18세기 여성 대상 애제문과 비지문을 통해 본 한문의 ‘문자적ㆍ구술적’ 포용성 - ‘한문/언문’과 ‘말/글’의 중첩과 포용의 맥락

Abstract

This paper investigates how woman paradoxically plays a role to make embrace non-script oral comments and enomun (Korean vernacular) into formal literary genre which were written with hanmun (Chinese letter) by the literati, mail-elites group, through analyzing over 900 texts of funeral oration and epitaph which were written for woman during the 18th Century Joseon. Mail elites get some opportunity to commemorate woman’s valuable personality and virtuous behavior by writing funeral orations for them. This makes some paradoxical facades; the first, male literati cite woman’s oral speaking as like exclamation, apostrophe, hyper-emotional expression, physical response and behavior, and proverbs, and sometimes translate their letters which were written in eonmun into hanmun. Second, the male writers quote the other male writers’ letters for woman family members which were written in enomun or hanmun. The third, the elite-writers include the lower status persons’ speaking as like those of servant, nanny, maid, and child, etc, because they were illiterate and could not record their own lives. This paper analyzed the funeral orations and epitaphs for woman were written by male literati because woman was forbidden to use script, especially hanmun during Joseon period, but ironically this historio-social context makes this literary forms flexible and complex script system in dimension of status, generation and gender. Through this analysis, this paper researches how the male-elite recognize the historio-social responsibility for woman-deceased and this moral emotion plays a role of embracing eonmun and oral speaking in hanmun as a complex script system.