1950년대 장덕조 소설에 나타난 연애와 결혼 ― 『多情도 病이련가』를 중심으로 (About Love and Marriage in the 1950s Novels written by Jang, Deok-jo : Focusing on “Too Sweet To Be”)

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초록

The purpose of this paper is to find out how to gain popularity and the
underlying feminine consciousness by examining the representative love
story of the 1950s written by Jang, Deok-jo “Too Sweet To Be”. First, this
novel leaves room for popularity by using a complicated but loose grammar
of a romance novel. The subject of conflicts in an intricate love triangle is
women. Conflicts among male characters are not serious or even
nonexistent, while women seem to internalize conflicts as their fate. The
failure to diversify conflicts and the readily sublimation of an eternal love
into patriarchal ideology shown here can be described as both major
characteristics and limits of popular novels. Second, this novel puts the
post-war pleasure-seeking culture and the newly-emerged love culture into
context. The rapidly growing pleasure-seeking culture during the post-war
period turns places like coffee houses, clubs and hotels into a place for sex.
With the appearance of modern women, discriminatory gender ideology gains
more ground, leading to a punitive dicourse on the infidelity of women
during this period. In addition, the love culture of this time is replayed
through the watching of theaters, concerts and American movies. The
hierarchy in the tastes implies the changing relationships among characters,
while the west-centralism exercises great influence here. Even if this can be a feature of a romance novel, the gender ideology and the
western-centralism constructed by the writer pose some problems. Third,
this novel displays the changes in marriage custom after the war by putting
together the mixture of the old and new custom for marriage and
remarriage. Female characters are at the forefront of facing the conflicts
caused by these changes, but they also show the ability to deal with those
conflicts as love sufferers, while adding more values to traditional norms.
This conclusion is nothing but an indication of their agreement to the
patriarchal ideology. “Too Sweet To Be” by Jang, Deok-jo tries to explain
the post-war bipolarization and the chaotic value system due to conflicting
old and new values through women's troubles for marriage. Female
characters who aspire to have a new take-off through love are frustrated by
traditional female dicourse, but the writer faces up squarely to the social
reality and the patriarchal ideology and puts them together in a romantic
way. This seems to be the main reason why Jang, Deok-jo, who led the
female discourse at that time, could establish herself as one of the most
popular female novelists of the day.

영어초록

The purpose of this paper is to find out how to gain popularity and the
underlying feminine consciousness by examining the representative love
story of the 1950s written by Jang, Deok-jo “Too Sweet To Be”. First, this
novel leaves room for popularity by using a complicated but loose grammar
of a romance novel. The subject of conflicts in an intricate love triangle is
women. Conflicts among male characters are not serious or even
nonexistent, while women seem to internalize conflicts as their fate. The
failure to diversify conflicts and the readily sublimation of an eternal love
into patriarchal ideology shown here can be described as both major
characteristics and limits of popular novels. Second, this novel puts the
post-war pleasure-seeking culture and the newly-emerged love culture into
context. The rapidly growing pleasure-seeking culture during the post-war
period turns places like coffee houses, clubs and hotels into a place for sex.
With the appearance of modern women, discriminatory gender ideology gains
more ground, leading to a punitive dicourse on the infidelity of women
during this period. In addition, the love culture of this time is replayed
through the watching of theaters, concerts and American movies. The
hierarchy in the tastes implies the changing relationships among characters,
while the west-centralism exercises great influence here. Even if this can be a feature of a romance novel, the gender ideology and the
western-centralism constructed by the writer pose some problems. Third,
this novel displays the changes in marriage custom after the war by putting
together the mixture of the old and new custom for marriage and
remarriage. Female characters are at the forefront of facing the conflicts
caused by these changes, but they also show the ability to deal with those
conflicts as love sufferers, while adding more values to traditional norms.
This conclusion is nothing but an indication of their agreement to the
patriarchal ideology. “Too Sweet To Be” by Jang, Deok-jo tries to explain
the post-war bipolarization and the chaotic value system due to conflicting
old and new values through women's troubles for marriage. Female
characters who aspire to have a new take-off through love are frustrated by
traditional female dicourse, but the writer faces up squarely to the social
reality and the patriarchal ideology and puts them together in a romantic
way. This seems to be the main reason why Jang, Deok-jo, who led the
female discourse at that time, could establish herself as one of the most
popular female novelists of the day.

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