수사학의 관점에서 본 항해 홍길주의 작문론

Abstract

This paper examines the writing theory of the Hanghai (沆瀣) Hong Giljoo (洪吉周), a writer of the Joseon era, from a rhetorical viewpoint. Hong Gil-joo, a representative of the late Joseon Dynasty, expresses his view on writing in his writings, revealing the characteristic aspect of Korean rhetoric. In this paper, I divided his theory of writing into two parts: inventio and dispositio, based on rhetoric theory. 沆瀣 claimed that in the invention area, where the subject is found, sentences containing ethics and virtue, sentences that impressed readers and evoked empathy, and sentences with their own viewpoints and perspectives are good sentences. In the disposition area, related to sentence and paragraph composition and arrangement, he emphasized that taking a unique composition apart from the formal restraint and evaluating the natural composition are ideal. The limit of this paper is in the examination of his writing theory with only a part of it, not considering all of its many parts, because there are so many Hong Gil-joo’s works. However, this paper is significant in its examination of Hong Gil-joo’s theory of writing from a rhetorical viewpoint to examine its present significance and to compare it with western rhetoric and expand the horizon of comparative rhetoric research. I expect that the universality and the uniqueness of the Korean rhetoric can be revealed more clearly when discussions progressing through the subsequent research are carried out.