서민가사의 담론기반과 미학적 특성

Abstract

The present study purposed to examine how and with what poetic principles and aesthetic characteristics a group of Gasas written by anonymous writers, which were called ‘popular Gasas(庶民歌辭)’ in the history of Korean literature, were developed on the basis of new discourse of different paradigm in that age. Based on the results, this study suggested that they should be called 'Gasas with civil-town's discourse' because many of these Gasas were neither written by ordinary people nor one-sidedly pursuing popularity but compre- hended both the cultural elements of the high class and folk culture of the low class at discourse spaces in cities and towns resulting from urban development and commercialization, breaking away from class distinction. Furthermore, this study proved that these types of Gasas based their discourse on the natural expression of human nature according to ‘Cheongiron(天機論):the theory of heavenly nature given to human beings’, the defense of poems in Korean, practical-realistic thoughts, secular tastes and the trend of popularization shared collectively. In addition, it examined the works of poetic principles including essential narration principles ‘the principle of enumeration’ and ‘the principle of guidance’ as well as the newly added ‘principle of interest.’ Furthermore, their specific patterns were examined in three stages, focused on the change of aesthetic characteristics.