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A Metonymical Reading of 'Tapsang' in 'Samgukyusa'

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2007, 0(16), pp.293-320
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

Yeyoung Yoon 1

1서강대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

A Metonymical Reading of 'Tapsang' in 'Samgukyusa' Yoon, Yae-Young In this study, I had searched for the emplotement of historioghraphy and the perspective of historiographer in ‘Tapsang’ in ‘Samkuyusa’. It can be worked out with metonymical reading. At first, We need some paraphrase of whole text. And then, they could make some sequences; A pagoda and an image of Budda come from the space and the time of the Sacred → Men respond to the call of the Sacred → the Sacred respond to the men's preyer → A pagoda and an image of Budda are wasted and disapeared. We can find out of some story from theses series of sequences: The pagoda and the image of Budda that had the origin and power of the sacred go far away. And this story cannot be constructed by reading separately the stories of ‘Tapsang’. This story can be named of ‘the falling of the history of Sacred’. Then, what can explain the tragic perspective of this historiographer? We can find some narration about that karma of Budda is reduced. The historiographer see the karma of Budda not the logic of the mythos and the circular but the logic of cause and effect that have a relation with vernacular history of human. It is closer to the tragic perspective rather than the expect of the revival or lasting of the history of the Sacred.

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