자료의 집성과 정리작업의 필요성 ―퇴계 이황의 집성연보 편성과 정본 편찬 작업의 경우를 중심으로―

Abstract

This paper investigates the way to compile a biographical sketch and how to organize the collections. The chronological record of Lee Hwang's life and works have been enlarged over the years for two reasons, one from upholding the great tradition, and the other from meeting the requirements of the current times. However, the utility value of these compiled materials is doubtful since the value is itself based on the current scholars' ongoing effort to make a good use of them in the academic field. Since the completion of the four volumes of the Chronological Record of Master Taegye in 2006, the book has not been valued as the compilation of Lee Hwang's works, and has been merely used as a bibliographic sketch. Not many scholars have noticed that the newly added information which had not been compiled in Lee Hwang's anthology. Therefore, to my regret, they have stuck to the old anthology they possessed. The Chronological Record of Master Taegye could have provided a way for academics and researchers to critique and subvert the values of Lee Hwang's thoughts and his times. As the one who complied the Chronological Record of Master Taegye, I regret that the frame to analyze Lee Hwang's literary works was weak, especially poetry and philosophical ideas, and could have been done differently with a better framework. The vigorous use of the Chronological Record of Master Taegye allows scholars to lend pragmatic understanding to Lee Hwang's life and works and offers a structuring function to view his times. Rectifying the fallacies in the past research collection is left for the academics in the field, including myself as a researcher of Lee Hwang's works. Both adding more data to the compilation of the materials and employing an effective way to find values in those collections are needed to enhance the cultural climate of classical works by Lee Hwang, the great scholar and literary man of the nation.