<太原誌>의 대외인식과 세계관

Abstract

"Taewonji" is a Naksunjaebon novel in which various studies have been submitted due to the specificity and creativity of the narrative. The novel's unique creativity is shown by its mysterious marine adventure and the narrative of start-ups in the new world. Joseon was a closed country based on a policy to ban maritime activities from the 14th and 5th centuries, but it underwent a change in the maritime view in the wake of the Imjin War. In addition, the emergence of the narrative of "Pyohaerok", a record of drift, played a part in the change of the ocean view. However, due to the lack of information on the world situation due to the continued maritime policy, Westerners reflected in Koreans at the time share the perception of monsters in the marine adventure of "Taewonji". "Taewonji" plays an important role in the narrative so that the story of the sea adventure through drift accounts for half of the work. For Lim Sung and his party, the encounter with the other person, a monster, will be symbolized as a process of hardship to realize the throne, but the setting of the narrative of moving beyond the sea to a new world or imaginary space paradoxically means contradictions or frustrations of reality. The narrative of eradicating goblins in "Taiwonji" can be said to be the expression of the internal agitation of the late Joseon Dynasty and the tension of facing the powerful and new batter of the West. To Koreans at that time, the uninvited guest of the West was inevitably perceived as unfamiliar and alien. He was a stranger who invaded across the sea where not only his looks and language but also his worldview could not be understood. The shape of the island and monster that Im Sung and his party met in "Taiwonji" can be said to be an narrative of ignorance and fear of these Western forces at the time. In "Taewonji", Lim Sung and his party acknowledged that the Yuan Dynasty received the throne and did not seek a rebellion, and started a new country in another world, Taewon, after a process of drift, is in line with the worldview of some intellectuals at the time who recognized the legitimacy of the Qing Dynasty's existence and rule. Ming-centered Chineseism still maintained a strong stance, but the emergence of Western forces overwhelming China in the movement to gradually recognize Qing rule turned the direction of Chineseism toward the other enemy, the West. "Taewonji" can be said to be a novel that shows the direction of such a group of thoughts. Of course, the narrative of the conquest of Taewon cannot be described as the founding of the New World, which accurately grasps the situation of the time and shows the expansion of thoughts, but it can be said that Joseon expected the possibility of founding in a world different from the Jungwon. Unlike the next generation of intellectuals who will experience tyrannical exploitation by the West and Japanese imperialism, the 19th century intellectuals still accepted the state of Joseon as a whole and did not reach a strong sense of crisis that they might lose their country. "Taewonji" accepted Joseon as a whole around the world and dreamed of a cultural country different from Jungwon, which would be achieved by a small Chinese Joseon. The influence of faith such as "Jeonggamrok", which was popular due to historical and social situations in the late Joseon Dynasty, is also detected. At a time when the emerging ideological conflict between Western and traditional ideas was fierce, it was intended to show the realization of political and cultural ideals, that is, the representation of Confucian ideals through "Taewonji".