East Asian Discourse and Korean Literature in Classical Chinese character (동아시아 담론과 한국 한문학)

Yoon JaeHwan (윤재환)

East Asian Discourse and Korean Literature in Classical Chinese character

The Research of the Korean Classic
2023, (61), pp.179-206
Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose
Received : April 20, 2023
Accepted : May 4, 2023
Published : May 31, 2023

Yoon JaeHwan ¹

¹단국대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

To define East Asia’s cultural identity as several specific cultural factors is to recognize East Asian culture as objects of ideas, ideals, imagination, and fiction, not as entities that exist. However, it is not right to deny the existence of East Asian universal culture and common culture because of the fact that East Asian culture cannot be explained by several specific factors. It can never be right to deny even the facts that exist not to see East Asia based on ideas and ideals. Literature in classical chinese character, one of the cultural elements of East Asia, is a literary style that began in China and spread throughout East Asia. Therefore, in order to approach East Asian literature in classical chinese character, a balanced perspective between the self and the other is necessary. This is the same in the case of Korean literature in classical chinese character, and accordingly, it is argued that East Asian literature in classical chinese character and Korean literature in classical chinese character should be viewed from a relative perspective, but the practical approach has not yet met this discourse. Researchers of Korean literature in classical chinese character believe that Korean literature in classical chinese character is a literature that emphasizes subjectivity while aiming for chineseization, and that it is a literature that has heterogeneity based on homogeneity with literature in classical chinese character in China and homogeneity based on heterogeneity with literature in classical chinese character in other regions, and aims to establish the status of Korean literature in classical chinese character in East Asia by revealing the contents of exchanges and communication through various contacts. However, these arguments still have many problems to be solved in that most of the leaders of mutual exchange and communication in East Asia do not have a decisive influence in the country’s politics, society, and culture, and the results of exchange and communication have generally resulted in a personal level. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of the status of Korean Literature in Classical Chinese Character in East Asia, it is necessary to reconsider the most essential part of East Asia and Korean Literature in Classical Chinese Character from now on.

KEYWORDS

East Asian discourse, cultural discourse, cultural identity, Literature in Classical Chinese Character, East Asian Literature in Classical Chinese Character, Korean Literature in Classical Chinese Character

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