韓國 孝行說話의 硏究 = A Study on Korean Filial Piety Narratives

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

1. Filial piety narratives are based on morality. They are, in the traditional sense, considered the elements of the tales of Confucianism, of Buddhism, and of local customs. In terms of their motifs and types, they are classified as follows:
a) self-devotion type. b) self-sacrifice type.
c) self-toil type. d) child-abandonment types.
e) mourning-service type. f) revenge type.
g) allegory type. h) disapproved-filial-piety type.
i) aged-abandonment type. j) miscellanous type.
2. In the social context filial piety narratives inspired the people with the social standard of morality which were to preserve a large family under the patriarchy system as the safety device to the conventional society. In the literary context, they had a function to have the minds of tradition realized among the readers, who would participate 'the tree of tradition' and the colorful literary impressions deepened through the diversity of their literary shapes. Thenarratives are therefore, expected to contribute to the reestablishment of our national culture, especially with their literary mechanisms and the materials and principles of the recons ti-tute throughout all the fields of contemporary literature.
3. Most of the protagonists in filial piety narratives are not the characters who yielded to the fates they were faced with, but the really faithful human beings that approved no immorality at all. They had even the superhuman strength to control their desires and to do only goodness, the filial piety.