허수경의 시와 산문에 내포된 고아성과 연대성 연구

Abstract

This study would understand the meaning of orphanhood by analyzing how the poetic self’s self-recognition is defined in Heo Soo-Kyung’s poems, using Richard Rorty’s concept of liberal ironist, reveal the poetic intention implied in the representation of others, the subjects of solidarity and their voice of testimony and examine the complex characteristic and taste of her poetry through the gap and intersection point between these two axes.
 A liberal ironist refers to a person who would come up with new metaphors for self-creation, pays attention to others’ pain and seeks the possibility of solidarity through redescription. This study extracted ‘self-creation,’ ‘metaphor,’ ‘pain and humiliation,’ ‘imagination,’ and ‘redescription (oblivion and memory)’ as keywords that put Rorty’s discussions and Heo Soo-Kyung’s works together and utilized them as the tools to read Heo Soo-Kyung’s world of poetry.
 For Heo Soo-Kyung, existential and poetic ethicality lie at the point where her image as an ironist who would express her inner world through a new metaphor and her image as a liberalist who gazes at and internalizes pain and humiliation cross. In other words, it is judged that her responsibility as a poet that she should remember and redescribe others’ situations and painful emotions with her poetic imagination and metaphor led to the solid construction of Heo Soo-Kyung’s world of poetry.