전도현 (Do-Hyun Jeon)
2013한국학연구
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This 2013 study analyzed literary texts published in Korean modern journals from 1906 to 1945, finding peak publication numbers in the mid-1930s and notable genre-specific trends.
Abstract
This paper performed a statistical analysis of literature text published in Korean modern journal. A source book of this study is The survey and research of Literature Text on Korean Modern Journal(Seojungsihak). That contains list of literary works which appeared in national journal from 1906 until 1945. Concretely I analyzed the number of works classified according to period․genre․writer, component proportion ratio, and aspect of diachronic change. The results of the analysis is as follows. Literature text published in whole period of research object amounts to 50,939 works. The graph showing quantity variation is in the shape of steep mountains. And it peaked in the mid 1930s, especially in 1935 and 1936. In a quantity of literature text classified according to major genre, poetry is first, followed by essay, novel, literary criticism, play. And importance of modern poetry and novel increase highly since the first half of 1920s. In case of some subgenre, sijo(traditional three-verse Korean poem) and juvenile literature are in full flourish from the second half of 1920s to the first part of 1930s, whereas a translation shows high proportion in the second part of 1900s and the first half of 1920s. Meanwhile in whole period of research object, the entire writer who has published work in the Korean modern journal amounts to 11,285 persons. And if I make a guess active productive stratum of literary work based on the number of publishing work, it is estimated to around 1,000 persons. Diachronically the number of writer change suddenly in proportion to variation of the volume of literature, but average number of work per man is almost unchanged. When I analysis the number of writer by genre, the case of creating works in various genre almost amount to 3,000. This suggests that there are quite a few specialized writers who work in multiple genre.
Citation format
전도현. 한국 근대잡지 소재 문학텍스트에 대한 통계적 분석. 한국학연구, 2013: 131–159.