멀리서 읽는 중국 고전시가―왕유와 맹호연을 대상으로

Abstract

“Distant Reading” proposed by Franco Moretti, refers to a method of quantitative analysis of literary research. Recently, it has evolved in the early sense of quantitative research on literary research and has been re-examined from the perspective of combining digital humanities methodology and literary sociology. This study began with the question of whether it is possible to incorporate the methodology of “Distant Reading” into the study of Chinese classical poetry. In other words, the "District Reading" methodology was started to answer the concerns and questions of whether Chinese classical poetry could serve as a new driving force in research. Wang Wei and Meng Hao-ran are classified as so-called Tang natural poets and are evaluated to have created many high-quality Sansu poems. The Qing poet Wang Shi-zhen also pointed out and praised the poetry of these two poets for reaching a profound and high level. As is well known, Chinese classical poetry has a fixed form. Therefore, if the location and number of the same characters occur for the characters that make up each line in the works of Wang Wei and Meng Hao-ran, the basic similarity between the two poets can be confirmed. Alternatively, by organizing and presenting the most frequently used poems in frequency order for each poet, a clue to infer the trend of the work can be found. This is because the use of poetry in the creation of poetry acts as an indicator that the poet is unconsciously influenced. The author introduced a quantitative analysis method for Wang Wei's poems and Meng Hao-ran's poems in 『complete Tang poems(全唐詩)』, analyzed the poems of two poets, Wang Wei and Meng Hao-ran, and presented the frequency of their shared and favorite poems. In addition, it was confirmed that the two poets should be clearly distinguished even if they had something in common that they belonged to natural poetry in Chinese literary history. Meanwhile, Meng Hao-ran was higher than Wang Wei in the Vocabulary Diversity (TTR) index, a tool that qualitatively measures the richness and variety of vocabulary used by the artist, confirming the next research task on how to view the debate that “Meng Hao-ran's poetic level does not reach Wang Wei's poetic level.” among Chinese writers.