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On the Traditional Styles of Korean Composition

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2007, (63), pp.227-256
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The principles, methods, and deployments of Korean composition enter on various phases. The phases can be examined in terms of their transcriptions or literary styles. The present author discusses the "theoretical" phase of Korean composition which can be called the basic seed of stylistics. Several concepts and definitions of the theory of Korean composition are not contrary to one another but need be broken down into the two main categories of realism and allegory. Realism gives primacy to interpretation and description and develops original viewpoints and perspectives that do not imitate the logics of predecessors. Realist composition refers to the style of open-ended form and free expression that enables the vigorous nerves of sentence to undulate and encourages the detail description of contents. Realist composition deals with various subject matters but sets forth the main ideas or philosophy of Confucian scholars in the mode of straightforward logic and system, not in the mode of pretexts, inferences, or metaphoric expressions. The second category of allegory representsthe style of establishing fictional conditions or intentional observations in the first half of composition and forming in the second half new significations based on a conclusion inferred from an accidental situation. Allegorical composition usually chooses actual objects or phenomena in real life and recognizes or infers them in relation to other objects or phenomena. Allegorical composition develops ideas in an allegorical mode.

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