송강가사 교육과 연구의 동향 및 전망

Abstract

This study investigated the historical development of the education and the literary study of “Songgang-gasa” and explored its future direction. Both the education and the literary study of “Songgang-gasa” aimed to facilitate the establishment of the national cultural identity. Fluent critical comments made in the Joseon era played an important role in this process. They became the basis on which scholars and educators described the literary characteristics of “Songgang-gasa”. In the meantime, perspectives regarding the aim of the study and the education of a literary work lies in each reader's aesthetic experience proliferated recently. Existing academic and educational methods were introspected, and the aesthetic experience in the literary education attracted increasing attention. However, changes reflecting this demand were not made enough yet. While the critical comments made in the Joseon dynasty still form a big part in academia, the educational world also remains in the old ways of interpretation that were suggested decades ago. Both the establishment of the national cultural identity and the aesthetic experience of an art work are the critical values that cannot be easily abandoned. Thus paying attention to both of them only can make the classical literature flourish. To make it possible, the perspective regarding these two values as something that can grow mutually is necessary. The value as a tradition also should be based on an aesthetic value. When scholars experience an aesthetic value of an classical art work and studies it in various contexts of the time, they can also imbue significance to it as a part of the national literary history. Therefore, experience centered approach to the classical literature and the studies on its various aesthetic values are more important than anything else presently, and they should be achieved in collaboration between academia and the educational world.