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The Method of Reading shown in Prologue and Epilogue deemed as Book Reporting Activities ― Focused on the Yeonam’s Prologue and Epilogue written on others’ Books

Cho Seong yoon 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the prologues and epilogues of classical Chinese literary works considering they are the results of reading activities, and to gain implications as to reading education today. The prologues and epilogues in the old days were closeed to make a book report rather than the definition of writing modern day prologues and epilogues since those activities were intended to a write for the author of a book after reading it. Against this backdrop, this paper has analyzed prologues and epilogues written by Yeonam Park Ji-won that feature new and unique content and style while showing universal characteristics, based on which three different methods of reading have been obtained. The study has found ‘self-motivated reading’ where a reader takes the lead and overwhelms the content of a book with a clear critical and subjective mindset, ‘reading of integrity’ that enables a reader to read a book with upright character and integrity beyond the boundary of knowledge with elements of integrity, including human nature(情), righteousness(正), and manners(禮) taken as the method of reading, and ‘reading as extended communications’ that allows a current reader to become a new writer and to seek communications with other potential readers. It indicates that these methods supplement the elements ignored by the existing reading methods presented in the official education curriculum and can expand to the scope of their application to cover the essence, direction and the attitude of reading as well as the method of reading.

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