서사민요 <맏딸애기노래>의 구조적 특징과 그 미학

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to present the structural characteristics and aesthetic meaning of a type of narrative folk song which in this thesis is referred to as <Maddalaeginore>. The <Maddalaeginorae> are defined as folk ballads about ‘Maddalaegi’ which contain the lyric or title ‘Maddalaegi’ in each case. The Maddalaeginore are found throughout Korea, especially in Kyungpook Province. There are 73 versions of <Maddalaeginorae> from all over the country, not including other songs which have the same story. All versions of this type of folk song have the same structure: the deficiency of a Subject(主體)'s desire and its solution. These reflect people's strong consciousness about overcoming suffering. In this thesis the <Maddalaeginorae> have been sub-divided into three types, “A Type (Yearning Type)”, “B Type (Temptation & Curse Type)" and “C Type(Suffering Type)”. “A Type(Yearning Type)” is all about yearning for a meeting with ‘Maddalaegi’. Its characteristics include “Maddalaegi as an object, which is becoming otherness(他者化)”, “verbose narration on Maddalaegi's ornamentat -ion”, “telling by poetic speaker's single voice”, etc. This thesis shows that this type also features “The Identification Discourse”, which makes the relationship between ‘poetic-speaker’ and ‘poetic-reader’ very close. In “B Type(Temptation & Curse Type)” Maddalaegi's suitor is cursed as despite her initial success in luring him, he ultimately decides that his fortunes lay elsewhere. “C Type(Suffering Type)” deals with Maddalaegi's mental and physical suffering due to outside factors. Both these types have characteristics such as “Maddalaegi as a Subject in text”, “omission or abbreviation of Maddalaegi's ornamentation”, “showing by text appearances’ polyphony” etc. With theses features, these types show aspects of “The Distance Discourse” between text and poetic-reader. In this manner, the structural characteristics of discourse which <Maddalaeginorae> show, reveals narrative aesthetics of realism and significant aesthetics of decentralization with generic characteristics. These also instruct conversation between inner structure of text(內的 構造) and extra structure of text(外的 構造) by making the poetic-reader, who has been regarded as the ‘object(客體)’ with a passive role, ‘Subject of interpretation on text'. It's also meaningful in that people's longing to overcome suffering from the hardships of a real life full of taboo, falsity and contradiction etc, is encapsulated as reversed world in literary text.