A Study on Narrative Structure and Popularity of Korean Detective Narrative - Regarding to the Historical Concept and Applicable Scope of Detective Narrative -.
The final object of this study is to clarify its characteristic through an analysis ...
A Study on Narrative Structure and Popularity of Korean Detective Narrative - Regarding to the Historical Concept and Applicable Scope of Detective Narrative -.
The final object of this study is to clarify its characteristic through an analysis on the structure of Korean Detective Narrative that was created since from 1980s. And, based on the analyzed contents it intends to elucidate the narrative desire of populace which is accepting in mutually different form according to media. In order to accomplish such purpose, it requires to stipulate the concept of Detective Narrative before anything else and also must be set up obviously its applicable scope thereof. The Detective Narrative instituted as the research object in this study totally includes that of all narrative texts which are accepting or transforming of narrative characteristic of detective story. Accordingly, the Detective Narrative includes not only mystery story but also popular culture such as movie or cartoon. The reason which willing to observe on the Detective Narrative in this study is as followings: Firstly, it is able to overcome the viewpoint of the existing literature study that the popular culture had been excluded from a scholastic study field, through the research on the Detective Narrative. Secondly, the Detective Narrative can be a useful passage that is understandable the relationship between Narrative structure and popularity. Under such recognition, in chapter 2, at first the quest story and the Detective Narrative were compared each other based on Frye's discussion. Through this, the formative background of Detective Narrative in Western Europe was clarified, and it could be confirmed the peculiar characteristic of Korean Detective Narrative which classifies from that of Western Europe. The writers of Korean Detective Narrative, in differently from Western European detective stories, are more concerned in the question such as ‘How the crime was occurred (howdunit)’ or ‘Why the crime was occurred (whydunit)' rather than ‘Who is the Criminal (whodunit)’. As the matter of fact, such discriminative nature of Korean Detective Narrative becomes an important clue for achievement the target of this study. And, in chapter 3 and chapter 4, it has ever examined generally about argumentative problem point of Detective Narrative which should be solved prior to concrete text analysis. In chapter 3, it has quite paid attention to the relationship between narrative structure and popularity which are confirming at the detective story and metaphysical detective story since 1980s. In the texts at this age, the relationship between the said two is exposed as very complicated aspect. In chapter 4, as the Detective Narrative that appearing in mutually different format in accordance with media was examined, this is just the substance to be explained preponderantly in this study. Likely as explained at the modern popular culture theory, Popularity would be elucidated at the dimension of taste. Therefore, in order to comprehend the desire of masses reflected to Detective Narrative, it is certainly inevitable to discuss regarding to medium, the passage that supplying of taste. Even though this may be a brief analysis, the comparison and analysis on Novel <<DMZ>> and Movie <Joint Security Area, JSA> is a fairly good enough example that is able to show how the Detective Narrative is transformed by what form according to the media. Through such analysis, we could understand the characteristic of modern Detective Narrative and the peculiarity of medium at the same time. Detective Narrative is able to be free from the criticism named as a mere popular genre when it accepts the characteristic of medium substantially in the narrative dimension, and also able to reflect masses cultural taste of the same age, additionally.