南野 朴孫慶의 삶과 문학을 통해 본 ‘金塘谷’의 사회적 상징성

Abstract

This study set out to investigate the life and literature of Namya Park Son-gyeong, who was one of ‘Three Old Men of Yeongnam’, and examine the cultural and geographic meanings of his place through his poetry and prose. He was revered as one of ‘Three Old Men of Yeongnam’ in the 18th century along with Daesan Lee Sang-jeong and Baekburam Choi Heung-won. He did not hold a government position and was devoted to practice at ‘Geumdanggok’ of Yecheon, which was called Shipseungji, until he passed away as a classical scholar that lived in a remote village without holding office. The present study developed its discussions in the method of literary geography, which promotes the understanding of relations between geographical space and literary representation, to shed light onto the meanings of spatial representations reproduced in his literature as social spaces. The study was based on the premise that Park's literary spatial representations related to ‘Geumdanggok’ were socially created spaces. The findings show that ‘Geumdanggok’ reproduced in his literature represented ‘space for life’, ‘space for social intercourse and reformation’, and ‘space for the practice of Cheonhyeong’. He understood ‘Cheonhyeong’ or ‘practice of being human’ as the duty of man and found a life space for the fulfillment of the duty in ‘Geumdanggok’, which was a space of mental imagery of a ‘true man’ that practiced life as a true human being of the times. His practice of ‘Cheonhyeong’ as a classical scholar that lived in a remote village without holding office and his literary creation at ‘Geumdanggok’ were the results of place occupation and cultural production in the social and geographic outcome and order of ‘Geumdanggok’, one of Shipseungji.