고소설에 있어 ‘流通’과 ‘詩運用’의 상관성에 관한 검토:<구운몽>을 중심으로

Abstract

It is one of the characteristics of premodern novels that most of them include some poems within them. Upon briefly examining the whole of the novels, we readily come to find that the use of the poems becomes different depending on how the novels are circulated. Working with Guunmong, this article intends to explore the correlative aspect of the use of poems and various ways of circulation such as written channel and oral channel, version in Korean and version in Chinese, handcopied one and commercial one, etc. As for the poems concerned, this article includes titles of 16 chapters, which are of the form of couplets as well as general poems inserted into premodern narratives. In case of the titles of 16 chapters, Chinese version is more manifest than Korean version in its poetic effect; in case of the inserted poems, the number of the poems is much less in commercially-printed edition than handcopied version. With no corroborative evidence of the oral performance of Guunmong, I would consider several points as clues for solving the problem: the frequency of the publication of commercially-printed edition, theme and content, oral cultural tradition which most of the premodern narratives have preserved, the phenomenon of storybook reciters' switching their occupation to the writers of commercially-printed storybooks.