남편을 위한 한글 제문의 서술 전략과 의미 – ‘독처의 제문’을 중심으로

Abstract

This study examines the literary characteristics of long-form ceremonial writings by Korean women. The study focuses on “the ceremonial writing of dokch’ŏ.” This ceremonial writing covers events that occurred up to a year after her husband died from an illness. The narrator reveals that she wrote the ceremonial writing to comfort the soul of her lonely husband. However, the narrator is conscious of another listener who, in addition to the dead person who is the object of consolation, listens to her confession of her troubles and plight. The narrator explains that it seems that she does not show her sincerity to her sick husband. However, she in fact pours her entire heart and all her effort into her husband’s recovery. Moreover, she blames her relatives, who doubted her sincerity, for not giving her a chance to stand by her husband during death. Moreover, she is pessimistic about her situation because she is alive only during her husband’s funeral for three years, and she pours out her anger over her lonely life, which no one else recognized. As such, the ceremonial writing of dokch’ŏ describes the sadness caused by one’s own resentment, disappointment, and loneliness with considerable weight, and it expresses it using concrete rhetoric. Ceremonial writing was accepted as writing by women and was written in tandem with motivating events. Therefore, in ceremonial writing, self-expression by the author, which overwhelms the superficial purpose of writing, was possible. Women’s ceremonial writing that was like dokch’ŏ transformed ceremonial writing into writing that described women’s personal lives as self-expression.