포스트휴먼 담론과 고전서사의 장르론 연구 -귀신 서사의 환상성을 중심으로-

Abstract

Today's posthuman discourse, which aims to establish a new view of humanity, requires a change in thinking in various areas. In this context of the times, This discussion seeks to examine the genre characteristics of the narratives of ghosts, non-human beings that appear throughout Korean classical narratives, from the perspective of fantasy. These narratives induce new thoughts and reflections on the existing view of humanity and the world through fantastic events that deviate from the consensus reality. In this discussion, we examined the composition method and effects of fantasy in the narrative genres of tales(legends), Jeon-gi(傳奇), and novels, focusing on <Choi Chiwon(崔致遠)>, a representative work of Jeon-gi(傳奇). Legends in which ghosts appear cannot produce results in the real world unless the fantastic events are accepted as the cause in the real world. Therefore, fantastic events are accepted into the real world, and fantasy causes the effect of active revision to the existing consensus reality. Novels in which ghosts appear realize fantasy in the text by creating various textual actual worlds that are distinct from the real actual world. By maintaining an appropriate distance from the real world, it actually creates the effect of materializing and revealing various desires arising from the real world and satisfying them vicariously. Jeon-gi is similar to legend in that it attempts to bring fantastic events into the real world, but it differs in that it aims for personal reflection on reality. Jeon-gi provides new interpretations and thoughts on the reality that oppresses individuals, but like novels, it does not create a world other than the real world and is still obsessed with the laws of the real world. This approach to the ghost narratives that appear throughout Korean classical narratives may find significance as a new study of classical literature attempted in the posthuman era.