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The Weaving Technique of the Discourse and the Meaning of ‘Sipjangga’ in『Chunhyangjeon』 －Focused on Wanpan 84 sheets version of Yeoleochunhyangsujeolga

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2020, (49), pp.141-172
  • DOI : 10.20516/classic.2020.49.141
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose
  • Received : April 22, 2020
  • Accepted : May 17, 2020
  • Published : May 31, 2020

Lee Chae-Eun 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article analyzed the weaving technique of the discourse of ‘Sipjanga’, a scene of Chunhyang's punishment, which is one of the highlights in Chunhyang-jeon, and then revealed the functional meaning of it. ‘Sipjanga’, the essential part of Chunhyang-jeon provides an intense description of Chunhyang’s protest against unjust orders of a new magistrate, Byun Hakdo. It depicts scenes in which he orders Chunhyang to be flogged and she voices against him in a fit of rage; and it is a major part of ‘Sipjanga’. At this moment, Chunhyang's speech calls attention as it consists of a unique narrative format; when the commander flogs Chunhyang one by one, she repeatedly asserts her chastity and exposes the injustice of Byun’s compulsion by using the number of floggings as alliteration. This discourse of ‘Sipjanga’ unfolds amid the intersection of two axes of the reason: a metonymic combination of number-related words and a metaphorical choice of body-related concepts. The metonymic discourse method, which develops by using numbers, meets the narrative meaning of Chunhyang's resistance to the situation where the violence of Byun is inflicted; and the metaphorical discourse method, which seeks to understand the extreme pain of flogging and the psychology of that time from the perspective of the ‘body’, seems to be produced in a process of vertical inference hinged on Confucian reasoning systems or value orientation. As these two techniques of discourse intersect, ‘Sipjanga’ makes readers remember the narrative meaning for a long time, revealing Chunhyang's pain in the situation of punishment in objective figures, and at the same time, it makes easier to sympathize with Chunhyang and be immersed in the narrative, expressing her feelings through embodiment. For this reason, it is assumed that the unique technique of "Sipjanga," which maximizes the amusement of Chunhyang-jeon could have remained unchanged despite the variation in the content of many different versions. Therefore, this research is meaningful in that it attempts to explore the context of meaning through linguistic form and content, which has not been actively addressed in the previous study of Chunhyang-jeon.

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