한국 고전해양문학의 정위(正位)와 기대지평

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to categorize the correct position of Korean traditional Maritime literature as a subordinate category in Korean classical literature. In order to conduct this study, we predicted the expected horizon of further research in the field along with pending issues such as the field of view and data expansion. Korean classical maritime literature has become the subject of research since the 1990s. However, it was limited to a few literary work or drift records. Moreover, its definition, category, and personality have not been clarified. I have formerly explored the possibility of Korean classical marine literature in the reflux of East Asian land and marine culture. As an extension, in order to overcome the monotony of classical literature research and to share that the imagination and desire of the marine zone are important components of Korean culture, the perspective of access to the field, data expansion, and overall layer reconstruction were presented. In particular, the most urgent issue for the united image of classical marine literature is the expansion of data, which is the need to discover and organize the data beyond genre. Following the data expansion, the types were organized in four layers, which includes the emotion of life in the marine zone, the realization of desire, and the reconstruction of totality. In addition, it was confirmed that there was a change in interest and perception of the sea by the writers in the late Joseon Dynasty, while the new possibilities of classical marine literature was realized with the case of drift records, such an interesting narrative tradition related to the sea. Finally, the expected prospects of further research in this field was predicted as classical literature research, realization of Korean literary geography, and composition of Korean maritime literature history.