Self Cultivation through Reading of Classics -A Case of Reading Korean Classical Literature-

Hyosup Song

This article aims to show how we have to read Korean Classical Literature in order to cultivate ourselves. Especially, calling into the question about the allegorical communication hitherto having dominated the reading of Korean Classical Literature, I suggests the poetic communication as an alternative method of reading. By classifying the reading of Classics as literal reading, receptive reading and reflexive reading, and interpreting them as Peircean Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness respectively, I show that they construct the signifying process that is called semiosis. It means that they exist not by themselves in respect but exist as actual progressive stages in the act of reading. While the allegorical communication, where sender, receiver and context become transcendental origin, raises only the receptive reading, the poetic communication, where signification happens by diverse interactions among every elements participating in communication, raises the reflexive reading. In this article, I focus on the mythologization and the demythologization that came from these two readings, and make clear that, for self-cultivation through reading Korean Classical Literature, myths that came from receptive reading have to be demythologized by reflexive reading in poetic communication.

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