산 자를 위한 죽은 자의 문학, 유서(遺書)

Abstract

This paper aims at bringing the will existing outside of Chinese classics study over to inside of that study. Although wills are clearly literature arising from material, death, they stayed at outside Chinese classics until a recent day. It is not they fall literary value but they are not interested from reachers. So this paper reveals that wills are attractive literary fares linking literary tradition, they will be studied by many reachers. For which, this paper bounce around three points. The first, it classifies formal features on wills, kinds of magazines, containing same system with epistolary wills. The second, it researches contents of will and their aesthetic features. The last, how wills are accepted and understood by people in the days and the later days. Through study of these three study field, wills enough derive literary movement by the media of affection between the live and the dead, they are enjoyed as literary fares. The studies on wills start now. These studies can be done in various fields such as education, history, society, culture and so on. It is very interesting that comparative study with Korean wills. I hope that the studies related with wills shall hot up in the future.