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The Characteristics of Chunhyang and its Meanings in Chunhyang-sinseol, Namchang Chunhyang-ga, and Ikbu-jeon -focused on the social stratum of the authors-

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2019, (39), pp.97-125
  • DOI : 10.52723/JKL.39.097
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : March 31, 2019
  • Accepted : May 10, 2019
  • Published : May 31, 2019

Kim Ji Yoon 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is aimed to confirm the hypothesis that Chunhyang-sinseol(春香新說), Namchang(男唱) Chunhyang-ga(春香歌), and Ikbu-jeon(益夫傳) were written by the authors who belonged to the middle class in the country districts, so there were some commonness of Chunhyang(春香) character in these works. From the confirm, I drew the following conclusion on Chunhyang(春香) character in these works. 1. Chunhyang was educated pursuant to the Confucian standard. She was the partner of Yidoryeong(李道令), not his wife since they were not legally married. However, she followed almost all the marriage proceeding. 2. Chunhyang was characterized by her practice of Confucian ethics, so she was regarded as the traditional faithful wife. 3. With the practice of Confucian ethics, Chunhyang asserted that there should not be the discrimination on the grounds of social status and class. And this assert reflected the consciousness of the middle class in the country districts, who promoted the upward social mobility with the practice of ethics. In short, according to their class consciousness the middle class in the country districts understood Chunhyang and described her.

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