This study purports to position Feuilleton as the subject of avant-garde in the history of German literatur and arts by clarifying the genre-aesthetic characteristics of Feuilleton that has been regarded as the estranged genre because it is located ar ...
This study purports to position Feuilleton as the subject of avant-garde in the history of German literatur and arts by clarifying the genre-aesthetic characteristics of Feuilleton that has been regarded as the estranged genre because it is located around major literature genres. Feuilleton is a mixed genre of literature and journalism and it indicates a newspaper article of 'small type' and also indicates the column of literary art or cultures of newspapers. This study started from the recognition of the fact that major local and Internet newspapers make facts into stories rather than convey and report the facts. This phenomenon that journalism becomes literature is not the recent tendency that occurred suddenly. In 1920s, German newspapers tended to make Feuilleton articles into literature. On the other hand, new journalism movement, which happended in 1960s and 1970s in the USA to escape from the mannerism of the existing report-centered newspaper medium, attempted to make journalism texts into literature. Paying attention to those phenomena, this study was conducted in association with the two great new tendencies in the history of journalism. As the literary methodology to clarify the phenomenon that journalism becomes literature, the analytic technique based on the arrangement of facts and fiction was supported. As a result, jourmalism becoming literature means that facts become narrative, that is, storytelling, and it was found that a writer's subjectiveness that becomes the foundation for the creation of a fiction takes the initiative in making journalism, an objective medium, become literature. However, in the history of the relation between literature and journalism, there was not only the phenomenon that journalism becomes literature. Literature's becoming journalism was made by Heinrich Heine in the first part of the 19th century. Therefore, this study examined journalism articles of prominent newspapers from the 18th century to the present when media environment was changed a lot, going through the 20th century, through which it clarified the dichotomous development of literature and journalism by Feuilleton in the context of political and literature history. In addition, this study selected some of local off-line and on-line journalism articles based on the standards for Feilleton genre-aesthetic values, and analyzed the tendency of journalism texts' becoming narratives. Narrative aesthetic characteristics - pointe, paradox, wit, irony, subjective introspection, subjective matters and fiction, psychological sketch of an accident, story-like dynamic setting of scenes, impressive sketch, associative-narrative connection, and fantastic technique - and the topic lists in which the spirit of the times is reflected compose the standards for the aesthetic artistic form of genre Feuilleton.