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The Working Process for the New Midang Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition -Focusing on Autobiography from the 6th and 7th Volumes of the ‘Midang Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition Compiled by Eunhaengnamu-

Noh, Hong-Ju 1 Yun, Jae-Woong 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The 『Midang Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition』 compiled by Eunhangnamu is designed in celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Midang Seo Jeong-ju. It is the third complete edition following the 『Complete Edition of Seo Jeong-ju Literature』(1972) published by Iljisa and the 『Corpus of Midang Poetry 』(1983·1991·1994) and 『Midang Autobiography』(1994) published by Minumsa. Starting with the five-volumed complete edition in June 2015, two volumes of autobiography were published in February 2016. The aim of this study is to examine the processes of confirming the originals of the 6th volume titled ‘Childhood Autobiography’ of the 『Midaong Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition』 compiled by Eunhangnamu and the 7th volume titled ‘Literary Autobiography’ of the 『Midang Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition』. This article analyzed the problems of the existing texts of Midaong Seo Jeong-ju autobiography and established the process of confirming the original of new Seo Jeong-ju autobiography, in the light of the social and cultural context, the author and readers. It is obvious that the works for the new complete edition require a fierce inquiry on the printed versions for confirmation of the original, not a direct transcription of types from the old one and must be based on a delicate consideration between the author’s expression and readers’ acceptance. The 6th volume titled ‘Childhood Autobiography’ of the 『Midaong Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition』 published by Eunhangnamu and the 7th volume titled ‘Literary Autobiography’ of the 『Midang Seo Jeong-ju Complete Edition』 are the most advanced and sincerest texts, which complement the problems of the existing printed versions, from the perspective of academic history and publication culture. The settlement process of this autobiography deserves to be remembered as an important example of an edition research, since it reveals a variety of problems to pay attention to, for settlement of complete editions of Korean literary writers.

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