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A study on the cultural significance of Korean classical mystery tales: Inference as cognitive imagination

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2020, (51), pp.319-350
  • DOI : 10.20516/classic.2020.51.319
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose
  • Received : October 15, 2020
  • Accepted : November 11, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Hwang In Soon 1

1인천대학교 인문학연구소

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ABSTRACT

This article aims to analyze Korean written folktales based on the concept of mystery and investigate the cultural meaning of inference. There are two reasons to investigate the cognition of a mystery tale. First, mystery is a reconstitution of the past using abduction reasoning, which is similar to the imagination. It signifies how mystery tales restructure the past and present the possibility of the future through inference. Second, the process of inference is to find the implication of the system model to which the subject is oriented. It intends to analyze how the idealized cognitive model interacts with imagination and cognition in mystery. The folktale is a literary genre in which stacked cultural codes are the most unfiltered, it is therefore considered to be the most effective genres for accessing the cultural significations of mystery. The tendency toward conservative subject characteristics and the context of judgment can be regarded as a limitation. However, the object of mystery tales not only achieves the understanding of a case but also reconstitutes the past through repeated reinterpretation. Therefore, the reconstruction of the past represented in the mystery tale itself becomes an open view that presents future possibilities.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.