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The prominent aspect of 17th century thoughts is the assertion on the independence of Mind(心). Three tendencies form their shapes as the results: first, the presupposition of psychological reality; second, the exteriority of moral judgment; third, the totality of Mind. To recover Mind's essence, one must exclude the artificial elements. Experience of Nature(山水) is the main method to confirm the Mind itself. Mind is grasped as an outward movement but with no norms, and the movement is defined as the Taste(趣向). The taste proposes the collective subject, and it distinguishes the choices of such subject in everyday life. Whereas the Nature transcends the everyday life, the Taste appreciates the everyday life. However, once everyday life is filtered by any Taste, it turns out to be not natural nor routine. As long as the Taste is connected with Mind, such a dilemma is problematic. The scholars who study the Taste of 17the century should notice it.

Issues in the study on forms of the possession of Gasa in the late chosun Jeong, In-sook This paper aims to summarize issues in the study on a possession of Gasa, and to examine some parts to be insufficient. Specifically this paper aims to highlight the existence of GachangGasa that is a group of Gasa in the late chosun. Generally there are three forms in the possession of Gasa, gachang, umyoung, wandok. Gachang is a form of singing to an accompaniment of instruments, umyoung is a form of recitement to a simple melody, wandok is a form of reading based on the metrical rhythm without the melody. According to the preceding study, there are some opinions of change in the form of a possession of Gasa. The first opinion is thet the character of gachang is losing in the late Chosun. And the second opinion is that oral character in Gasa is rather intensified in the late Chosun. The third opinion is that affirming two opinions transcription of Gasa should be taken a serious view, and the fourth opinion is that the presentation of Gasa is naturaaly umyoung but it can be changed to gachang or Iwandok. This final opinion is most appropriate however it should be examined again the side of SibiGasa is only included in the area of GachangGasa. The present study attempts to investigate the changes in characteristics of the Gasa genre in the late chosun. It has been indicated that, with a reciprocal influence with the Yoehang·Sijeong cultural area, the characteristic of the Gasa genre began to alter from the period before and after 18th century. One direction among changes notified in the present study is that Gasa underwent a change getting close to a Jabga style since it was being sung in the Yoehang·Sijeong cultural area. So another group of Gasa, for example "Wonbusa", should be also included in the area of GachangGasa. And in the future the existence of this group of Gasa should be more examined.

The issues and the future prospect of the relationships between Korean classical novels and women Lee, Jee-Ha Recently researches focused on women have been developed in the area of Korean classical novels. The researches have been progressed on a few ways below. 1. Investigation into the possibility about existence of women authors 2. Extraction of women's consciousness 3. Research about the characteristic of women's novels The researches on the women and novels have been made good progress through this process. However it should be thoughtfully considered subjects below. 1. Consideration about classification of novels related with women 2. Extraction of unbiassed women's consciousness 3. Prudence of generalization of relationships between women's consciousness and modernity 4. Subdivision of subjects about women's novels

An Issue of Method in Oral Literature Researches Sim, woo-jang Researches of Oral Literature are increased very much in quantity, but at a stand-still in quality. Causes of it can be searched in many aspect, but I think that there is an important cause in the negligence of method. Specially method is the first essential in oral literary study. But it is hard to find a notable interest in method at recent researches. It is due to doing not exist of issues in researches. Structuralism played an important part in bringing out many literary characters of oral literature. But recently it is criticized because it cannot bring oral literature's distinct characters into relief, that is to say 'orality'. Performance-centered approach or field-contextual study was started as a criticism of structuralism. But it is criticized because it doesn't have a firm theoretical base. That is, field work is not field-contextual study. Semiotic theory was also started as a criticism of structuralism. But it has difficulty in describing the latent dynamic structure of oral literature. Recently, the comparative method is brought to the fore. But it is criticised because it is not based on the complete understanding of cultural context. And I don't think that feminism is rewarded with good fruits based on the theoretical interest. Contemporary oral literature study is the same. It is criticised because it is not based on the theoretical consideration about the recent information-oriented society. In conclusion, these many methods does not play the role effectively. I think that it must be mere satisfied with territorial expansion of oral literature. The heart of these questions at issue is 'orality'. Therefore, I think that we must develope the methods that can show efficiently the distinct orality of oral literature.

A Contributor to Newspapers in the 1900s, Sin-Sodang申蕭堂 Lee, Kyung-ha As a case of women's reading and writing, I focused in a literary life of Sin-Sodang(申蕭堂), who had contributed to several newspapers six times in 1898 to 1909. She was an active woman who eagerly participated with the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement in 1905～1910, leading women's organizations such as Jinmyeong-buinhye(진명부인회) and establishing a school. Looking into her genealogy, I found a few important information about her private life. She was born in 1853 or 1869 and died in 1930. She was a second wife of the upper class statesman and had four sons. I doubt she had been a concubine before her marriage. Her contribution on November 5, 1898 in Jeguk-sinmun(제국신문) was the first that women's writing was published in a readers column in modern newspapers. In that contribution, Sin-Sodang announced her opinion about political affairs, when the late Choseon Dynasty was like a chaos politically at that time. The six contributions to newspapers seemed to be her another practice of the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement. It was an important event in women's literary history that women readers like Sin-Sodang had begun announcing their opinion in public by readers columns in the 1900s.

On Two Works of Gasa가사 Written by Chae Heon채헌 Park, Yee-Jeong Chae Heon채헌(1716-1795) is the poet, who wrote and enjoyed poems and songs as Jaejisajok재지 사족 in Mungyeong문경. He wrote two works of Gasa가사, Seokmunjeonggugokdoga석문정구곡도가 and Seokmunjeongga석문정가, and eight works of Sijo시조 related to the summerhouse, Seokmunjeong석문정, built in 1787. The aim of this thesis is to find out the reason that he wrote two works of Gasa about Seokmunjeong. The comparison of two works can help us to achieve this purpose. As a result, Seokmunjeonggugokdoga is focused on the flow from the trace of his master and ancestors to his present and Seokmunjeongga is focused on himself as the host of Seokmunjeong. We can find the extension of self-perception in the former, the firming of self-perception in the latter. In other words, these two works can be said two voices of the poet. One was sung outside and the other was sung inside. By comparing with other Jaejisajok재지 사족 poets, who wrote one or two works of poetry, he deserves attention because of his many works and archives, Seokmunjeongillok석문정일록, Seokmunjeongsimjindongyulok석문정심진동유록, Seokmunjeongchanghwalok석문정창화록, Seokmunjeongjeyeong석문정제영, and etc. In the case of Seokmunjeonggugokdoga, it shows the advent of Gasa in the genealogy of Gugokga구곡가 written by Korean. This suggests the existence aspect of Gugokga in a large way. Two works of Gasa, which are treated in this thesis, raise a new issue, because they suggest the existence of Gadan, which treated Gasa as a main genre.

The comparative study of Okwonjaehapkiyeon and Wanwolhoemaengyeon Han, Gil-yeon Okwon and Wanwol have very similar structure, but have many different points that give shape to this structure. Especially these two works show serious differences in the political troubles. First of all, two works show many differences in the point of the basis of family. In Okwon the family can't achieve influence, but in Wanwol the family wield power by the blood relations and so on. In Okwon the hero's family has the only son through three generations, but in Wanwol the family build up the most huge family among river novels. In the next place, ups and downs of political life come up in according to the different basis of family. Thirdly, two works have deep difference in the point of background of age and setting up of antagonistic family. Okwon describes up the political inferiors in origin with shabby and miserable family, but Wanwol figures up the political superiors in origin with the upper classes and prosperous family. Trough these comparison the discussion was possible that one of these two works was created in cope with another work, namely counterwork of another work.

A Study on the Origin of "Imgyoungup chun" Park, Jae-min This paper aimed at fixing the earliest version of "Imgyoungup chun" and guessing its original form by relating the version owned by Yonsei University with the version published at the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Recently Cho Heewoong, Chung Byoungsul, and Kwon Duhwan presented in series the research on the Amenomori's Korean studying. These research showed me that "Imgyoungup chun" existed in the age of Amenomori and made me reason that it affected on the version which was published in 1881 at the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The version of Yonsei University, which is the earliest version published in 1780, is similar to the version published at the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs though these two versions had never affected each other directly. Putting these things together, I asserted that the two versions were formed independently in the same period and were most similar to the original form of "Imgyoungup chun". I thought the discord between the colophon of the Yonsei University version and the time when Amenomori was dead is caused by the fact that the colophon is related to the time the text was engraved, not the time it was formed. 'Kyoung-gi press', which is noted just behind the colophon, made this hypothesis possible.