李鈺의 남녀지정(男女之情) 문학 재고

Abstract

Yee Ok consumed his literature as pleasure. He thought that a superb theme in his literature was 'love between man and Woman.' But it's problematic fact that Yee Ok secured his literary theory on love from writers in the left faction of Yang-ming philosophy of the Ming dynasty, but he didn't accept philosophic bases to support his new theory of literature. Therefore, he was capable of dealing with a story of a virtuous woman, though he enjoyed provocative and weird stories about a love story between man and woman, which were based upon a view of woman from Sung Confucianism. Though he sincerely depicted the exceptional love between man and woman. he was able to repeat his post-assessment different from it. Since he was unable to escape from his man-centered viewpoint as a liberal writer, he ridiculed or admired a woman, and could laugh at a woman, depending on his violent viewpoint and projecting manly desire on weird love between man and woman. He scoffed at a woman by comparing a old woman to an inedible fruit. Also. he praised a kisaeng as chivalrous when she committed a double suicide, contributing her sexual attribute to a man. Also, by rewriting a petition, which depicted merciless violence a woman suffered from, into a pornographic one, he made it so ridiculous as to be convulsed with laughter. Betraying described contents in his post-assessment and projecting a man's desire into a woman's body, he made it a basic literary strategy to enjoy/ridicule a woman, or enjoy/assess a woman through a man-centered viewpoint. Although Lee Ok was a liberal writer whose literary capability was prominent, he didn't secure a view of world and was so immoral as to make a woman's predicament a pornograph. As some researchers said, Yee Ok didn't feel pity for a woman with a woman's emotion, but was a secular writer to be so biased as to consume a woman's body as a pleasure from his man-centered viewpoint.