전설의 서술방식과 역사적 상상력 -세 유형의 인물전설을 중심으로

Abstract

Legends are illiterate peoples' memories, that is to say, unwritten histories. In order to preserve memories record, the irony is that recording will vanish memories. Legends have preserved forgotten histories and lost memories in the form of the stories. Legends have revealed philosophical take on the world of the people who transmitted the stories that has come down to us by popular tradition. Peoples have remembered valuable memories, gave important meaning to events of the past through transmitting the legends. The cultural memories in the legends, such as fixed and settled down in the particular way of the making stories, show the peoples' awareness of the world and historical imaginations. The stories of Lee Seongkye model after a pattern of the biography of the founder or of the typical structure founding myth. But on the other hand some stories exist as an alternative to the story against the legitimacy of Lee Seongkye. The stories of Agi jangsu(the tale of the Baby Generalissimo), disappearing evidence and region, were dramatically remaded by the tragic stories. The stories of Chung Manseo show the new figure of hero and these are made up of a parallel way with offering the similar episodes. It is easy to clearly distinguish the pattern of making stories between the parallel way and the biographic way. The stories of Lee Seongkye show the peoples's sympathy of the hero who is recognized by the god and antipathy of Lee's the dynastic revolution. The stories of Agi jangsu show the poeple's defeatism, the dispair on the defeat of hero from the ragtag and the acceptance of the logic of government power. The stories of Chung Manseo shows the peoples' new awareness of the new age and changing current. The understanding of the world and the historical imagination works in the ways of making stories in the legends