2009, Vol., No.19

Journal of Korean Literature 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.62

pISSN : 1598-2076
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kukmun

The 17th century is popularly known as ‘The age of novels’ in the history of Korean literature. There are many factors that opened and made this age of novels. The solidarity of others is one of them. However until now, this view point could not get much attention from the researchers of novels. Like the protagonists of a Chuanqi(傳奇) novel, Choichoek and Okyoung of Choicheokjeon(崔陟傳) meet and marriage. But after marriage, their life is driven to separation because of the war in 17th. In this situation, they come over the crisis by mutual concern of East Asian peoples. The monk Chunghe of Gangdomonyurok(江島夢遊錄) saw a group of ghosts in Ganghua island. The ghosts made up solidarity through speaking out their Han(恨, a mixed feeling of sorrow and regret ; unique to Korea.) They could criticize their fathers-in law, husbands or sons by the solidarity they had attained as ghosts. Woonyoungjeon(雲英傳) shows well how to overcome the order of Soosung palace, through the solidarity of court-ladies. This mutual subjectivity comes from the solidarity of others. No doubt, this kind of solidarity was never seen in the novels before 17th century.

A collected poems of Sachun consists of Sachunjang Palkyungdo(斜川庄八景圖), and many poetry whcich describe the Leekyungum's Sachunjang in Yangun. This thesis traced how Sachunjang became a noted place and outlined the culture of a country house in late Joseon. Lee started to manage Sachunjang in 1613 earlier than the commonly known time. The background of the management was first; the political disorder in Prince GwangHae's reign. Many politician retired and managed the country house. Many noble man cultivated the farm near the family tomb during the recovery from the war. Lee's Sachunjang was the one of largest farm near the family tomb in Gyeongi area. Second was economical income. Sachunjang was a manor which had large farm. One of Eight scenes showed the scale of the farm. Besides the political and economical reason, Leekyungum formulated the management of the farmstead thorough the cultural devices. First, he arranged the scenery near Sachun as Eight scenes. He made Leeshinhum paint Sachunjang Palkyungdo. Second, he meaned Sachun as a Doyeonmyeong's Kuykurea(歸去來). Because the name of Sachun could be linked with Doyeonmyeong's poetry, Yusachun. Third, he wrote Yusachun on the Sachunjang Palkyungdo and sent it to many scholars to receive the responding poetry. These process of making notable place shows the character of the newly build villa and manor in late Joseon. Also Leekyungum made Sachunjang as a place of the academic and cultural interchange. He invited many friends and held a poetry party. He collected ten thousand books and supported scientific research. Along the South Han river, there are Leesig(李植)'s Tagpungdang(澤風堂), Shinyigseong(申翊聖)'s Donghoi(東淮), and Kimsangheon's Seogsil(石室). Leekyungum's Sachun was the model of the manor of neighboring capital city.

Nakcheon-deungun is unique novel, so attracted the scholar's attention. But someone thought that this was translation of chinese novel. This study is on the uniqueness of the text, which has the both features of korean novels and chinese novels. Nakcheon-deungun has the foreignness; the manners and custom such as brothel and examination depicted in the text is not similar to that of Chosun and the our traditional novels, but similar to that of Ming or Qing and Ming or Qing novels. At the same time, Nakcheon-deungun has the affinity; The life story of Wang, the hero who had been fallen to the bottom of the social scale but at last regained his status and restored the reputation of his family, constructs the main frame of narrative. In addition, although based on the historical fact, the story was made up by fiction. Most of all, the red mark on the arm that shows the virginity of heroin is not found in the Ming or Qing novel but in the Chosun novel. This ambilaterality of the text have something to do with the defect of the text; the discrepancy of discourse and discordance of the chapter's titles. The text was knitted up by adoption and copying of preceding novel. So I inferred that ambilaterality of the text is from the intertextuality of the text, and the intertextuality of the text tells the socilal background of commercial production of novels. The spaces in the each paper that have the use of turning over leaves with wet finger also show the connections between the intertextuality and the commercial purpose.