얼뜨기잡기 팸플릿에서 드러나는 근대 초기 전업 작가의 작가 의식: 그린과 데커의 팸플릿을 중심으로 (The Authorial Consciousness of Robert Greene and Thomas Dekker as Professional Writers Examined through their Cony-Catching Pamphlets)

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초록

Cony-catching pamphlets, which were popular from 1550 to 1620 in England, are a literary subgenre where one can get a glimpse of early modern professional writers’ authorial consciousness working for the increasingly commercial print market. As pamphlets were thought to produce discourses ‘idle’ and ‘trifling’ as well as detrimental to the established hierarchical society, they were an easy target for social and moral attacks, especially due to their liminal position on the border between books and gossips. Cony-catching, covering a range of disreputable strategies used by rogues to infiltrate legitimate society, was a popular subject matter of many different discourses, including pamphlets, in early modern England because it was preoccupied with the instability from unprecedented social upheaval. Cony-catching can be said to be a perfect subject matter for pamphlets in the sense that the ignominious form of the pamphlet matches well with the equally disgraceful subject matter of cony-catching. The professional writers of cony-catching pamphlets, who wrote mainly for the print market, had to carve out their authorial positions distanced from the established but declining patronage system. Their representation of cony-catching gave them a chance to assert their authorial authority or reveal their edgy consciousness as professional writers because they were condemned similarly to cony-catchers in that they were also intent on gains through deceitful skills. Robert Greene and Thomas Dekker, the two most popular writers of cony-catching pamphlets, used their form and subject matter in different ways to make implications for their positions as professional writers in a changing literary production system. Robert Greene, who saw and embraced the potential of the emerging print market, tried to reach as big a readership as possible. He eventually proved to be very ambivalent and ambiguous without giving up either the morality a proper discourse was thought to provide or titillating pleasure of stories to attract a large audience. Thomas Dekker, with a heightened awareness of being a professional writer, rejected the veneer of morality in favor of a more worldly-wise, disrespectful, and self-referential witty style. However, Dekker’s writing is also full of ambiguity and internal conflicts, alerting his readers to interrogate and understand the subtleties of writing in his age.

영어초록

Cony-catching pamphlets, which were popular from 1550 to 1620 in England, are a literary subgenre where one can get a glimpse of early modern professional writers’ authorial consciousness working for the increasingly commercial print market. As pamphlets were thought to produce discourses ‘idle’ and ‘trifling’ as well as detrimental to the established hierarchical society, they were an easy target for social and moral attacks, especially due to their liminal position on the border between books and gossips. Cony-catching, covering a range of disreputable strategies used by rogues to infiltrate legitimate society, was a popular subject matter of many different discourses, including pamphlets, in early modern England because it was preoccupied with the instability from unprecedented social upheaval. Cony-catching can be said to be a perfect subject matter for pamphlets in the sense that the ignominious form of the pamphlet matches well with the equally disgraceful subject matter of cony-catching. The professional writers of cony-catching pamphlets, who wrote mainly for the print market, had to carve out their authorial positions distanced from the established but declining patronage system. Their representation of cony-catching gave them a chance to assert their authorial authority or reveal their edgy consciousness as professional writers because they were condemned similarly to cony-catchers in that they were also intent on gains through deceitful skills. Robert Greene and Thomas Dekker, the two most popular writers of cony-catching pamphlets, used their form and subject matter in different ways to make implications for their positions as professional writers in a changing literary production system. Robert Greene, who saw and embraced the potential of the emerging print market, tried to reach as big a readership as possible. He eventually proved to be very ambivalent and ambiguous without giving up either the morality a proper discourse was thought to provide or titillating pleasure of stories to attract a large audience. Thomas Dekker, with a heightened awareness of being a professional writer, rejected the veneer of morality in favor of a more worldly-wise, disrespectful, and self-referential witty style. However, Dekker’s writing is also full of ambiguity and internal conflicts, alerting his readers to interrogate and understand the subtleties of writing in his age.

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