애국계몽기 민족도교와 고소설: 신자료 <몽견제석(夢見帝釋)>의 소개를 더하여

Abstract

This study is aimed at not only introducing <Monggyunjesuk(夢見帝釋)> kept by HarvardYenching Library but also the contemplation of the meaning of literature history in this book which will be regarded as Monggyun-style novel of the period of patriotic enlightenment. <Monggyunjesuk> is a 53-chapter manuscript written by Chinese character, before the body of this book, there is 'a picture of public offices(官職圖)' in the country ruled by the one and only God(一神), which describes that the God gives the 59 mountains appointments. As this book reconstitutes the myth of Dan-gun(檀君) like a dream, it combines an ethnic religion with Taoism among people narratively. Especially, among the religions of a people, it is very relevant with Daejonggyo (大倧敎, indigenous South Korean religion worshipping Dan-gun), it uses specific archaic characters in Daejonggyo Script, and a certain Script accommodates the whole story as a part of its description. Here, folk-Taoist imagination, especially, interest in gathering story elements of medical herbs, a mountain spirit religion and space is being emphasized. Among these, the most distinguishable thing is that it constitutes a memorandum about Cheonsangbaekokkyung(天上白玉京) as a space arrangement chart style. As they put this ethnic religion ideology and folk-Taoist imagination together, the novel becomes the place where a new thought, that is, the discussion of national-Taoist agony about era and the method of reaction are taken place. In the period of patriotic enlightenment, by a period distinctiveness, intelligentsia from all walks of life were agonizing and diagnosing about era by their own philosophical views. Like a <Monggyunjesuk>, as a Monggyun-style novel, including <Monggyunzhugeliang(夢見諸葛亮)>, <MongbaegeumTeajo(夢拜金太祖)>, there are <Geumsuhoeuirok(禽獸會議錄)> borrowed from dreamlike narration, <JigusungMiraemong(地球星未來夢)>, and <KKumhaneul(꿈하늘)> that deal with a critical mind and alternatives about era in the position of a newly ethnic religion. <Monggyunjesuk> is a book of discussion which describes the realization of that time in the context of the times, literature history, and the longest-independent thought, Taoism. Also it represents much as a book which provides a place for developing a new ideology.