梁山璹傳의 비극성 연구 조선시대 상층영웅비극의 미학적 특성 파악을 위하여

Abstract

This writing aimed to explore sensibility to and recognition of tragedy of Joseon Dynasty noblemen in intellectual class, based on the classical literature Yangsansukjeon. Tragedy was formed in the tradition of western literature which has now been in use as an aesthetic concept holding universality. Accordingly, a study on a ‘tragedy’ stated in a western literature was reviewed to begin with, before dividing the tragedy of the Yangsansukjeon into a universal part and a special part, based on the study. The main point of tragedy discussed in a western literature, starting with facing with fear and shudder that existence retains, lies in realizing that one accepting an unavoidable fate due to a human’s ontological limitation can rather become a great existence exceeding the fate and the limitation. In this respect, the tragedy of the Yangsansukjeon also turned out to hold this characteristics. On the other hand, compared to the western tragedy with an individual characteristics, the Yangsansukjeon owned particularity that it reaches a tragic realization without separating individual from family and country. This is certainly the reflection of a medieval Korean literature in which dynamic cause and Confucian scholar’s ideology have settled as a universal ideology in both private and public spheres. It is expected that the performance attained so far would be helpful for specifying the recognition regarding the tragedy and aesthetic sensibility to the tragic literature of not only Korean, but also a medieval upper intellectual class.