송강가사의 선본 재고

Abstract

This paper investigates the best version of Songgang kasa. The existing three wood block-printed versions of Songgang kasa have been studied earlier on, but it is yet to be clear which version is the best and how the versions affected one another. In this paper, I examined the differences among the versions from the linguistic and literary points of view. I also compared the postscripts of the versions and the compilers' ideas and corrected mistakes in the most well-known facsimile edition of the original. The version of Yi Seon is the earliest one from the linguistic point of view. I compared this version with the version of Seongju as well as the version of Kwanseo, and I verified the version of Yi Seon contains older linguistic forms. Both the versions of Seongju and Kwanseo present later linguistic forms such as palatalization, vowel rounding, and syllabication. The version of Yi Seon also has some greater significance in the light of its literary characteristics. It contains more natural forms and contents in phrases, words, and even in morphemes. Considering the linguistic and literary features as presented in this paper, the version of Yi Seon is the earliest and best among the three existing versions. It also contains higher possibility to be the primary version of Kwanseo, that is the version of Kwanbuk or the version of Uiseong; none of them exists today. Thus, the authority of the version of Yi Seon should be more clearly established.