조오현 문학에 나타난 불교적 세계관과 세속적 해학미 - 『적멸을 위하여: 조오현문학전집』을 중심으로

Abstract

A Study on the Buddhist Worldview and Aesthetics of SecularHumor in Jo Oh-Hyeon’s Literature:With a Focus on For Vupasama(Extinction)Lee, ChanThe present study aims at exploring in detail the Buddhist worldview andaesthetics of humor in Jo O-hyeon’s literary works. This includes the same contextas an elucidation of the ways in which his poems closely correspond in expressiveforms and thematic contents. It is because, in Jo’s literary world, where shortpoems and prose poems form a contrast, the expressive forms and thematic contentssharply differ depending on the ways in which prajnapti (provisional designation)is either foregrounded or backgrounded. In his literary world, when such a viewof language and a worldview based on prajnapti are foregrounded, works thateither inherit or play a variation on the fixed structure of the sijo emerge; andwhen they recede to the rear and are backgrounded, verses in the form of theprose poem are formulated. In addition, in Jo’s literary works, where such aworldview of prajnapti and an aesthetics of secular humor intersect together, thethoughts on bheda-abheda(difference-non-difference) and the madhyama-pratipad(middle way) are formed. Such thoughts have considerable significance becausethey not only harbor a possibility of deconstructing and overcoming the oppositionof the sacred/profane but also present a vision of a new unity.