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Social History of Forming the Rural SHIJO[田家時調] in Seoul and Gyeonggi Area in the 17-8th Century

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2006, (17), pp.103-130
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

Social History of Forming the Rural SHIJO[田家時調] in Seoul and Gyeonggi Area in the 17-8th Century The existing studies on the historical background of a rural SHIJO (a traditional Korean verse) overlook its regional characteristics. From the regional point of view, the rural SHIJOs are found across the country, but the importance of Seoul and Gyeonggi area is greater than that of other areas in terms of the number of works and writers. One of the major characteristics of the rural SHIJO in Seoul and Gyeonggi area is that its delineation focuses on the experience of independent farmers(自營農). It is a form of literature created based on the very concrete experience resulting from the cottage (BYEOLSE, 別墅) management. Under the delineations of the independent farmers and their experiences found in the rural SHIJO, there resided the power of Seoul, that is, a ‘center’. The rural SHIJO concentrates on depicting the naive sense of beauty and the rural world. SHIJO is full of romanticism, and all the independent farmers (main characters of SHIJO) exist in the romantic world called a “country”. This romantic space called as a ‘country’ is significantly different from the space of the independent farmers which local noblemen depict in poems or verses. The ‘country’ described in SHIJO exists in contrast with the Seoul which represents the culture, craving and worldly lives. At the same time, the ‘country’ also has the dualism, that is, it is ‘another Seoul in a different name’. The ‘country’ which the noblemen of Seoul described in the rural SHIJO refers to the cottage in Gyeonggi area, and this results from the fact that most of the cottages in Gyeonggi area resided at the riverside which had the developed ferries, or near a broad street which had the developed stations.

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