홍석주의 지리적 상상력: ‘노정표’ 만드는 사람

Abstract

The late Choson period was an era when ‘Life on the road’ had been invigorated. A change of a lifestyle accompanies the change of individual’s mind. This study examined this change of individual’s mind from the aspect of alternation of spatial imagination, laying emphasis on Hong Suk-ju(洪奭周). Hong Suk-ju was select for several reasons. He was the one who experienced all kinds of possible actual journeys of his period. He was not only highly interested in travel and classic geography, but also a prolific writer in these fields. Hong Suk-ju's spatial imagination represented in his geographical works can be defined as "imagining the road." He left works on pioneering the pathway throughout Choson and even China. He expressed his aspiration to travel through those paths in his writings. Hong Suk-ju connected the eight provinces of Choson and the eighteen provinces of China by a path, which was centered in Han-yang(漢陽). His works show that former spatial imagination which perceived each place of cultural memory as a dot transformed into a linier spatial imaginationwhich links each existent place on the earth through the road. This transformation of spatial imagination led to transformation of aesthetic imagination. The linier spatial imagination which we can observe in Hong Suk-ju's case is the aggregation of Choson society’s experiences till the time. Thus, his imagination cannot be entirely attributed to himself. Furthermore, this inquiry mainly discussed the geographical works before the literature. Nevertheless, confirming that there was the change of geographic imagination behind the late Choson period’s literary imagination is the achievement of this study.