웹툰 〈도깨비 훈장〉에 나타난 고전서사의 현대적 변용

초록

This study analyzed the webtoon series Doggabi Teacher, particularly focusing on its storytelling pattern, which involves the acceptance and transformation of classical narratives. Based on various tales of Jeju, such as the tale of the Assistant Teacher, the webtoon series utilized its storytelling to elucidate the setting of the entire series, the relations among its characters, and the major duties of exploration. The author adopted convergent storytelling to combine elements of motifs from classical narrative and alter the older versions of these stories. It is cultural bricolage in the era of digital media and an interactive phenomenon that is inevitable it has inevitably changed storytelling. Inspired by the “relations between people and Doggabis” in the tale of the Assistant Teacher, the author has set the “magic” of adventures of the Assistant Teacher’s descendants and Doggabis as the background s of the entire series. Diverse classical narratives are combined with those of reality and placed at each stage to facilitate an explorative narrative, which involves moving up the stages to fulfill a duty to address communication and exchanges between the real world and the fantasy world. This manner of strategic storytelling earns the sympathy of digital natives who are accustomed to digital media. The interactive text acceptance of digital natives represents a process of reorganizing classical narratives as materials of webtoons in their own way to find the causes of events and the stories’ clues. As they make a voluntary inquiry into classical narratives, they consequently extend the life force of classical narratives by enjoying them as stories themselves and reinterpreting them as new stories.

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