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A Study on Pansori with Focus on Yonggung Feast

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2012, (26), pp.49-74
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

Seo, Youseok 1

1한라대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to examine the epic meaning of the Yonggung (undersea palace of dragon king) feast as a different world as described in the Pansori epic chant. At the Yonggung feast, the beings of Yonggung and visitors to the palace from a different world meet each other. Unlike the existing epic literature, notably, biological novels or dream-based novels, the Pansori Yonggung feast does not create a momentum for beings from different worlds to be united. Rather, the feast serves as a momentum to confirm their identities as different beings from different worlds and to seek a new life. Depending on how real the Yonggung is, there is a difference in communication possibility between the Yonggung and the real world. There is no possibility that the Yonggung feast, similar to the real world, can communicate with the real world. Such Yonggung feast not only bares the contradiction of the real world for those who experience the Yonggung, but also confirms that there is no longer an ideal world. However, the Yonggung feast, which is not real, shows the possibility of communicating with the real world. This is because those with an experience in the Yonggung can be consoled about their real-world hardships through the Yonggung feast, and can further recognize a new life direction and possibility.

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