李善熙 小說 硏究 : 人物의 三角構造와 象徵을 中心으로 Centering on Symbols and Triangular Structure of Characters = A Study on Lee Sun-Hee's Novels

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Lee Sun-Hee (1911-1949?) was a female writer who made her debut in the later years of the 1930's and produced works till the 1940's. Beginning her literary career as a magazine reporter, Lee produced 16 novels and 40 essays and miscellanies, but there still has been no serious studies on her literary world. Just some fragmentary records are found of her life with no detailed description, and the year of her death is not yet identified.
With the growth of pure literature under the social and literary conditions of the 1930's, Lee developed her literary world in the position of pure literature. Her literary achievement deserves an important position in the history of Korean literature for her characteristics of sensitivity and aestheticism; in fact, however, being a female writer, she is not yet regarded as a major writer worthy of serious research.
This thesis tries to analyse her world view through examining the structure and symbol of her works. Theories of mythological criticism, psychological criticism, and principles of symbol and image are employed for the analysis. The following are the conclusions of the approach.
1. The structure of characters in Lee Sun-Hee's novels is triangular. It is the repetitive representation of the structure of Whan-woong, Woong-nye (Bear-woman), and Ho (Tiger) of the Dan-Kun myth.
2. Woong-nye is an archetype of adaptation, perseverance, sincerity, and restored self-identity, making a good contrast with the negative, dissipated, and insincere tiger-type which fails to resume its self-identity.
3. The characters of Lee's novels reveals the confrontation of these two archetypal characters through the oppositional structure, in which the tiger-type women are the protagonists.
4. It is one of Lee's literary features that, contrary to the old novels with the Woong-nye type women-protagonists as good characters, the characters are round-characters of the tiger-type.
5. It is remarkable that female characters of the tiger-type represent so-called New Women, and it can also be understood as a reflexion of the consciousness (and the characteristic) of the time.
6. The Woong-nye type women are Old Women (antagonists) and they suffer hardships and make their home their sole world. The tiger-type women, the New Women (Protagonists), regard home as a place of repression and conflicts and escape from it like tigers.
7. It is to the sea and darkness that the tiger-type women get coming out of their home. The sea and darkness symbolize death, which means that their attempt to escape from home cannot overcome the moral limit of the age. Here is revealed the tragic vision of the literary world of Lee Sun-Hee.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序言
• Ⅱ. 生涯와 作品
• Ⅲ. 人物의 葛藤構造와 비극적 비젼
• A. 人物의 三角構造
• 1. 三角構造와 神話
• 2. 女性人物의 두가지 原型
• B. 逃避와 放浪의 意味
• 1. 집안과 집밖―蕩子의 倫理
• 2. 어둠과 바다의 象徵―비극적 비젼
• Ⅳ. 結語