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The relationship between gasa and pansori in the 18th century: Lee Un-young’s work Sunchangga

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2022, (49), pp.189-214
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : January 20, 2022
  • Accepted : February 22, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

SHIN, HYUN WOONG 1

1한국기술교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the relationship between gasa(歌辭) and pansori in the 18th century: Lee Un-young(李運永, 1722-1794)’s work Sunchangga(淳昌歌). He wrote Sunchangga(淳昌歌) at Sunchang-gun(淳昌郡) in Jeollabuk-do Province(全羅北道) around 1760 CE. The theme on the work is the lawsuit between the government employee, Choi Yoonjae and four gisaengs. First, judicial process in the work is deviated from the legalized trial proceedings of local government offices in the Joseon Dynasty. The anomalies of the procedure are caused by omission and modification of the procedure. As a result, the lawsuit in the work, which took place over time, is stated in Sunchangga as a song that took place in one place for a day. Second, due to the omission and modification of the litigation procedure during the work, statements about the development or scene of the case are minimized, and the case is presented against the utterance of the person in the work. In addition, scene-changing statements, which are mainly found in the drama style, were found with the ignition site fixed. Lastly, the characteristics of statements found in Chapter 3 were related to the customary genre of statements called pansori enjoyed in Honam(湖南) in the mid-18th century of the time. The part of the birthday party in Damyang(潭陽) and Gisaeng's excuses in the work show similar characteristics to the uniqueness of the part in pansori. In addition to these characteristics, considering the background of Damyang(潭陽) and Sunchang(淳昌), the sanctions of lawsuit of the lower class, and the comical and humorous aesthetics dealing with them, it is reasonable to infer that Sunchangga is in the middle of the 18th century. This means that the extension of the Gasa in Sunchangga was carried out in the recognition of the pansori singing the narrative or the equivalent style of song literature. As a result, among the six works created by Lee Un-young, the number of works influenced by performance literature, including songs, will be expanded from four to five.

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