<정목란전> 연구

Abstract

<Jeong Mok-lan Jeon> was made through Korean transformation according to the original grammar of the ancient novel on the basis of the story of Mongnan. Until now, the printed version of <Jeong Mok-lan Jeon> has only been known. However, the existence of a manuscript of Professor Yang Seung-min has been newly discovered. In this paper, I compared the two texts and examined the narrative characteristics of the works. Comparing the details, the two versions are entirely the same except for minor differences in notations and some expressions. Manuscripts are very likely to have copied the printed version. Therefore, unless another copy is found, we can only use the printed version as the reference at this time, but it seems that another manuscript preceded it. The story of Mok-lan matches the basic composition of a female hero novel familiar to domestic novel readers. In the course of the recreation using it naturally, cultural transformation was applied to narrative structure and contents. Constitutional characteristics of <Jeong Mok-lan Jeon> include the biennial structure of the male and female heroes, the structure of the male and female cohesion, and the heroic overcoming narrative of the heroine. In short, it has a female novel character with the main aim of accomplishment of individual affection and will to restore order of family. The heroine Mok-lan is presented as a normative human form embodying the dominant idea of ​​Confucianism. In other words, it is not an entity that should be subject to the domination and protection of the male, but an independent female act of self-judgment and action.