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A Study on the Rhetoric of Mythologic Features of Jilmajae Myths

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2005, (55), pp.353-374
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to assume that Seo Jeong Ju's Jilmasae Myths transforms the daily experiences of Jilmajae into myths, and so identify the inherent mechanism of mythologizing the experiences. If Jilmasae Myths was projected to attract the concern of readers and so, for this intention, Jilmasae Myths transformed the experiences in Jilmajae into myths, the mythological features can be the rhetorical devices to induce the sympathy of readers. The mythological features have the aspects of restoring the continuity through the regression to the origin, and embodying the totality of individual existence in the progress of overcoming the alienation and disintegration. By noticing that this tendency was also shown in the poetry which was published before Jilmasae Myths, this study identified the mechanism of making the mythological features of Jilmasae Myths. In the poetry which contained the life to live according to the circulating order of nature and sustain the traditional lifestyle, the tendency to regress to the origin was shown. And, in the poetry which treated the tendency to overcome the life of alienated and humble state and become a God, the tendency to restore the totality was revealed. This rhetorical device of mythological features reflected the desire to return to the integration state before the division of self-consciousness, and the desire to wish to make the humble self acknowledged by the others. The mythological features regarded as the features of Jilmasae Myths were the rhetorical device of Seo Jeong Ju's poetry, which was connected to the fundamental desire of human beings.

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