『만인보』의 인물 호명과 서사 진술 방식 연구

Abstract

In this article, based on Maninbo, we examined the method of mentioning characters and narration statement, regarding “the speaker with the viewpoint of the poet” without separating the author from the speaker. The greatest effect of mentioning one’s occupation or position is the reversal. It turned out that readers was able to obtain advance information of a character through the occupation or position in front of the character’s name and then the lexical meaning had a ironical effect in many cases. In case of calling a character his or her nickname, its advantage is that they can reveal a vein of humor of the character and deliver the condensed narration of the character economically. Next, we studied the methods of narration statement. As a result, we could categorized them as the way of narrating events without comment, the way that the speaker comments on the events and the way of commenting through a character. In the way of narrating events without comment, the speaker merely keeps an objective record of events and he does not try intervening in the events or making omniscient comment. It has an advantage of guaranteeing the diversity. In the way that the speaker comments on the events, diversity is eliminated, however, its merit is that the direction of statement in the text reveals the clarity, condenses the narration and enables you to assume the speaker’s view of the world. The benefit of the way of commenting through a character is that the texture of the character’s statement is very doctrinaire. Although the author tried not delivering the message rigidly by using his own narration, it is apprehended that Maninbo might be analyzed with a rigid view in terms that the message itself is instructive.