17·18세기 기행가사와 풍경의 미학

Abstract

This thesis analyzed travel lyrics(紀行歌辭) created in 17~18th century in the perspective of landscape aesthetics. The landscape herein does not mean simply the realization of the external nature grasped sensually by writers, but a kind of medium composition which formally realizes the objective sentiments of a poet. When viewed from this perspective, the landscapes in travel lyrics of the 16th century shows a high gravity on priori landscapes and transcendental imaginations. The beginning of the 17th century succeeds to the landscapes of the 16th century while showing that works had more room for internal landscapes which contain the mental state of writers. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, natives of noble family created travel lyrics mainly described their experiences at the noted sights around and near their residence. The contents of them were mostly mountain and field landscapes which are highly dreamy or fantastic as alternatives for their painful secular lives. On the other hand, they created watercolor landscapes containing the everyday lives of villagers and formalized symbolic landscapes connecting their ideologies to natural objects without a medium. In the late 18th century, travel lyrics showed not only the expression of emotions but also notable descriptive expansion. In lyric works of this time, realistic landscape description is remarkable. It is especially notable that humanistic landscapes appeared which show various aspects of people’s lives rather than the description of natural landscape itself.