淸初 批評家 孫琮의 評語 分析 — ≪山曉閣選唐大家柳柳州全集≫을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines the characteristics of criticism in the anthology of early Qing dynasty classical prose, focusing on Sun Cong(孫琮)’s anthology. Sun Cong was a full-time critic of the early Qing dynasty who compiled a vast amount of anthologies. He spent his entire life writing in a library called Shanxiaoge(山曉閣). In his old age, he traveled from place to place and wrote poems. The most widely loved of his writings is ≪Shan xiao ge xuan tang da jia liu liu zhou quan ji≫, which contains 99 prose of Liu Zongyuan(柳宗元) during the Tang dynasty. This paper analyzes his general comment based on this text. His main discussion in the general comment is to explore the writer’s feelings or to include an understanding of the historical development of literature. But in all these criticisms he used the method of division. The reason was to promote a high level of learning effect through the most familiar form between learners and critics. Most of the classical prose of the early Qing dynasty attempted to make literary claims or control ideas based on the purpose of teaching. Other anthologies were compiled for the purpose of learning sentence writing and making them useful for imperial examinations. Son Cong’s purpose of criticism was to teach, and the core of the teaching was to understand the sentence in a timely and holistic manner. This characteristic of his comment best followed the demands of his time.