설화의 현대적 수용양상 연구―삼국유사<광덕엄장조>와김동리의<원왕생가>를중심으로―

초록

In the early decades of the twentieth century, comparative literature in Korea was preoccupied with literary and cultural encounters between Korea and three major cultural sites: China, Japan, and India. As is well-known, Indian religious culture has had enormous influence on Korean culture and literature since Buddhism entered China. For instance Buddhist fables were quickly appropriated and transformed into some of the most famous Korean classic narratives in fiction. Later, Buddhist thought constituted an important source of inspiration for Shilla poetry, Hyang-Ga, manifested often in the poet’s epiphanic understanding of the essence of nature, life, social customs, and religious practice in seemingly detached descriptions of landscapes or natural objects. Dong-ri, Kim fused Zen Buddhist understanding with natural surroundings in Wonwangsangga, in such an empathetic mode that the persona and the natural other become a totality. My purpose is to consider the intellectual and historical conditions under which comparative literature has obtained such remarkable popularity and prominence in Korean scholarship and to show that the development and currency of comparative literature is closely related to the formation of Korea’s literary modernity.

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