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This paper examines the uniqueness and significance of <Jungheung Yugi(重興遊記)> as a landscape travelogue, viewing the characteristics of the portrayal of travel in <Jungheung Yugi(重興遊記)> by Yi Ok(李鈺, 1760–1812) of the late Joseon Dynasty as stemming from the manner in which objects and subjects are described. Travel was an experience in which the subject experienced and appreciated nature, emphasizing the subject of the journey. While most landscape travelogues from the early to the late Joseon period emphasized this subject-centeredness, Yi Ok's <Jungheung Yugi(重興遊記)> is seen as demonstrating a travel narrative focused on the subject. To this end, the paper first briefly examined the historical trends and characteristics of landscape travelogues during the Joseon Dynasty, and then analyzed the features of the travel experience narrative in <Jungheung Yugi(重興遊記)>, noting that it presents an experience centered on “objects and subjects” and adopts a method of “highlighting the subject through the minimization of interpretation.” I have analyzed the portrayal of travel in <Jungheung Yugi(重興遊記)> as a perspective that prioritizes the existence and individuality of the “object” itself—specifically, the “thing”—by emphasizing its phenomena and state, rather than a human-centered view that highlights the “subject” of the journey. By describing a travel experience as a “combination of things” itself, <Jungheung Yugi(重興遊記)> demonstrates Yi Ok's unique perspective on the relationship between the object and the subject, and can be considered a work that exhibits an attitude of placing the author, as the “subject,” behind the object and the other.

Yi Ok(李鈺, 1760∼1812), <Jungheung Yugi>, object, Bukhan Mountain, travel record, travelog

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