朝鮮後期 漢詩 硏究를 위한 몇 가지 提言

Abstract

Although this paper is written with the theme of some proposals for researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period, it is not for the mass-discourse reviewing overall tendency of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period and suggesting new ways, but for ruminating on the newly arising recent research tendency. Indeed, this paper does not try to mention the generally discussed matters such as matters of translation, understanding individual poems, evaluation on thoughts and poets, and meanings in history of literature, but to focus on the reflections on the new tendency of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period. The current boundary of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period is more expanded than that of any previous time. Setting up the east Asian cultural area based on de-ethnocentrism and de-nationalism and methodological adoption of culture theory have us modify the previous way of research under some slogans toward maintaining an objective perspective recognizing ourselves as a part of the whole, discover diverse groups of poets, and proceed researches on them. However, the possibility that the expansion of research boundary with them can made the substance of Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period entangled and misled is hard to be denied. In present, the denial of the expansion of the boundary of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period should not be done and also could not be done. However, in order to verify the meaning of the expansion of the research boundary, the substantiality that is not shakable even within the expansion of boundary must be constructed by priority. With them, the tendency of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period becomes logical, objective, and fragmented; and such a tendency reflectively reviews previous researches and brings up thinks about many things that have not attracted attentions. Representing them are derangements of terms, derangements between universality and particularity derived from lack of understanding, and mis-distinction among tradition, succession, transmission, influence, and innovation. Regarding such matters, if researchers of Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period look at objects without much think depending on simple and linear understanding, the reality of Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period shall be seriously distorted. Neither that the matters of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period mentioned in this paper are original or special, nor that matters not mentioned are meaningless can be said. Rather, it can be said that the matters presented in this paper are slightly out of the traditional discourses and currently appeared in front of researchers and that the method to resolve them has not been found yet. While the solution for the internal matters is not easy, the matters which arise from the research boundary expanded to east Asia and from the research tendency extended to culture seems to have actually little possibility to solve. In some ways, the deconstruction of borders and disorder which are derived from the increase of value and meaning through the territorial extension and the derangements of concepts which the pursuit of clarity through systematic establishment brings up can be considered as something that nobody can resolve. Nonetheless, going back to the starting point of researches on Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period and re-asking ourselves ‘what’ and ‘why’ once more, we may, though we may completely solve the problems, at least stop the expansion and deepening of these matters. It seems that it is the time for researchers of Sino-Korean poems of the late Joseon period to exert and to endeavor carefully.