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The Structure of Lee Jeong-jik's Composition Theory

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2004, (52), pp.87-117
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

This essay is designed to study the composition theory of Suck-jeong Lee, Jeong-jik. Lee was a Confucian scholar in the late Choson Kingdom, who inherited the school of Han-koo-jeong-mack and got it established in South-west province of Korea. Exploring the way of writing good sentences, he accepted the method of ancient composition and tried to build a system of his own composition theory. He started to think over the fundamental question of what the literature is, and tried to find out how to write literature. In short, he endeavored to build up a wide-ranging system of composition theory. Suck-jeong considered that humanity and justice, the sources of literary sentences, should be manifested in a composition to make it an ideal one. His argument on ‘form and spirit’ was also his theory of art which could be applied to poetry, paintings and writings. Form and spirit meant the external body and the internal contents of an object of writing. He argued that both form and spirit should be completed and existed in balance one and the other. A high discernment was, in his opinion, necessarily needed to reach a good standard of composition. One should attain a good discernment to write a better sentence. Discernment could be naturally accomplished in the process of breeding up mind and filling up spirit. Suck-jeong presented ‘principle and law’ as a guideline of composition. He regarded a composition based on principle and law as a model of sentence, developed them as a principle of composition and applied them to analysing sentences.

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