The Communication between Literature and Art through the Medium of Linguistic-Visual Literacy - focusing on the Interpretation of "A Crow's-eye-view Poem Number Four" -
Submitted by:
Ju Hyeong Park
Abstract:
This study aims to reveal the aspect of interaction between linguistic and visual literacy of learned readers in the process of interpreting Sang Lee’s poems and to suggest a way of integrated communication between literature education and art education.
Sang Lee was a representative modernist poet of Korea in the 1930s and introduced figurative elements to poetry. His avant-garde poems were ignored by readers of the day and only limitedly educated due to the complexity until recently. But these days they are reevaluated in a sense that they captured the real aspect of multi-layered modern colony in an original way. And their educational significance is also being newly recognized.
Sang Lee’s works suggest a problematic situation that cannot be explained just by language or just by visual image. Especially "A Crow's-eye-view Poem" series embodied the reality of modern colony by introducing the unique image, paradoxical language and image-text that was made through the arrangement of mathematical signs and visual inversion.
When approaching Sang Lee’s works just with linguistic literacy, learned readers cannot understand as something more than fragmentary meaning. On the other hand, when approaching his works just with visual literacy, they can neglect the awareness about the reality of modern colony. Through the interpretation that goes between linguistic and visual literacy, learned readers can find that such image and language shows the ambivalent awareness of the poet to be afraid of the modern order of the colony but want to overcome it.
Therefore, in order for learned readers to understand and internalize Sang Lee’s work, a convergent of literary education and art education is needed. Based on studies on the relationship between verbal and visual thinking, this study tried to show that the common language of literary education and art education such as 'viewpoint', 'form' and 'abstraction' would be a mediator of such convergence, and to show its utility in examining the interpretation report about Sang Lee’s "A Crow's-eye-view Poem" series of high school learned readers.
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