소설 읽기지도 방법의 모색(2) - 인물을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper explores efficient teaching methods for the proper reading of modern novel. As a sequel to the previous study focusing on events of a novel, it deals with Yi Chung-jun's short story “The Snow Road” in terms of character.A character is “existence” like a spacial element and it exists spacially within a text. The character demands not only psychological, ideological, and functional but also formal aspects for its proper reading and teaching. Characteristic elements, which illustrate a character, are signifi- cations that constitute paradigmatical-vertical meaning nexuses rather than the syntagmatical-horizontal. A reading of character requires a reader's special attention to “showing” narration. What are presented through characteristic elements are informations and features of characters that are perceived and reunified so as to embody a character. This embodiment also necessitates sensitive spirit, total comprehension of the text's structure, and knowledge on the macroscopic context of ideology and culture. Characterization varies its content according to main events and the function of the character.In summary, main activities of reading character consist of perception and reunification of informations and features of the character, alignment of function and relation, and comprehension of desire and conflict. The necessary methods for teaching “The Snow Road” are the imagining of “I's” life and psychology after the parting at the snow road, reasoning of desire of the mother, making of conflictual paradigm between the mother and “I,” concretizing of the wife's function, and determining of the subject and plot. The significant materials for reading and teaching the text are the first and last scenes, repetition of words like “roam” and “no debt,” the mother's living with wardrobe. the wife's activity. and the spacial element of the house.