The objective of this article is to verify how the literature ofmodern enlightenment period can be applied in the field of literature education, based on examination on the form of enlightenment and enlightenmentity which are the core character of literature in modern enlightenment period and on examination on the characteristics of literature in modern enlightenment period as the literature in transition period.
modern enlightenment period was a period of enlightenment and this made the form of enlightenment as the basic form of the literature in that period. narrative literature in modern enlightenment period can be divided into four categories- amoebaean style, debating style, orating style and describing style-by style of discuss. amoebaean style and orating style, which are characteristic style of literature in modern enlightenment period, discuss about subjects which already have their answers, therefore those are closed forms. debating style of the modern enlightenment period is not about how people reaches to the answer by debating, but about how people confirm the already chosen answer. in this sense, debating style of literature in modern enlightenment period also was closed form. ‘structure of relationship of teacher and student’, which is the basic form of [무정], is a collection of those closed discusses. These kinds of closed forms blocks the subjects from self-reflection from the beginning.
Narrative literature in modern enlightenment period can be divided into four categories-amoebaean style, debating style, orating style and describing style-by style of discuss. amoebaean style and orating style, which are characteristic style of literature in modern enlightenment period, discuss about subjects which already have their answers, therefore those are closed forms. debating style of the modern enlightenment period is not about how people reaches to the answer by debating, but about how people confirm the already chosen answer. in this sense, debating style of literature in modern enlightenment period also was closed form. ‘structure of relationship of teacher and student’, which is the basic form of [무정], is a collection of those closed discusses.
On the basement of the literature in modern enlightenment period was the dichotomy. this dichotomy divides ‘pre-modernity/modernity’ and also divides ‘nihilation of the past/for-take of the future’. These kinds of dichotomy is closely connected to the fact that the heroes of ‘혈의 누’ and ‘무정’ are orphans. Authors lived modern enlightenment period saw the world through the window of dichotomy, dividing ‘pre-modernity/modernity’ and dividing ‘nihilation of the past/for-take of the future’. and made their opinions in accordance with that dichotomy. “those kinds of dichotomy codes like beauty/ugly, truth/false, good/evil was, in some sense, a tool to express creativity” and in the other sense it was a result of despair from the fact that people of modern enlightenment period could not find any lesson or legacy from the past and the older generation.
As we far examined, literature in modern enlightenment period can be understood in several ways. by applying what we have examined literature education can be more intensified and extended.