애정 전기(傳奇)의 소설화 과정에 대한 일고(一考)

Abstract

This paper is purposed not to treat ‘romantic Jeongi(愛情傳奇)’ as homogeneous work,which appeared throughout the centuries, but to point out the difference of ‘romantic Jeongi’ in literary age, and how it transformed under some antagonistic relationship. For this purpose, this paper based on musical element of ‘romantic Jeongi’ to understand form of fiction genre ‘romantic Jeongi’. Music and language had a close relationship in medieval literature. The ‘romantic Jeongi’ belongs to one of the works which chinese poems(=musical elements) are included in chinese narrative works. Writer intended to create a dramatic atmosphere, character’s emotion and psychology by using chinese poems. That is the way how writer expressed to satisfy reader’s musical sense in high level. Before the first half of the 17th century, musical elements of ‘romantic Jeongi’ have an important aesthetic role and distinguished from after the first half of the 17th century. However, literary tastes of the upper class’ readers gradually escaped from enjoyment of musical elements and as a result of that, chinese poems in ‘romantic Jeongi’ also got gradually loss of its position, since the first half of the 17th century. It means that encounter of narrative and music(musical elements) is close to end, and appear real narrative similar with novel. Therefore, when dealing with novel forming problem, these points need to be considered carefully. It should not be overlooked that Chinese narrative including chinese poems in the text has developed into novel, a specific genre, in the process of changing of writing consciousness, and musicality excluded, the reader’s taste in music also was muted. On the other hand, in terms of romantic Jeongi’s content, theme and writer’s consciousness became it’s peak after the first half of the 17th century. For example, desire for love of main character also made a difference when we compared with the previous period. In the first half of the 17th century, ‘romantic Jeongi’ works shows that love way of main character and their values for love is changing. Thus in the work of ‘romantic Jeongi’, a qualitative difference of the way of describing love shows that there are internal crack in ‘romantic Jeongi’ itself between before and after the first half of the 17th century. It is because the reader in the 17th century, is not any more interested in blindly ideological and rhetorical expression of love in ‘romantic Jeongi’. Instead of it, new readers wanted and are more interested in real love in the routine life. Although the ‘romantic Jeongi’’s formal cortex is still maintained until the 17th century, but its internal characteristics gradually took on the heterogeneous properties of the genre. Since the 17th century, description of character’s love and relationship in works of the ‘romantic Jeongi’ has developed into the genre that can be called ‘novel’ in terms of attitude and perception of reality in comparison of ‘romantic Jeongi’ before the 17th century. Eventually some of works which appeared after the 17th century among ‘romantic Jeongi’’s works had developed into the works which had characteristics of the novel genre in the internal and external.