인공지능 시대 고전여성문학 연구의 방향과 사회적 실천

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This paper explores how generative artificial intelligence and the digital technological environment can transform the conditions of research and modes of social practice in the field of classical Korean women's literature. Moving beyond the binary debate over whether AI replaces humanistic inquiry, the study approaches the digital environment from a media-oriented perspective, examining it as an intermediary for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Three dimensions of changing research conditions are discussed. First, the paper examines how AI-based optical character recognition and digital archives expand access to classical manuscripts and reconfigure the range of questions and methodologies available to researchers. Second, it considers how quantitative analytical methods such as topic modeling, along with dialogic exploration through generative AI, broaden the horizons of literary analysis. Third, it discusses how models that reconstruct historical linguistic environments — such as TimeCapsule LLMs — can serve as tools for making visible the linguistic and epistemological distance between past and present. With regard to social practice, the paper develops its argument along the axes of public humanities and education. It examines how generative AI enables research outcomes to be recast in multilayered media formats and facilitates bidirectional communication with broader publics, while also exploring the possibilities of citizen-participatory knowledge production and collaborative archive construction. Drawing on classroom case studies, the paper demonstrates that students can develop into active agents capable of critically reinterpreting classical women's literary texts. Furthermore, it proposes that classical women's literary studies can contribute to the development of AI by offering critical perspectives on training data bias and providing resources for the reconstruction of historical linguistic contexts. Rather than reducing the relationship between AI and humanistic research to either technological determinism or skepticism, this paper understands it as a relationship of mutual intervention, in which researchers and technology continuously co-adjust and reshape the conditions of inquiry.

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