시학과 글쓰기：剽竊과 換骨奪胎 사이

Abstract

Plagiarism is regarded as a kind of literary piracy. We all agree with this opinion. In the middle age the valuation of using sentences or phrases of some other's was different from today. Taking sentences or phrases from other authors is a kind of rhetoric, allusion, in order to enhance the poetic meanings. But in Korean Literature in the middle age, it was not a sort of rhetorics but poetics. Because any author can produce or create his works using the other's works. So to the authors in middle age the allusion was poles apart in their opinions. It was a kind of plagiarism so it must be abandoned in order to take the peculiarity and originality of the authors. But it was also a very important method of creating literary works. First it was a kind of very important and very effective producing method. And second it was a kind of a criterion to evaluate poetic works. During the middle age almost all of the literacies were enthusiastic consistently to learn this method of poetic production in the atmosphere of despising this method. At last the method was despised as a kind of literary piracy. But is it really a kind of literary piracy? Supposing that we could rewrite all of the literary works from the first word to the latest works in one book, then we could not escape from duplicate the same phrases and sentences. We can never escape from the universe of the language which was already formed by creators of many generations. So in some sense finding out whether using sentences or phrases of some other's or not is valueless thing.