새로운 가사 작품 윤씨부인의 <문여가>에 대하여

Abstract

<Munyeoga> has a characteristics of enlightenment in the civilization period with a lyrics depicting women's life with appealing and requesting formats. The date of the writing is when a medieval feudal society was transformed into a modern civil society at the end of 19th century, influenced by foreign thoughts and rules, called the period of transition. The narrator predicted the rising of a civilized society, and aimed for the linguistical de-centering. The story starts with that a female narrator who got married couldn't answer letters due to illiteracy. Initially, the narrator visited a neighbor who knows how to write just in order to ask the neighbor to write a letter for her. However, the neighbor gave her a scolding and persuaded her to learn writing. The story argue that, in the enlightenment period of traditional hereditary society to be replaced by new orders, women as well as men should learn how read and write Korean languages. Notable is that the narrator does not directly appeal to readers. Rather, the story is organized in the way that a woman from neighborhood appeal to the narrator and other women next to her. We can view this method as intended for appealing general women in the society who are in the similar situations, even though the story seems to talk to only women next to her. At that time, most existing lyrics that wrote about women's life with appealing and requesting formats were appealing to readers directly. However, <Munyeoga> used indirect appealing through people in the literary work, making it to be totally new and having special literary merit.