Aesthetic perception is a way of thinking existing in individual level perceptional world and the result of individual value judgement. Therefore, formation or expression of aesthetic perception centers particularity rather than universality. However,...
Aesthetic perception is a way of thinking existing in individual level perceptional world and the result of individual value judgement. Therefore, formation or expression of aesthetic perception centers particularity rather than universality. However, it is impossible to define aesthetic perception as a result from completely individual value judgement.
This study is to examine the aesthetic perception in literatures created in Seongho's family. For the purpose, it should be initially answered if the expansion of the boundary of aesthetic perception as an individual level way of thinking toward that as a family level one is possible and if the formation of an independent aesthetic perception separated from a family's academic or literature tradition is possible.
This study in order to examine the aesthetic perception in literature of Seongho's family through poetry limits the object of the study only into Maesan Yi Hajin who was Seongho's father, Seongye Yi Jam who was Seongho's second brother, and Seongho Yi Yik. Maesan, Seomgye, and Seongho are charaters having lived in similar period in a same family. They were in similar political circumstances, and based on a same academic tradition. Nonetheless, searching more deeply, three individuals' lives look differently. Thus, the perceptional worlds of the three can be said to be same but different, and be different but same.
Within the category of aesthetic perception or the experience of aesthetic value, the aesthetic perception were the same as the moral beauty emphasizing practical value. However, despite the similarity, the gaps among those three individuals' lives caused the perceptional differences about the concept of practical value and about practical application, have them create literatures of different appearances, and distinguished the aesthetic feelings of their literatures.
Answering to such similarity, distinction, and its meaning requires more comparative analyses about more literature pieces; yet poems of the three must have fundamental similarity because the three went through similar situations in their lives in a same family. Nevertheless, it need to be recognized that this fundamental similarity must be changed throughout their individual studies and lives. Indeed, it is very normal that poems of Maesan, Seomgye, and Seongho have affinity and disparity at the same time. Expanding this discussion, it is thought that the possibilities to explain the similarities and particularities which literatures of late Joseon period have in their characters can be found.