삼국유사의 신화성과 반신화성

Abstract

Mythicality and anti-mythicaliy are revealed through a semiotic interaction between mythos and logos. This paper aims to show how mythcality and anti-mythicality conflict each other in Sam-guk-yu-sa by describing the interaction between mythos and logos in metacommucative strategies- quotation, annotation, comment, paean- found in this text. In quotation, mythicality is shown because existing stories are directly drawn, but, on the contrary, anti-mythicality is also shown because they are newly disposed in new discursive system. In annotation, mythicality is shown because annotative discourse is subordinated to existing stories, but anti-mythicality is shown because it induces readers from story world to real world. In comment, anti-mythicality is realized in that a transcendental essence of story becomes an object of argumentation, but it can not totally liberate from mythicality in that its presupposition is always mythos. In paean, anti-mythicality is realized in that it creates new mode of language, but it can not totally deviate from mythicality in that newly made languages always raise a strong desire toward transcendence. Such a paradoxical situation can always happen in innumerable microscopic conflicts between mythos and logos in Sam-guk-yu-sa. Therefore, it is impossible to reduce diverse figures revealed in such a dynamic movement to simple and abstract categories like mythicality and anti-mythicality.