東皐 徐思選 詩文學의 空間 想像力과 意味 構造

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate spatial imagination in the poetic literature of Donggo Seo Sa-seon(1579-1650) and its semantic structure based on it. A preliminary study was first conducted to review his process of achieving study and his reading tendency. In his process of achieving study, he was much influenced by his elder cousin Seo Sa-won and Jeong Gu that moved to Sasudong in his latter days. It is especially noteworthy that he made a shift in his study methodology with the study of self-cultivation through Jeong Gu. He usually read Zhu Xi's books and widely covered Dongyu books such as Toigyejip, thus consolidating his academic base. He placed utmost importance on The Doctrine of the Mean, which seems to have played core roles in the formation of his ideology. Various types of spatial imagination are found in his poetic literature. Their good examples include Donggojeongsa, the Geumho River and its shore, Yeongyeong Lecture Hall, Gosan Village School, Soyujeong, and Anheung Buddhist Temple. In those places, he structurized his imagination with four concepts, which were ego, man, nature, and study. His major methodologies were ego's internal convergence and external expansion. Based on them, he sought after a peaceful mind with a satisfied attitude and ensured the full practice of academic socializing with nature with an emphasis on mutual relations between people. As a result, his viewpoint of the world based on the communication theory with a focus on ego and things became even more solid.