芳洲 文國鉉의 삶과 文學 - 그의 학문과 시세계를 중심으로

Abstract

Under the influence of conservative and anti-foreign power of his scholastic mantle from Dunam(遯庵) to Toegye(退溪), Bangju Mun guk hyeon tighten his guard against Eastern penetration of Western powers. How to overcome of the power of a foreign country's pillage, he suggests self-discipline, Confucianism's resurgence and the younger generation's training. The historical events and the national rights loss which were occurred in the Joseon dynasty, make him to select a life in seclusion and escaping from reality than a positive practice of his ideal. Thinking himself as a recluse, he decide the course of his life toward to conservativeness from opening. He adhere to Confucianism's traditional ideology and try to practice Confucianism's morality through the original nature's maintenance and nature's fostering under the age of confusion, dream of a recovery in the future society through a traditional Confucianism's study. Bangju's consciousness which lay stress on ‘Seong(性)’ was contrary to Chunwon Lee kwang su, who is a civilized intellectual. Chunwon divide a new literature ideology into three, which ‘JI(知)･Jeong(情)･Ui(意)’ and emphasized on ‘Jeong’. He regard a literature which stress on ‘Jeong(情)’ as an equal thing with ‘JI(知)･Ui(意)’. He lay blame on Confucianism's moralism about the primary factor of Joseon literature undeveloped. Comparatively speaking with Chunwon, Bangju succeed to Confucianism's academic viewpoint and the theory of literature. But thinking over the modernistic situation, he was estimated as a conservative confucian who didn't participate in the demands of the times.