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The Subject and Others of Dispersion and Meeting Again in a War Historical Novel - Focused on ChoiCheok-Jeon(崔陟傳)·KimYoungCheol-Jeon(金英哲傳)·GangRo-Jeon(姜虜傳) -

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2008, 17(17), pp.53-84
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Minheui Lee 1

1아주대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims at defining peculiarity of a war historical-classic novel eg. ChoiCheok-Jeon(崔陟傳)】KimYoungCheol-Jeon(金英哲傳)】GangRo-Jeon(姜虜傳). Most of all, war historical novel is one of genres not only to show clearly the matter that the subject(主體) is influenced by others(他者) like a war(eg. Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592) or an irresistable force, but also to clear most definitely a distance between the subject and others. It is notable that others take an active hand to form the subject in these works. Here the subject means heroes or writer or contemporary ideal, a sense of values of those days etc. The other side, others means other things surrounding the subject. Hero and his family in above three war historical works experience to get scattered each other by war, and manage to meet again contingently. In this case, their dispersion and meeting again happen accidently on account of influence of numerous others(irresistable force, fortune, god's helping etc.) From the point of Choseon, it is easy for Japan or even China(which built by barbarian nation) to be recognized by others. But, above three works tell us that true identity means 'attitude or thinking which is able to accept the difference of others'. Therefore, basic perspective for dispersion and meeting again of hero as the subject in war historical novels is about how broad-minded mutual relation between the subject and others works. That is, one of topic of three war historical novels is related to love for humanity of a East Asian countries without any discrimination of nation. Three war historical novels are worthy of setting high value from a point of view that not nation but an ordinary person is created as the subject, and writer actually catches the process(=reality) of getting personal identity by others. Historical truth from a war historical novel is ultimately connected that becoming the subject due to others and self-rationality are able to descript through the relationship between dispersion and meeting again with open narrative structure.

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