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A Study on the Motifs of Ideal Place including Alcohol, Dream and Crane in Songgang's Hansi

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2011, (28), pp.91-118
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

김진욱 1

1순천대학교

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ABSTRACT

A model of an ideal society may help the current society to develop soundly. An ideal place the intellects in Joseon sought can be a good resource for us to construct our future society. The intellect in Joseon established their own ideal place by reconstructing an experienced world and by the medium that helped them to escape. Songgang is one of the leading scholars, politicians and intellects of the time. It is meaningful to investigate his perception of ideal place in his literary works as a phase of Confucian scholars in Joseon who sought the ideal place. In turn, it may enable us to glance at the feature of ideal place that the contemporary intellect sought. This study examined the aspiration of Songgang on ideal place, and the medium for the escape. For this purpose, 573 Hansi in Seongjubon Songgangjib were analyzed, and particularly the role of alcohol, dream and crane which were some of the most frequently used resources in the works was analyzed. From the works in which Songgang intended to forget the agony of reality by drinking alcohol, this study figured out that Songgang pursued a world where no trouble existed. And through his dream, it proved that Songgang aspired to return to the most ideal world which he once experienced in the past. From the analysis of crane, this study proved that a crane was not a simple kind of creature, but an equivalent with Taoist hermit. This study also found out Songgang's ideal place to return was closely related with the reconstruction of Seongsan, an actual place in the world. Many Taoistic words in his ideal place were not derived from his in-depth scrutinization of Toism, but a simple counterpart of intuitive symbols against Taoist hermits. The ideal place of Songang was based both on abstractive concept on a Taoist world and on the life in Seongsan which he experienced on his own in the past.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.