柳宗元 遊記文에 나타난 情景融合의 과정과 특징 연구 - 永州八記를 중심으로 -

Abstract

A literati in Tang dynasty, Liu Zong Yuan was actively involved in political reform before being demoted to a lesser job in Yongzhou. Liu spent ten years there during which he wrote travelogues such as Yongzhoubaji, which demonstrate his acute appreciation of the landscape of Yongzhou. Liu's travelogues were not written at the beginning of his time at Yongzhou; they are the product of his time-consuming and increasing emotional involvement with the landscape of Yongzhou. In his early days at Yongzhou, the sense of displacement and isolation led Liu to see Yongzhou's wondrous landscape only as a prison or obstacle. He was hardly in an emotional state which would enable him to appreciate the landscape. On rare occasions when he was, he still used the landscape only as the emotional canvass on which he imprinted his subjective sentiments. As time passed on, however, Liu gradually came to realize the sublime beauty of Yongzhou's landscape. He first began with meticulously detailed descriptions of the landscape, and then fused these descriptions with his deeply felt emotions, thus creating a linguistic landscape in which the transcendental unity of the objective reality and the subjective feelings was miraculously achieved. The language he used was never overtly subjective and he was the master of indirection and subtle suggestiveness. In the end, his travelogues demonstrate the ideal of the transcendental unity of the subject and the object.