대하소설의 ‘일상 서사’의 미학

Aesthetics of Common Narrative on the River Novels: Rope Dancing Between the Common and Uncommon

The affinity of women and common life is well known. This thesis examines the aesthetics of ‘common narrative’ on the story of Hyeonssiyangwoongssangninki, Okwonjaehapkiyeon, and Wanwolhyemaengyeon. ‘Common narrative’ is shown in the grand part of wife’s making play on husband and the family of husband’s taking part with daughter-in-law. In these common narratives the hope and desire of women in agony under the patriarchal system of the time place. It is presented in the form of making play on and embarrassing men, occasionally by women oneself and occasionally in the conspiracy with family of husband. The tight rope dancing between common reality of the time and the desire of getting out of common life is the aesthetics of river novels of the latter period of Chosun Dynasty. Women of the time might dream another common life over the real common through these common narratives of the novels.