『천일야화』의 ＂놋쇠의 성＂ 이야기의 서술 구조에 관한 연구

A Study on the Structure of Narratives in the 「Alf Laylah wa Laylah」: Focusing in "The Castle of Brass"

The Thousand and One Nights as an Arabian literary work, is a well-known story. This story is based on traditional stories, but it has a great meaning in that narratives handed down orally are documented and improved to be more mature and fresh. However, as domestic studies on the work are confined to the general research, this study focuses on "The Castle of Brass" in which a variety of materials are dealt to analyse forms of narratives and their descriptive structure in depth. This study is based on "Alf Laylah wa Laylah" (Al-Kitab al-Rabi) in Bulaq version of which the narrative structure and characteristics are examined. The repetition of the phrase, the poems and exhortations on the inscriptions were examined to find an interactive relation and organized uniformity among narratives. For a study of descriptive structure in this story, formal frames of narratives were analysed. As narratives in The Thousand and One Nights have different forms and origins, it is difficult to connect one narrative to another in a single large frame. A number of episodes in this story are related by the helps of redator with the same thematic structure in his story. It is examined that episodes with independent descriptive forms are connected by a variety of story-telling devices and repeating motifs. Thus, it is demonstrated that "The Castle of Brass" has various story-telling devices. The sequence of events in this story has many descriptive frames, but they are unified by the same motifs and using the key-words. Then we can find that the thematic concerns of the story were summarized nicely by using the key-words at the denouement. By skillfully repeating motifs, the texts have created structural harmonies among the tale's four major episodes--the jinn imprisoned in bottles, the Black Castle, the ifrit's tale, Queen Tadmur's palace--harmonies which resonate more strongly by being placed in juxtaposition. It finally accomplishes structural harmonies, organized and unified conclusion. In sum, in The Thousand and One Nights, different narratives are connected with organized frames and variety of story-telling devices and repeating motifs.