李海朝의 「峴山三十詠」에 나타난 지리인식과 襄陽地域의 사회적 상징성

Abstract

This study is to find out methods of researching local literature through “The Thirty Poems of Hyeonsan” by Lee Haejo from ‘Yangyang Area’ in the 17th century. I especially paid attention on the fact that Lee Haejo's geographic awareness and the social symbolism of the ‘Yangyang Area’. Since the formation and change of a social space is achieved on a geographic space, a methodology to understand the relationship between the geographic space and the literary space symbol is required in order to define the meaning that the space symbol as reproduced in literary works bears as a social space. Therefore, in this writing,discussions have been made in a literary geographic method on the premise that the literary space symbol as related to ‘Yangyang Hyeonsan' is one of the socially produced spaces. At the time when Lee Haejo became the governor of Yangyang in 1709 at the age of 50, he made sightseeing trips to Mt. Sorak and Mt. Geumgang, and ‘the Thirty Poems of Hyeonsan' is a series of poems that he composed during his trip period. These poems were appraised to have created the character of their own without being swayed by the mundane world. Lee Haejo selected 30 places of beautiful scenery by referring to “Yeojiseungnam(The Geography Book)" as well as by interviewing a number of the elderly in the Yangyang area. Also, he rediscovered them as the new space with social symbolism by interconnecting ‘Yangyang Hyeonsan' as a semantic network in such a way that leads to the expansion of the range of time and space through association, which was done by utilizing abundant past works and folktales that were made available in the ‘Yangyang area’.