임진왜란기 구국救國의 연대連帶와 글쓰기

Abstract

Studies so far have regarded the Korean Righteous Army Literature during the Imjin War as the product of the succession to the school of thoughts(學派) and family scholarship(家學). However, since literature played a key role for intellectuals in those days as the medium to encourage national unity and determination, it should be defined as the product of active actions to overcome reality. It is inevitable for human to feel a wide spectrum of emotions, having interpersonal relations with others. And war is an extreme situation that human emotions are acutely exposed. Obviously proving this, Songhoyujip(松壕遺集) written and compiled by Ryu Jeong, who was the Righteous Army Commander during the Imjin War, shows various emotions of war participants. The war solidarity led by him showed anger, fear, and revulsion against the enemies, and also at the same time, a will, aspiration, and hope for victory, through united literary actions. Therefore, poetry and prose included in Songhoyujip(松壕遺集) in various forms, such as poems and letters showing a will for national protection, poems, and funeral orations showing a willingness to overcome the fear of war, and poems, songs and manifestos to heal the scars of war, are highly valuable as the material to identify a correlation between human psychology and creating literary works.