신소설에 나타난 ‘춘천’의 문학지리학적 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to consider the images and meanings of ‘Chuncheon’ shown in <Guiuisung(鬼의聲)> and <Soyangjeong(昭陽 亭)> in the literary-geographical perspective. In those two novels, Chuncheon is importantly described as a literary space. So far, however, there have been no discussions that pay attention to a space, Chuncheon shown in those works. Thus, this study considered what kind of relation would Chuncheon as a space in those two novel works show with the actual geographical space.
 Chuncheon is a city that is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and a river and lake are passing through this city in its west side.
 There is a eroded basin at the downstream confluence of the Bukhangang River, the Soyanggang River, and the Gongjicheon Stream.
 The river's horizontal movements and the mountain's vertical boundary creates a complex spatial image by dividing the space. Chuncheon's complicated geological characteristics like this are closely connected to 'Chuncheon' that was embodied as the literary space in <Guiuisung> and <Soyangjeong>. The works <Guiuisung> and <Soyangjeong> are not only importantly highlighting the space, Chuncheon, but also reminding of different images of Chuncheon.
 Therefore, the literary meaning of Chuncheon as a space is revealed better when those two works are examined together.
 In novels, Chuncheon has the images of rise and fall at the same time, and also has the spatial identity as a place with the overlapped nature of stopover for going to Seoul and returning, departure, and destination. And Chuncheon is the space with the existing order and ideology as it is from the pre-modern viewpoint, but it is also the space with the possibility of ontologistic introspection that obtained the depth of the descent from the modern viewpoint.