卞榮晩의 文章觀과 自得의 논리

Abstract

Byeon, Yeong-man(1889～1954) is the last writer in the age of Korean literature in classical Chinese. He combined Korean literature in classical Chinese as a traditional style with modern ideas and opened up new path in literature. People praised him to write an excellent composition based on a classical style of Jin-Han(秦漢) or to write a vivid composition based on merits of prose of Ming-Ch’ing(明淸). He also said that only a classical style of Jin-Han was worth learning or conceded that literature of Dong-seong-pa(桐城派) attained its own stage. In other words, the view of a group of Jin-Han classical style(秦漢古文) and the view of a group of Sunjeong literary style(醇正古文) are mixed in his opinion. He presented his own standard in setting up a model of literature and so could not help taking or objecting an opinion of a specific school according to circumstances. He thought that the most important point in literature was self-acquirement. He maintained that, to write the best composition, every writer should acquire his own words pulled up from the inner world, and only this writing became a model of literature. From the view-point of literary impression, if a writer is faithful to his own circumstances, he can write a true composition and it can give universal impression to its readers.