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Late-Joseon period novels' acceptance aspects of baihua(白話)

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2014, (29), pp.151-177
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : May 31, 2014

Kim, Soo Young 1

1서울시립대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the late-Joseon period novels' acceptance aspects of baihua(白話) through Hwang, Jung-yoon's Cheon-gun-gi(天君紀), Yi, Ok's Sim-saeng-jeon(沈生傳), and Yi, Hyeon-gi's Jang-su-gwa-jeon(張守果傳). First, Cheon-gun-gi accepted baihua partially using mainly pronouns and postpositional articles. Cheon-gun-gi’s baihua acceptance pattern was understood as resulting from the author Hwang, Jung-yoon reading the Chinese historical novels(演義小說) and creatively borrowing their various patterns. Sim-saeng-jeon accepted baihua using mainly two-character combined words. Sim-saeng-jeon's baihua acceptance pattern was understood as resulting from a significant limitation due to traditional Korean chuanchi novels(傳奇小說)' tradition and its genre norms. Furthermore, baihua, conversed in Sim-saeng-jeon, was understood as part of the author Yi, Ok's life-long pursuit for literary style experiments. In addition, Jang-su-gwa-jeon featured more baihua sentences than wenyan(文言), accepting baihua entirely. Its baihua acceptance pattern was understood as resulting from the author Yi, Hyeon-gi positively using the literary style of baihua novels such as Suhojeon(水滸傳) in order to exude the colloquial mood particular to yadamgye novels(野談系小說). The findings of this study on the late-Joseon period novels' acceptance of baihua are outlined as follows. First, late-Joseon novels' baihua acceptance continued from the first half of the 17th century to the 19th century. Second, late-Joseon novels' baihua acceptance was confirmed in all genres of historical novels, chuanchi novels, yadamgye novels. Third, late Joseon novels' baihua acceptance level was significantly influenced not only by authors' capabilities and characters, but also by the tradition and norms of various novel genres.

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