@article{ART003378201},
author={Yoon Jia},
title={Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-},
journal={The Research of the Korean Classic},
issn={1226-3850},
year={2026},
number={74},
pages={219-251}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoon Jia
TI - Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-
JO - The Research of the Korean Classic
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 74
PB - The Research Of The Korean Classic
SP - 219
EP - 251
SN - 1226-3850
AB - This study examines how physical impairment is figured in classical Korean poetry across the transition of genres. Although scholarship on the “body” in classical Korean poetry has accumulated considerably, few studies have attended to the mode of figuration of physical impairment itself. This study therefore examines three genres: pyeong-sijo, saseol-sijo, and japga and changga. In pyeong-sijo, physical impairment fails to acquire concrete form and functions instead as a rhetorical device signifying emotional lack or worldly constraint, with the body remaining a vehicle for conveying ideas. In saseol-sijo, physical impairment becomes entangled with the textures of things and moves to the forefront of the text. When the body is presented not as a bearer of human meaning but as sheer materiality, the audience's senses are drawn toward a primal comic effect that precedes moral judgment. In the japga and changga of the early twentieth century, this material figuration gives way to another mode, in which physical impairment is reorganized into material for the popular amusement demanded by commercial performance. Here each work diverges, taking on different entertainment functions according to its medium and mode of enjoyment; at the same time, in the very place where the body loses its concrete form, the norms and hierarchies of normalcy that it had designated become all the more pronounced. This trajectory—by which the figuration of physical impairment shifts from rhetorical use to material foregrounding and then to popular amusement—demonstrates that the gaze through which premodern poetry treated the impaired body was never a singular one.
KW - physical impairment;figuration;pyeong-sijo;saseol-sijo;japga;changga;disability
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Yoon Jia. (2026). Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-. The Research of the Korean Classic, 74, 219-251.
Yoon Jia. 2026, "Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-", The Research of the Korean Classic, no.74, pp.219-251.
Yoon Jia "Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-" The Research of the Korean Classic 74 pp.219-251 (2026) : 219.
Yoon Jia. Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-. 2026; 74 : 219-251.
Yoon Jia. "Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-" The Research of the Korean Classic no.74(2026) : 219-251.
Yoon Jia. Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-. The Research of the Korean Classic, 74, 219-251.
Yoon Jia. Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-. The Research of the Korean Classic. 2026; 74 219-251.
Yoon Jia. Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-. 2026; 74 : 219-251.
Yoon Jia. "Modes of Representing ‘Physical Impairment’ in Classical Korean Poetry -Focusing on Sijo, Japga, and Changga-" The Research of the Korean Classic no.74(2026) : 219-251.
