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Kasa and Poetics of Attitude

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2008, (21), pp.27-56
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kim, DaeHaeng 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Although kasa has been known as the poetry of didactic genre, it should be regarded as the result of narrow observation to the factual subject matters and extended poetic style. This observation had insisted that the character of kasa is insisting through informing. However, as far as we have examined, most of kasa poetry works are expression of the mind, and it is confirmed in various types of kasa poetry. The fact that kasa is the expression of mind is accord with the definition of literature. In general, literature is defined as the expression of thoughts and emotions, and we can accept the kasa as the one type of literature not as document of recording in spite of the character of listing facts. Various expressions of mind can be categorized in the types of like or dislike, and favor or disfavor. These characters of kasa are agreed with the definitions of attitude. The comprehensive definition of attitude is 'a mental or neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence upon the individual's response to al objects and situations with which it is related.' Otherwise, the definition of attitude of emphasis on evaluation is 'a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor.' And a definition of emphasis on learning and consitency is 'a learned predisposition to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given object. An attitude is a single entity but that it has three aspects or components: affective, behavioral, and cognitive. An affective component refers to the feelings and emotions one has toward the object, a behavioral component consists of noe's action tendencies toward the object, and a cognitive component consists of ideas and beliefs that one has about the attitude object. On the base of the definitions of attitude we can recognize what basic nature of kasa is a poetics of attitude.

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