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Consideration of the Chanonggu Series by Lee Hyoungsang

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2013, (27), pp.125-155
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : May 31, 2013

Kim Jinhee 1

1아주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article investigated the characteristics of the Chanonggu series in Jiryoungrok volume 6 by Lee Hyoungsang. The Chanonggu series borrowed Kang Heemaeng's Nonggu, which was one of the most popular poems in Lee Hyoungsang's time. However, the Chanonggu series did not only imitate an existing famous work but also contained their own characteristics through the modification of the classical work. In this series, Lee Hyoungsang reorganized the chapters of the original text and created a different structure from it. He also modified the contents of the original text, intensifying didactic parts and diversifying literary features. Such modifications enabled the Chanonggu series to reflect the author's social circumstances, when the edification of people was more urgent in the deteriorating situation of rural areas. With these formal and content characteristics, the Chanonggu series could also make an influence on Nonggawollyoungga, an important poetic work of the late Joseon era. In conclusion, the Chanonggu series was not a mere imitation of a classical poem but a meaningful work that contained timeliness as well as literary value, achieving a certain status in Korean literary history.

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