A Study On The Writing Of The Silk Road In Modern Korean Novels

The Silk Road is not only a business and trade channel connecting ancient Asia and Europe,but also the East and West.It is also the artery and cradle of the exchange and development of human civilization.The Silk Road is a precious cultural heritage of mankind all over the world,and the crystallization of human economic and cultural exchanges and wisdom.In this paper,we selected representative writers of modern Korean literature such as Yoon Hu-myung,Cho Sung-ki,Yoon Dae-nyung,Bae Pyong-mo,and other authors of the Silk Road travel writing,which is based on the theory of comparative literary imagery,and at the same time,we use the words "Topopilia"put forward by Mr.Yi—Fu Tuan,a human geographer.The theory of Topopilia and Sartre's existentialism analyze the Silk Road writing in Korean modern novel,probe into the rich meaning of the Silk Road image in Korean modern novel,and probe into the historical significance of the Silk Road image in Korean modern literature,so as to better understand Korean modern novel's knowledge of the Silk Road and grasp the aesthetic pursuit of Korean literature.This thesis is divided into six chapters:The first chapter is an introduction.The first section is divided into three sections.The first section expounds the purpose and significance of this paper.The second section reviews the historical documents of the study and summarizes the achievements of the present study of the Silk Road in Korean modern novels.Section3 defines the scope of research and expounds the research methods used in this paper.This paper also expounds the important theories and concepts used in this paper,such as the Imagology of Comparative Literature,imagery,Topopilia,and existentialism.First of all,the Imagology of Comparative Literature was a branch of comparative literature born in the 1960s and 1970s.It studies the 'other' image,which is an exotic image in a work or literary phenomenon.The object of the Imagology of Comparative Literature is alien images in literary.works,but it does not require the historical fact and actual statistical data to verify the authenticity of these images,so that it refuses to recognize the original reproduction of these images and accepts the illusory nature of these images.the Imagology of Comparative Literature considers'others' as the sum of self's knowledge of 'others'.The Silk Road in Korean modern novels,which this paper studies,should be a product of the collective imagination of Koreans as it is described by modern Korean writers as 'others' in the Silk Road.To trace the cultural origins of both China and South Korea,the two countries belong to the same Confucian circle,so they have a natural affinity for the Silk Road,but after accepting the baptism of modern Western civilization,they have many modern elements in their eyes.Therefore,this paper takes advantage of the theory of Topopilia and the theoretical content of existentialism."Topopilia" is an important concept put forward by Yi-Fu Tuan,a Chinese-american cultural geographer,about people and places.According to Yi-Fu Tuan,the environment is not only a place for people's resources to seize and adapt to their needs,but also a place for human beings to build up in practice.The value and emotions of people are put into it.Humanities enrich the ecological condition of the landscape,and vice versa,the local landscape also enrich people's emotional experience.The author thinks that the writing of Korean modern novelists on the Silk Road embodies this "Topopilia",while the writers give the Silk Road a rich cultural meaning based on their own experience and show their yearning and love for the Silk Road.Therefore,based on the theory of the Imagology of Comparative,this paper analyzes a kind of aesthetic pursuit of Korean modern literature by using the concept of " Topopilia" in the humanities and geography.In addition,this paper analyzes the specific cultural meanings accepted by the Korean people based on the concept of images in comparative literature subjectology.Existenceism is one of the main schools of contemporary western philosophy.Existenceism centers on people and respects individuality and freedom.Existenceism was widely accepted by readers after Sartre's Existence and Nihility.Existentialist literature is a literary work embodying existentialist philosophy thought,and the classic work of existentialist literature is Camus's L'Etranger.Camus proposed "Absurd philosophy" through L'Etranger.As Korea produced some representative existentialist literature in the 1990s,existentialism became one of the main schools of contemporary Korean literature.But the existentialism in Korean literature is not exactly the same as Camus' existentialism and its "Absurd philosophy." It tends to be more humanistic and focuses more on the spiritual predicament of modern people.The fourth chapter of this paper focuses on analyzing the existentialist perspective highlighted by the writings of Korean writers Yoon Dae-nyung and Bae Pyong-mo on the Silk Road.The second chapter of the thesis is "Writing the Silk Road in Korean Modern Novels by establishing diplomatic relations between Korea and China." The first section looks back on the history of cultural exchanges between ancient China and Korea.The Silk Road is an important humanistic link between ancient China and the culture of the Korean Peninsula.Since the Western Han Dynasty,a large number of foreign cultural relics and Buddhist ideas have been introduced to the Korean Peninsula along the Silk Road.The second section expounds the relationship between China and South Korea's formal establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992 and the writing of the Silk Road in Korean modern novels.Before the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea,writers had to rely on imagination and historical materials to write on the Silk Road.After the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and China,writers can travel on the Silk Road and write on the Silk Road with their own personal experiences,which can reflect a more realistic and rich image of the Silk Road.The third chapter of the thesis is "The Silk Road Writing and the Consciousness of Finding the Root of the Silk Road in Korean Modern Novels."In the first section of this chapter,the author's vision and vision of the Silk Road are summarized in the series of Yoon Hoo-myung's works of the Silk Road.The ancient Silk Road was not only a road to economic and trade,but also a road for mutual reference of civilization and the spread of religion.Yoon Hoo-myung's series "The Silk Road Travel Writing" traces the transmission of civilization from the West to the Korean Peninsula from various aspects,including Buddhism,music and culture,and explains that the West is not only a sacred place of religious culture,but also a symbol of the Korean people's search for roots.In addition,in Yoon Hoo-myung's series of novels,the Silk Road,as a destination for modern people or a powerful everlasting spiritual force,inspires people to overcome difficulties and transcend survival difficulties.The second section expounds the mystical images of Dunhuang culture in Cho Sung-ki's Dance of Dunhuang.Visitors to Dunhuang,a Buddhist holy place marked by a rich and profound religious culture,experience the art of Dunhuang frescoes,experience the vitality of Buddhist culture and purify the soul.The fourth chapter of the thesis is "The Silk Road Writing and Existenceism in Korean Modern Fiction." The first section of this chapter describes the double symbolism of the space of the Silk Road 'desert' in the the Desert of Piano and the Lilies by Yoon Dae-nyung under the existentialist vision.Through the deep implication of the desert,the author shows the modern Koreans' acceptance of the post-capitalist social progress and the material life of the post-capitalist era as well as the gradual loss of freedom and the increasingly weary spirit of the modern people.The second section expounds the two-dimensional image writing pattern of natural space and human space in the Silk Road,which is dominated by 'deserts' and 'grassland' in Bae Pyong-mo's Ship to the Sky,and expounds the spiritual confusion of modern people,though materially rich and spiritually barren.It shows how this kind of trauma can be cured in natural spaces such as'deserts' and 'grassland'.The fifth chapter of the dissertation is "The Historical Meaning of Silk Road Writing in Korean Modern Novels." The first section explains that the Silk Road Korean literature has opened up a completely new field of literary expression.Since the advent of Yoon Hoo-myung's first novel,Dunhuang's Love,in the 1980s,many works on the Silk Road have appeared in modern Korean novels,and have shown their unique characteristics,adding a new atmosphere to Korean modern literature.The second section summarizes writers' different imaginations and perceptions of the Silk Road,summarizes the diverse meanings contained in the Silk Road in Korean modern novels,and summarizes the history of cultural exchange between China and Korea through the Silk Road from ancient times to modern times.The Silk Road is the crystallization of human economic and cultural exchange and wisdom.The cultural exchange of the Silk Road has been accumulating for more than 2,000 years,leaving behind rich material resources.The sixth chapter is the conclusion.The conclusion section mainly deals with the context of the article and summarizes and summarizes the content of the paper.The Silk Road in Korean modern novels is a spiritual image of 'Utopia'and 'Paradise.' It is a spiritual home far from urban civilization,the last paradise of idealism,and a beautiful world on the other side of the river.The principle of the Silk Road's pluralistic and dignified communication can provide historical reference and enlightenment for the present-day China's relations with South Korea.