泰村 高尙顔의 현실인식과 그 문학적 대응

Abstract

Taechon Goh Sang-an was an intellectual that built his living base in Sangju and was active in the area. Recognizing the basic fact, this study set out to investigate how he perceived the reality of his times and what kind of literary reactions he made according to his perceptions. For that purpose, the study looked into his reality perceptions and issues according to the "situation-response" logic, which addresses the period situations of times and resulting literary responses. The results show that he created a good number of works that were based on physiocracy and had implications for realism, going through the specific difficult experiences of Imjinwaeran as a general of the Righteous Armies and local government official. His literature had the universal nature of his times including the embodiment of lyricism, discovery of the country, and governing discourse, but the unique quality of his literature was realism based on physiocracy. Given that the uniqueness served as a centripetal element of his literature, it appears that the centrifugal force set the topics of his literature in three directions and that the centripetal force unified them into one. His literature became systemized in the relations between the two forces, which was possible because his literature had a Sasanghak(事上學) tendency based on daily life. His Sasanghak was established at the intersection of his experiences as a government official, the situations of his times due to Imjinwaeran, and locality of Sangju country.