죽음의 문학적 전통과 유서(遺書)-유형별 특징을 중심으로-

Abstract

The wills which includes the deads’ the last message for the live are meaningful texts. They are very valuable not only to reveal understanding of contemporary people’s dead, actions for dead, understanding on lives and consciousness aim and the relation between dead and literature but also to approach various field such as literature, history, law, pedagogy, and sociology. However until now they had never received attention until now. It was that they are not meaningless but lack of interesting. This paper conducted basic working for regular study under that the wills were valuable to research in field of Chinese classics like other Chinese literature texts related to death such as prose of the letters on tombstone style(碑誌體), prose of sad letters on ancestrial rites style(哀祭體), prose of the letters on battle field(傳狀體) and so on. For this research, I limited range of materials which were suitable within unique writing styles as the wills. Then I examined academical history on related field based on these materials. Finally I assorted types focused on the contents and expanded this field such as Korean wills. As a result, the wills are important Chinese literature texts including practicality and literary value. Because they expressed the dead’s own spite(遺恨), the last orders of the dead(遺命), death-bed counsels(遺訓) and so on, they could be approached from various field such as literature and educations. And they also could be compared and studied by abutted other genre such as records of sharing property(分財記), family motto(家訓), Korean wills etc. The wills clearly have values as the literature of death and have useful avaliable meanings in various field. Therefore the study on the wills should be continued.