육당 최남선의 시조정리사업과 그 의미 -『가곡선』과 『시조유취』를 중심으로

Abstract

This report investigates the reproduction process of Sijo as literary discourse method and Yookdang(also named Choi Nam Seon)'s change in perception of Sijo upon publication of "Gagokseon" and "Sijo Youchui", which were designed from Yookdang Choi Nam Seon's cultural practice of his own literary discourse, like his other Sijo-rearrangement projects. In addition, the meaning of Yookdang's Sijo-rearrangement project itself is also dealt as major purpose of this report. The process of Yookdang's selection and reception of Sijo-text handed down from the previous period were product of cumulative literary discourse. He had made succession of variety aspects from shared and enjoyed culture of Gagok which are accumulated from the prior periods(18~19th Century), as well as taking these work pieces apart and re-arranging them with adding new values from his present time period. Through this disorganization and re-integration, he has published "Gagokseon" and "Sijo-Youchui" as a result of re-context process. "Gagokseon" was a project to set up a standardized model of national literature holding national identity of Chosun dynasty by founding the basis to develop national literature of Chosun through "Gagok"-Sijo as a song, within boundary of music, while "Sijo-Youchui" was a process of reorganizing Sijo as a linguistic text, into a Genre of national literature of Chosun. His projects and works from "Gagokseon" to "Sijo-Youchui" shows the constant change in Genre Sijo was facing during the early 20th century, where traditions and modern period was in the verge of change. Sijo, originally being a written Gachang text for acting and singing performance, had came to be more apart from its purpose, and led to searching for poetic discourse as a linguistic method, and at last got fixed poetic style as a literary text. These Efforts of Yookdang had done a conclusive and important role for Sijo as a literary genre to be set in its place within Korean literature. Such work has provided the basis for scholars after age to start theoretical studies of Sijo's contents and format, which are left untouched. And from his works Sijo was detached from Gachang(Musical discourse), started having poetic format as literary text, thus developed basis of " Sijo as literature, Sijo as poem".