문학공간으로서 지리산의 의미 분석 = Analysis on the Significance of Mt. Jirisan as a Background for Korean Literature

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to determine with which significance a geographic background called Mt. Jirisan has been embodied in Korean literature. As Aristotle said that literature is an imitation of Nature, literature is in indispensable relationships with Nature. Although there have been a variety of senses about Nature depending on historical trends, it is typically known that mountain symbolizes fidelity, eternity, firmness and honesty. Mountain top is associated with the god of sun, rain and thunder. And in the forerunner of ancient goddesses, the mountain symbolizes woman as land. Since Mt. Jirisan depicted in Korean literature is so much different in variety and width of significance from other Korean mountains, it is obviously necessary to make academic efforts to spotlight Mt. Jirisan as a literary background. Thus, this study sought to consider possible significances of Mt. Jirisan as background shown in Korean literature into three aspects, and analyze potential literary implications of Mt. Jirisan depicted in Korean literature works.
Chapter 2 shought to find out three major significances of Mt. Jirisan in Korean literature works. Basically, Mt. Jirisan, a background revealed in Korean literature, means a utopia, refuge and haven originated from its femininity and vitality. It keeps many evidences of conflicts and resistances as shown well in historic fierce battlefields. There have been several cycles of conflict and opposition in Mt. Jirisan throughout Korean history, and it came to have a literary significance as a space of conflicts and resistance from bloody battles. Modern and contemporary generations going through a painful history of conflicts and oppositions have paid attention to the original nature of Mt. Jirisan, and have begun to interpret it as a new promising place of harmony and creation. As the symbol of Mt. Jirisan turned from a space full of vitality and mystery to another space of resistances and conflicts driven by men, it is also men that have appealed to the nature of Mt. Jirisan to lead its advent as a new space of harmony and creation.
Chapter 3 sought to select certain literature works depicting Mt. Jirisan as background and analyze its spatial significances. In Lee Seong-bu's “Mt. Jirisan", the Mt. Jirisan keeps our modern tragic historical experiences in the age of Cold War, which mean a deep trace of conflicts and oppositions unparalleled to anything else in Korean modern history, but has been rarely addressed in our contemporary Korean literatures since 1990's. In Oh Bong-ok's “Reed Flowers in Mt. Jirisan", poetic narrator's interests in reality are combined with the background of Mt. Jirisan to poetically embody its own historical tragedy. It is also very significant that Mt. Jirisan has been re-spotlighted in its nature of forgiveness and reconciliation beyond a chain of tragedies in past. In “the Spring of Mt. Jirisan", its author Ko Jeong-hee paid attention to forgiveness, reconciliation and consolidation of Mt. Jirisan. In Mun Sun-tae's “Royal Azalea Fest", the red color of royal azalea becomes associated with bloods shed there and depicts Mt. Jirisan as a background of historical conflicts. But Mt. Jirisan has a dominant significance as a space of harmony and creation throughout this work. “Piagol", another work of Mun, sought to get an overview of long tragic history of Mt. Jirisan through a family story around Piagol in Mt. Jirisan.
As discussed above, Mt. Jirisan has a variety of significances as literary background. Mt. Jirisan as a part of Nature may come up in various forms throughout Korean literature, because Mt. Jirisan is a background in close associations with our human life. It is concluded that Mt. Jirisan has very significant values in a sense that we may look at our realities through Mt. Jirisan as embodied in various forms on Korean literature in step with variations of human life.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• 1. 연구 목적 = 1
• 2. 연구사 = 2
• 3. 연구 방법 = 4
• Ⅱ. 지리산의 문학적 의미 = 6
• 1. 이상적 도피처 = 6
• 2. 저항과 갈등의 공간 = 17
• 3. 화합과 생성의 새로운 공간 = 29
• Ⅲ. 작품 속에 나타난 지리산의 의미 분석 = 38
• 1. 시 = 38
• 1) 이성부『지리산』 = 39
• 2) 오봉옥『지리산 갈대꽃』 = 44
• 3) 고정희 『지리산의 봄』 = 46
• 2. 소설 = 49
• 1) 문순태「철쭉제」 = 50
• 2) 문순태『피아골』 = 58
• Ⅳ. 결론 = 67
• 참고문헌 = 72