMunHakTongSa(『韓國文學通史』) written by ChoDong-Ⅱ, fortunately was concerned about children`s literature and described it precisely well with a critical mind. Most of all, TongSa has a point of view different from other critics who study children`s literature: that is where TongSa recognize a child as a writer, reader, and hearer of children`s literature, namely, at the subject of enjoyment of their literature. And TongSa also placed high value on a traditional children`s song with childish innocence. These point of view shows that TongSa considered importantly premodern works for children in narrating the history of Korean literature. By the way, though TongSa has a critical mind about children`s literature, it just appeared sporadically, unsystematically and not consistently in an explanation without any critical mind for a matter of continuity between classical and modern children`s literature. And TongSa rarely treated traditional fairy tale, traditional children`s song, and chinese poetry by children in connection with classical children`s literature. It shows us that classical children`s literature don`t has been valued properly. Scholars of children`s literature need to be interested in classical children`s literature and to try to make have correct position of him in the history of korean literature.