| With a focus on how new literary authors collectively emerged and evolved during the 1920s, this dissertation examines the three major magazines in Korea at the time: Ch'angjo (Creation 1919-1921), Kaebyoˇk (The opening of the world 1920-26), and Chosoˇn mundan (The literary sphere of Korea 1924-27). These three magazines functioned as platforms where contributors came together, whether consciously so or not, to collaborate in indigenizing modern literary ideas from the West, crafting literary forms and skills, and creating their own literary principles and conceptions of the writer. Through examining the interactions between writers, ideas, and writing forms, this dissertation argues that the aforementioned magazines played a central role in the collective and prolific emergence of literary writers during the 1920s by fostering collaborative efforts that produced three distinctive types of writer---the creative author, the literary theoretician, and the reviewer of individual works, which in turn constituted a minimum structure of literary production. Overall, the shaping of the three types of writer demonstrates that it was magazines that produced creative authors, literary theoreticians, and reviewers, more than it was writers creating magazines during the formation of modern literature in Korea. |
