역사 공간의 서사적 재현: 隋煬帝艶史 읽기

Abstract

In this article, I analyzed the narrative features of Sui Yangdi Yanshi, one of the historical romance(歷史演義) published in late Ming, focusing on the aspect of representations of the historic space. This is because the literary features of Sui Yangdi Yanshi, which are distinct from the historical narratives of the previous period, and similar to other types of feature-length vernacular fiction, are believed to be closely related to the representation of historic space. Sui Yangdi Yanshi made up a long narrative by modifying, supplementing and rearranging numerous historical events recorded in the previous historical narratives. The most powerful key driver of this work is the representations of historic space. In this work, 長安 is represented as a space that reveals the imbalance of power, 西苑 of 洛陽 as a space of pleasure full of luxury and entertainment, 大運河 as a space of pleasure and crisis at the same time. And 迷樓 of 江都 is represented as a space created for pleasure but cannot satisfy desires unlike 西苑. Sui Yangdi Yanshi constructs the narrative in a mutual-subjective way that represents space through characters and events and shapes characters and events through the representations of space. As a result Sui Yangdi Yanshi becomes a more self-complete text and produces various meanings.