正祖의 『御定陸奏約選』 편찬 의도와 그 배경

Abstract

The numerous publications produced by Gyujanggak(奎章閣) have significance for a part of the cultural policy, such as Munchebanjeong(文體反正). Eojeongyukjuyakseon (御定陸奏約選) is King Jeongjo(正祖)’s excerption and summarization of Yukji(陸贄)’s Juuimun(奏議文), and as such, is the prose anthology and a kind of an abridged edition of it. Yukji was a prime minister, who assisted Dang Deokjong(唐 德宗) honorably, and Jeongjo judged his Juuimun as the best among all of the Sojangmun(疏章文)s. The Juui kind proses could be judged differently from the literature proses not just because they are strict in following their own forms, but also they consist of the contents which could be only made with the professional knowledge on the phases and the social problems of the day. This is not unrelated with Jeongjo’s negative view on some of 18C’s Gyeonghwaseju(京華世族). Due to their deep connection with Chosun’s current affairs(時務) of the day, the contents on Yukseongongjuui(陸宣公奏議) could be sufficiently used politically. The compilation and publication of Yukjuyakseon has the nature in the ignition of influence of gentry’s concern and the remonstrance(諫言) about the national matters. Also, ‘Yakseon’(約選), a way of compilation, was Jeongjo’s effort for the bureaucrats, who did not have any concern about government and were lack of administrative insights, to read at least its minimum by extracting its essence(精髓) from the huge text. This was the same way that the all other anthologies in Gunseopyogi(羣書標記) had chosen. Jeongjo tried to use Yukseongongjuui in reign focusing on its ‘political practicality’, and presented Yukjuyakseon as an alternative of the narrative, vignette writing(小說體․小品文) trend which had been disputed, making it a classic of prose. The meaning of the compilation, publication and supply of books for reign is another view point which can be used in understanding Jeongjo’s cultural policy. In this respect, one side of Munchebanjeong could be understood as an inducement for the influence of gentry to write pure(醇正) proses such as Yukseongongjuui, that is, the writings containing the Confucian rationality. As such, Eojeongyukjuyakseon should be regarded not just a simple Juuiseonjip(奏議選集), but a text which had been re-produced with the political intention under the contemporary context of the late 18C’s Chosun society.