申維翰의 통섭적 사유방법과 문학세계

Abstract

Sin Yuhan was born of a poor family. Though his ability was acknowledged through the state examination, he remained to be a minor official during his lifetime. But he accepted various theories from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and expressed his thinking through literal works. He lived during the period when there existed lots of distinctions between Seoul and local places, and when party dispute was driven to extremes. He wrote Mokmyeoksangi(木覓山記) to criticize the social abuse caused by distinctions between Seoul and local places and disputation of parties. Before anything else he himself was a victim of that social abuse. But he did not only deplored the situation. He developed his own literary theory and expressed his liberal mind through literal works. (1) Sin Yuhan tried to synthesize classified sects of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism with the way of thinking, geyi(格義). That is the reason why his thought can be recognized to be confucianistic, buddhistic, and at the same time taoistic. (2) Sin Yuhan’s writings are for the most part hard to be understood because he imitated the style of pre-Qin dynasty period. While he rejected the literature as the representation of morality or the literature of eight great masters of Tang and Song dynasties, he asserted his own viewpoint of literature and acknowledged the variegated nature of literature. In this treatise I examined Mokmyeoksangi(木覓山記) and Sihanjeonggi(是閑亭記). (3) Sin Yuhan did not valued rules of versification but valued tianji(天機) which means the operation of natural human mind. He emphasised that every scene and feeling can be an object of poem. It means that his poetic intention had a extensive tendency. It was only possible for those who pursued a extensive research.