19세기 축적적 문학담론과 李世輔 時調의 작시법

Abstract

This is an essay to explain the principles of prolificacy in sijo writing of Gyeongpyeonggun(慶平君) Lee Se‐bo(李世輔) who lived the age of accumulative literary discourses in the 19th century and is counted as the most prolific sijo writer in Korean poetry history. Lee Se‐bo left 7 kinds of sijo collection, and among them, 『Pung-a(風雅)(大)』(1862) was analyzed in this study, which contains 422 out of 463 sijos written by Lee Se-bo. The edition of Punga shows the serial order of the 422 works, and the serial order is the result of: first, the large number of stanza sijos or series sijos; second, regrouping of relevant sijos according to theme at the time of edition; third, the creation of new works at the time of edition. What made this possible was Lee Se-bo’s ‘ability in serial writing,’ and the ability in serial writing is believed to have worked as ‘ability in prolific writing,’ which enabled him to create 463 sijos. Lee Se-bo’s ability in serial writing means that he was fully familiarized with sijo expressions through association with literati in that age of accumulative literary discourse and had abilities to use the expressions actively. His ability in prolific writing is suggested by the fact that he wrote sijos very easily, namely, most of his sijos were the literary variations of expression and form that utilized literary discourses accumulated abundantly since the previous age. Lee Se-bo’s sijo prosody is very characteristic in that it weaves customary expressions from existing literary discourses and individual expressions accumulated in the world of Lee Se-bo’s personal experiences. Customary expressions and individual expressions are interwoven with each other in his works, but depending on which is prevalent, they produce two different aesthetic feelings. After all, his sijos have the aesthetics of both seriousness and lightness, and the aesthetics originates from this prosodic principle of weaving individual expressions as well as customary expressions.