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A Study of the Creative Restructuring of Literature Text

Kim, Sung-Jin

대구대학교

Published: January 2007 · No. 30 · pp. 143-172

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20880/kler.2007..30.143

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Abstract

A Study of the Creative Restructuring of Literature TextKim, Sung-jinA metafiction is a fictional writing that exposes the status of the writer as an artificial being consciously in order to raise a question on the relation between fiction and reality. It can be defined as a style of novel that states the process of fiction creation while writing a fiction. The present study summarized the characteristics of 'An Isolated Room' by Shin Gyeongsook as follows:(1) selfconsciousness of the representationt of reality (2) narration strategy juxtaposing the past and the present; and (3) skepticism about the possibility of the ending of the story. This work shows the characteristics of a metafiction in that it is asking continuously how to represent the writer’s experiences while she was attending the night class of a commercial high school in the late 1970s and early 1980s and whether such representation is possible. This thesis specifically suggested ‘creative restructuring’ of literature text recommended in the 7th National Curriculums and the 2007 revised curriculums. In addition, it used ‘metafictionalization’ in order to distinguish it from ‘metafiction writing.’ Metafictionalization means that a reader transforms a work by integrating it with his impressions on the work. This study suggested the methods of Metafictionalization as follows:(1) a reader becomes a narrator and transforms the work; and (2) the reader compares fictional contexts and real contexts. After all, Metafictionalization is an approach to literary appreciation through literary representation rather than through writing the reader’s impression. Through this process, the reader can integrate reception and creation activities into one without the burden of writing his impression separately.
Keywords: 메타소설문학의 창조적 재구성작품 수용과 창작의 통합메타소설화신경숙의 ꡔ외딴 방ꡕ