This thesis was focused on analyzing Kim Samuidang’s prose works. Kim Samuidang is a typical female artist of the late Joseon Dynasty. She has created a lot of poetry as well as prose works. By the 18th century, women writers have created a lot of p...
This thesis was focused on analyzing Kim Samuidang’s prose works. Kim Samuidang is a typical female artist of the late Joseon Dynasty. She has created a lot of poetry as well as prose works. By the 18th century, women writers have created a lot of poetry as well as prose works. Samuidang wrote a prose work up to 23 pieces. And she utilized a variety of prose genres. In particular, she actively utilized farewell prose(送序). Fawell prose is hard to find among woman writers. I overviewed Kim Samuidang’s prose works overall and analyzed the prose works. Samuidang’s prose works is divided into three. The first is the exact language of persuasion on the other side. Its contents are the ones that persuade or urge her husband and children. Through the orderly logic and the exact representation were discussed intensely self- assertion and opinion. Sometimes, she expressed the stylish and leisurely mood through the elaborate language. The ordinary daily life of farmers and the longing for a quiet life was expressed in these works. And she left the excellent work expresses the sorrow and pain of her children’s death.