柳夢寅의 贈序類 散文 硏究

Abstract

Yoo Mong-in was one of highly valued writers during those days. However he hadn't been noticed from the academic world, even though his prosaic position was important in history. In this study, I analyzed his farewell prose in the point of the theme and the description. The reason why I noticed his farewell prose is that it took the most part of his prose and it showed originality. It surely helps to understand the author Yoo Mong-in. Basically as farewell prose is written to give somebody else, it is so much important to grasp about the recipient and the specific situation. Therefore I investigated the year which every writings were written and reordered the recipient and the specific situation about his all 87 farewell prose. I divided his farewell prose into following three groups according to the theme. Those are 'indignant about collapse of friendship', 'sympathize with adverse people' and 'allegoric satire about the ways of the world'. These kind of themes came from the writer's own experiences and situation. Because he lived in the period of party dispute, he had to undergo all sorts of hardships. Above three themes reflect well what he was in agony and concerned. In the point of description, Yoo Mong-in's farewell prose were dispute centered. He used ironical sentences and tried to vary stress in sentence. I believe such technics came from Han Yu(韓愈)'s. And his prose were assembled to the form of Zhuangzi(莊子), and the allegoric method of Zhanguoce(戰國策) and Guoyu(國語). He practically used such classical writings. From this I could confirm that his prosaic theory was mostly corresponded to his writings.