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The Form and the Voice of Dogang-Gogabu-sa

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2010, (26), pp.303-335
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Chung Kil Soo 1

1조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

Jung Yak-yong丁若鏞(1762∼1836)'s Dogang-Gogabu-sa道康瞽家婦詞(A Woman married to a blind man) is a representative short narrative poem in Sino-Korean in the late Chosun. I tried to analyze the form and the descriptive method of short narrative poetry in Sino-Korean focusing on this masterpiece. First, I confirmed that short narrative poetry in Sino-Korean had the three parts, which are the beginning part, the middle narrative part, and the last part. In the course of comparing the beginning part of Dogang-Gogabu-sa and other narrative poetry created before it, I extracted some features of narrative poetry: the creation of typical characters, the pithy description of a scene, and the characteristic reproduction of characters' activities and incidents, which is not mimetic reproduction. Comparing the last parts of those, I discovered the different directions of ‘final voice’. Analyzing the voice of Dogang-Gogabu-sa, I searched the interpenetration of voices and the role change of narrator/scene-narrator/character. As a result, I concluded that Dogang-Gogabu-sa was the magnum opus in that constructing scenes through the overlapping of voice showed a high level of creative skill.

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