문학과 이론, 그리고 비평적 읽기에 대한 ‘시차적 관점’ (A Parallax View on Literature, Theory, and Critical Reading)

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초록

What I want to argue in this essay is to trace back to the origin of the relationship between philosophy and literature and its influence to literary and artistic criticism. I consult with Benjamin, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, and Ranciére, further Paik Nak-chung, in order to come up with the resolution for the problem of the separation between theory and criticism todays. The purpose is to prove the fact that literature always already presupposes the theoretical perspective in the sense that it has an aim to produce knowledge on the object. In this way, literary approach to the object reveals the similarity to the observation in natural science, yet it could be distinctive by the fact that its knowledge produced by the similar way is based on self-judgement: in short, the knowledge is self-knowledge which seems to be the absolute. My discussion leads to investigating the concept of National Literature suggested by Paik―its theoretical challenge towards “art for art” ideology which, unlike the Western context, was well confirmed with authoritarian power in Korean history. A parallax view on the relations between literature and theory is nothing other than the critical reading as the political, by which a reader as a critic gives rise to the new category of knowledge on the objectivity. In this sense, the difference among literature, theory and criticism are the very place in which the new vison of literary criticism would come to exist in its own right.

영어초록

What I want to argue in this essay is to trace back to the origin of the relationship between philosophy and literature and its influence to literary and artistic criticism. I consult with Benjamin, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, and Ranciére, further Paik Nak-chung, in order to come up with the resolution for the problem of the separation between theory and criticism todays. The purpose is to prove the fact that literature always already presupposes the theoretical perspective in the sense that it has an aim to produce knowledge on the object. In this way, literary approach to the object reveals the similarity to the observation in natural science, yet it could be distinctive by the fact that its knowledge produced by the similar way is based on self-judgement: in short, the knowledge is self-knowledge which seems to be the absolute. My discussion leads to investigating the concept of National Literature suggested by Paik―its theoretical challenge towards “art for art” ideology which, unlike the Western context, was well confirmed with authoritarian power in Korean history. A parallax view on the relations between literature and theory is nothing other than the critical reading as the political, by which a reader as a critic gives rise to the new category of knowledge on the objectivity. In this sense, the difference among literature, theory and criticism are the very place in which the new vison of literary criticism would come to exist in its own right.

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