한국현대희곡 및 비평 연구의 동향과 전망

The Trend and Prospect of the Studies on Korean Modern Dramas and Criticisms of Korean Language & Literature

This thesis was conducted to understand the current status of researches regarding Korean modern drama and criticism published in Korean Language and Literature and to suggest assignments and prospects of future research in celebration of the 50th anniversary of "The Korean Language & Literature Society". First, the 21 articles pertaining to Korean modern drama were classified into work theory, writer theory, theater theory, and drama history to be investigated. The results confirmed productive changes such as inheritance of traditional genre, influence of western pattern, acceptance of various modern media, and diversification of research methodology. Next, the 61 articles concerning Korean modern literary criticism were divided into articles before 1990 and articles after 1990 to be evaluated. As results, encouraging changes were observed, including increased quantity of published articles every year and expansion of study subjects, strengthened recognition and diversification on literary criticism methodology, and reinforced perceptions on modern literary history. In the future, it is expected that all the Korean modern drama and criticism studies can accomplish academic developments through the expansion of study scope as well as diversification of methodology.