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Reading Yeolnyeo Chunhyangsujeolga as Spatial Narrative - focusing on the part of Love Song and Farewell song -

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2015, (31), pp.247-274
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

손동국 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

Pansori novels share a distinctive qualification in discourse, which is distinguished from other traditional narrative body, such as the expansion of description part or full of verbal statements. Such qualification in discourse is closely related to the matter of time, from a point of view that Pansori novels are also descriptive narrative. Then, this unique management method of time suggests the need to regard Pansori novels as spatial narrative. The space dealt with in this research is a kind of a psychological space formed in inner consciousness of the characters of the play and readers as well. This is a different level of concept from the physical backgrounds and places of the story. It is common to have a parallel narrative structure in Pansori novels. Moreover, the novels often spend relatively too much time on description, providing only little information. These descriptive features contribute to vitalize spatial situations. This research deepens understanding on descriptive qualification in Pansori novels as it regards the one of the most representative Pansori novels, Yeolnyeo Chunhyangsujeolga, as spatial narrative. Especially the passage between Love Song and Farewell Song is a critical part. The spatial situation is highlighted here and furthermore, meaningful value or awareness intention of Pansori novels as spatial narrative is suggested. It is obviously found that temporal tension is weak if the passage between Love Song and Farewell Song is compared with before and behind of each song. With this, the space is vitalized. Readers are often provided time to spare psychologically, which allows the readers to assimilate to the characters of the story when the spaces are vitalized in general. However, from the realistic approach, Love Song and Farewell Song part are needed to be highlighted since it is difficult not only to take readers’ attention but also to engage emotion. It is because the description narrative, in which two main characters are falling in love with each other and realistic obstacles of difference in social position between Chunhyang and Mongyong is developed, is too abridged for readers to follow the main characters’ passionate love and sorrow. In this case, Pansori novels rather make the readers keep emotion that is formed by readers’ recognition based on each spaced narrative than persuade them through external logic verified by combination of narrative units.

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