허문일의 농민문학 연구

This paper considers synthetically the characteristics of Heo, Munil`s literature. He was a member of Joseon Nongmin Sa and devoted himself to peasant literature, as a person of peasant class.<BR> First, considering his comments on literature, they were mainly reformative and evidently actual.<BR> Secondly, actualism is comparatively prevailed over reformism in the meaning structure of Heo`s poetry. He achieved the artistic form of modem free verse, which obtains the wholeness through the formal structure in accordance with the meaning structure.<BR> Thirdly, according to theme, his novels, like his poems, were classified by three types such as reformist peasant novels, actualist peasant novels, and reformist-actualist peasant novels. Among them, the third one described critically the reality of peasants in those days, as a nationalist literature.<BR> Fourthly, his first two dramas don`t belong to a peasant literature, but we can trace their source, which is Donghak as a modem independent nationalist thought.<BR> Fifthly, in his nursery rhymes, there coexist reformist enlightenment and actualist criticism, but the former shows a special quality. Fairy tales have instructive enlightenment for the most part.<BR> The reason why he could obtain those results is that he, a believer in Cheondo-gyo, wove artistically critical actualism into enlightened reformism from Donghak, which was a symbol of modem independent nationalist thought in the Enlightenment Age of Joseon dynasty.