@article{ART003271753},
author={Park Yeongmin},
title={Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa},
journal={The Research of the Korean Classic},
issn={1226-3850},
year={2025},
number={71},
pages={141-184}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park Yeongmin
TI - Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa
JO - The Research of the Korean Classic
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 71
PB - The Research Of The Korean Classic
SP - 141
EP - 184
SN - 1226-3850
AB - This paper is an exploratory study examining whether affect research, which has been active in Korea since the 2010s, can contribute to re-reading sijo and gasa. Affect theory rejects the transcendental dualism of mind and body, and focuses on the body that transforms while giving and receiving influences in relationships. Affect is a concept that evokes the intensity of encounters, unstoppable tension, the agency of the body, and the indeterminacy of life, distinguished from emotion, which selectively activates and fixes affect based on experience, memory, thought, and habit.
The analysis of Hunminga reveals that Songgang Jeong Cheol reproduced and shared with the people of Gangwon Province bodies in relationships, such as children respecting elders, farmers helping each other, and relatives caring for one another. This was a strategy to induce synchronization among bodies through affective contagion and form a sense of community. However, it has limitations in that the orientation was restricted by Confucian ethics, failing to fully capture the infinite potentiality and indeterminacy of affect.
Dendongeohmihwajeon-ga deals with the affective events experienced by a young widow within the social bonds of hwajeon-nori (flower pancake outing). The pre-conscious state of tension expressed through tears and mucus vividly reproduces the collision of relationships. However, as Dendong mother's experience is reconstructed into the code of 'chastity-right/remarriage-wrong,' the young widow's affect is suppressed and her future is forced into unhappiness. Through the logic of homogenization, the ideology prohibiting remarriage operates, revealing the problem that fixed norms are prioritized over the indeterminacy of affect.
The analysis of Saseol-sijo captured aspects where the body moves before consciousness and transformations according to relationships. While previous studies interpreted Saseol-sijo with limited logic based on dichotomous codes such as 'pre-modern/modern,' 'yangban/commoner,' and 'male/female,' this study raises the need to focus on the dynamism of relationships and the indeterminacy of affect.
In conclusion, this study emphasizes that while emotional reading is based on fixed notions that seal off transition and variation, affective reading affirms the potentiality for infinite transformation and seeks what lies beyond system and order. Through this, the study aims to provide an opportunity to re-read sijo and gasa and explore clues for new readings.
KW - Affect;affective reading;Hunminga(訓民歌);Dendongeohmihwajeon-ga;Saseol-sijo(辭說時調)
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Park Yeongmin. (2025). Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa. The Research of the Korean Classic, 71, 141-184.
Park Yeongmin. 2025, "Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa", The Research of the Korean Classic, no.71, pp.141-184.
Park Yeongmin "Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa" The Research of the Korean Classic 71 pp.141-184 (2025) : 141.
Park Yeongmin. Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa. 2025; 71 : 141-184.
Park Yeongmin. "Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa" The Research of the Korean Classic no.71(2025) : 141-184.
Park Yeongmin. Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa. The Research of the Korean Classic, 71, 141-184.
Park Yeongmin. Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa. The Research of the Korean Classic. 2025; 71 141-184.
Park Yeongmin. Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa. 2025; 71 : 141-184.
Park Yeongmin. "Affective Reading and Continuous Rewriting of Sijo and Gasa" The Research of the Korean Classic no.71(2025) : 141-184.
