寧齋 李建昌의 生涯와 文學 - 고향 江華를 中心으로 -

Abstract

This study examined the life of Young-jae Geon-chang Lee (1852-1898), a gifted scholar of the last generation of Yang-myeong scholars in Joseon, through the works he wrote in Ganghwa, his hometown, and the works he recited about Ganghwa. Young-jae served for government office as the youngest of the 500th year of Joseon Dynasty and was exiled three times as a former bureaucrat who went through two times of Secret Royal Examination and one time of AhnHaeksa. Young-jae is also one of the Ryohansipga and one of the four great writers of the late Joseon Dynasty. Young-jae, who is not defined in a word like this, from the time he was born, he naturally learned Yang-myeong Studies as a family member. Young-jae revealed his thought as an Yang-Myeong scholar in the literary works he wrote, promising to become the best writer in the 500th year of the Joseon Dynasty and serving for government and politics. In particular, Youngjae, who promised to be the best writer, emphasized the Holy Spiritual theory as a theory of literature based on Yang-myeong’s thought. He left a number of poems with a realistic tendency based on the theory of poetry of ‘love’, which emphasized that poetry should come from his emotions. He left a number of masterpieces based on the theory of sentences of ‘Yuohsimhyeop’, which emphasized the subjective aspect. He left the works based on Yang-myeong’s thought like this in 『Myeongmidangjip』. As a result of examining the works he built in and about the Ganghwa area, it was found that works that were created from Yang-myeong’s theory, such as works that emphasized ‘I’ rather than ‘objects’, works that advocated land reform for resolving the gap between the rich and the poor, and works that emphasized the interests of the country and the people. Therefore, this study is meaningful in that it confirms once again that Young-jae was a true classic Yang-myeong scholar.