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The Circulation and Transmission of the Folk Tales of Chosunjok

Lim,Chul-Ho 1

1전주대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

It is usually thought that the folk tales of Chosunjok have no alteration in the process of transmission. The reason is that the folk tales have been handed down in the form of books. But in reality, there exist so many versions of the same tale. The alteration of the folk tales of Chosunjok is different from that of the oral folk tales of Chosunjok in the fact that the alteration of the folk tales is sometimes intentionally made by some specific authors. This phenomenon happens in the wrong concept that the folk tales of Chosunjok are not the stories written by individual authors but a part of the oral folk tales of Chosunjok people. As the folk tales of Chosunjok are the results of individual authors, not only the names of the reporters and the person who arranged the stories but also the bibliographical information of the books which the folk tales are contained should be published, too. The alteration of the folk tales of Chosunjok happens by many reasons: for example, the intentional intervention of the government, the publisher and the editor, such publishing circumstances as the limited pages, the change of social ideology and the recognition of the importance of the folk 【Abstracts】 290 제47집(2009. 8. 30) tales, and intentional alteration of the authors themselves. In the circulation and transmission of the folk tales of Chosunjok, great care should be taken not to change the names of the reporters and the persons who arranged the folk tales. Great attention should be paid not to change the names of the authors, too. That is the reason when a scholar determined to study the folk tales of Chosunjok, he should keep in mind the fact that there exist many variations of the same folk tale.

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