18세기 人物志 형식 筆記의 출현배경 연구 - 『左溪裒譚』과 『幷世才彦錄』을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines the background and significance of the Pilgi specializing in character centering in the end of the 18th century in the tradition of the Figures' biographies and Pilgi. In the mid-Joseon Dynasty, a number of figures appeared in the 200 years since the Imjin War and Manchu invasion. Thus, the demand for comment and order on the history and characters of the 17th and 18th centuries spread naturally. Also, in the 18th century, writing became increasingly differentiated, specialized, and integrated. In the second half of the 18th century, the writing style of the character style such as 『Jwagyebudam』 and 『Byungsejaeunrok』 was newly emerged due to the demands of the times that need to sort out the aspects of becoming differentiated and specialized in writing history and the arrangement of the characters. This was related to the contemporary and egalitarian perceptions of the time, and influenced the emergence of commoner’s biography. In the premodern period, the collections of the Korean figures’ biographies were recorded by historians at the state level such as "Samguksagi" and "Goryeosa" biographies. When it comes to the late Joseon Dynasty, they were sorted or collected as a Bijijeonjang(碑誌傳狀) such as “Inmulgo(人物考)”. Compared to this, a kind of writing, "Character’s journal(人物志)" appeared in a personal creation in the latter half of the 18th century, It was built by authors' voluntary motivation without external demands or formal constraints. It was written according to the viewpoint of the authors thoroughly in the selection of recorded persons and the manner of recording. This means that it is a free recording style of writing. It also shows the character of writing more clearly in that it contains a lot of anecdotes and poetic contents in terms of contents.