조선 후기 소설의 인식 연구 ― <징세비태록>과 <윤선옥전>의 서사비교를 중심으로― = A Study on the Perception of Novels in the Late Joseon Dynasty - A Comparative Analysis of Jingsebitaerok and Yun Seon-ok jeon -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study analyzes the cognitive structure of novels in the late Joseon Dynasty. Focusing on Jingsebitaerok and Yun Seon-ok jeon, it explores how each narrative negotiates the interplay between abstract values and concrete experiences. Jingsebitaerok depicts a protagonist oscillating between ideological loyalty to the Ming and pragmatic adaptation to Qing dominance, thereby dramatizing the regulation of political and ideological distance. Conversely, Yun Seon-ok jeon transforms the tangible suffering of war into the abstract value of familial solidarity, enacting the emotional transcendence of psychological distance. Both texts reveal a dynamic transition between abstraction and concreteness that mirrors the late Joseon intelligentsia’s cognitive strategies for understanding a changing world. Interpreting these processes through CLT underscores that late Joseon fiction was not merely a vehicle for moral or didactic discourse but a site of cognitive experimentation—where value, emotion, and perception were continuously reconstructed. This approach thus reframes classical Korean fiction as a narrative of cognition grounded in the aesthetics of psychological distance.