20세기 초 서양 기행 가사의 작품세계

Abstract

This thesis is about <Seoyukyonmunrok> and <Haeyuga> which are accounts of Gihaeng-Gasa to the West written in the early 20th century. And the goal of this thesis is to bring light on those travel essays' characteristic of the form and contents and to understand the world of these works. <Seoyukyonmunrok> and <Haeyuga> have significant meaning on the point that they were made based on the contents of observing the West in the early 20th century. There are many parts similar to popular songs like folk song or vulgar songs in the forms of expression in <Seoyukyonmunrok>, and it bears a resemblance to previous age's traveling gasa(Sahaeng-gasa) in the way of its description such as detailed depiction or modern institutions and customs experienced in a foreign country. It is because this work was created for women. <Haeyuga>‘s good trait is to observe all sorts of systems and lifestyle of American society closely and write about it. However it is inconvenient to omit the specific problems in reality and describe obscurely. If it fully described the living fields of Korean residents in Hawaii, the value of this work could be doubled. <Seoyukyonmunrok> has novelty of its observation objects, but it inherits Choseon Dynasty Sahaeng-gasa's tradition in the way of its description and expression. <Haeyuga> is new in the of observing the system and customs of modern American society deeply, still the sense of Yangban which is a sense of privilege appears descendant of noble birth. Those two works have progressive qualities, but on the other hand they were bound by tradition.