고려 전·중기 한문산문의 창작 실제와 이제현의 고문창도

Abstract

The time of sino-Korean literature in mid-Goryeo period is when ‘byunchae(騈體)’ was completely transitioned to ‘sanchae(散體)’ in style. It is when literature transitioned from being practical statements for public use and started to be created as proses that reflect individual characteristics. However, due to the common academic view that sees Lee Je-hyun advocating for classical style prose, the mid-Goryeo period is defined as the “dreary period’ when the classical style prose did not flourish. This study reviews the issues that arise if Lee Je-hyun had advocated for writing classical style prose and studied the cases where the literary style of Tang and Song was practiced in sino-Korean literature. First, this study asserts that the keyword ‘Neo-Confucianism(性理學)’ is more appropriate for defining the transition of literature in the later Goryeo period or its characteristics because it is reasonably applied in philosophy, literature, and etc., not ‘prose’, which is overly applied with the historical concept. Grouping Han-yu’s Classic Chinese Prose Movement(古文運動) and Lee Je-hyun’s advocation for writing classical style prose creates the gap of five hundred years. Also, this study discusses that applying the flow and standards of Chinese prose to the history of Korean prose will result in ignoring the spontaneity or creative ability of the recipient. Secondly, this study reveals that the literary style of Tang and Song was actually seen in the creative writing in the early to mid-Goryeo period. The writers in the early to mid-Goryeo period clearly recognized the existence of the Eight masters in Tang and Song(唐宋八大家). The proses at the time transitioned from byunchae(騈體) to sanchae(散體), which shows the characteristic of the literary style of Tang and Song, and the writers wrote in styles that represent the literary style of Tong and Song , such as songso(送序), seol(說), non(論), sansuyugi(山水遊記), and gajeon(假傳). Also, the writing techniques of Han-yu(韓愈), Liu Zongyuan(柳宗元), Su Zhe(蘇轍), and Wang Anshi(王安石) were found in letters, memorial inscriptions(墓誌銘), and sansuyugi(山水遊記) of Park Moon(朴文), Lim Chun(林椿), and Lee Kyu-bo(李奎報) It can be summarized that the history of Chinese prose in Goryeo Dynasty accepted the literary style of Tang and Song in the early Goryeo period, and the literary style was settled and established in mid-Goryeo period, then in later Goryeo period, the proses with the Neo-Confucius philosophy were written, opening the door of the Neo-Confucius writing era, which continued on for about five hundred years. However, if it is viewed that Lee Je-hyun had advocated for writing classical style prose, it disrupts such flow. In order to find the right place of the history of Chines prose in Goryeo Dynasty, the theory of ‘Lee Je-hyun’s advocacy for writing classical prose’ must be discarded. In other words, Lee Je-hyun’s advocation for writing classical prose is only valid among the ‘league of Neo-Confucian scholars.’