FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA

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author={ Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun },
title={FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA},
journal={Acta Koreana},
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pages={521-543},
doi={10.18399/acta.2015.18.2.007},
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AB - During the seventeenth century, a surge in fictional stories ushered in an era of romance in Korean literature, and lovesickness became a topical motif. The prototype of the lovesick figure is detected in oral stories dealing with the lovesick snake (sangsa paem) in which a lovesick woman undergoes metamorphosis into a snake. This icon of the lovesick snake has endured and persisted in written and oral traditions. This research undertakes a careful investigation of this metaphor and its meanings in various textual and cultural contexts and further explores the complex relationship of the politics of female desire, death, and metamorphosis in diverse discourses. This study reveals how the grotesque, repulsive image of serpentine transformation creates a focus on horror, alienation, and victimhood in the representation of female lovesickness. Finally, con-structs of the lovesick snake are assessed and reconsidered to expose the relationship between popular discourse and written works, uncovering a literary tendency in androcentric writing practices to associate female lovesickness with sexual and erotic illness.
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Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun (2015). FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA. Acta Koreana, 18( 2), 521- 543.

Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun . 2015, “FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA”, Acta Koreana, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 521-543. Available from: doi:10.18399/acta.2015.18.2.007

Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun “FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA” Acta Koreana 18.2 pp. 521-543 (2015): 521.

Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun . FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA Acta Koreana [Internet]. 2015; 18( 2), : 521-543. Available from: doi:10.18399/acta.2015.18.2.007

Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun . “FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA” Acta Koreana 18, no.2 (2015): 521-543. doi: 10.18399/acta.2015.18.2.007

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FEMALE DESIRE, ILLNESS, AND METAMORPHOSIS IN ‘LOVESICK SNAKE’ NARRATIVES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA

Acta Koreana

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2015, vol.18, no.2, pp.521 - 543

DOI : 10.18399/acta.2015.18.2.007

발행기관 : 계명대학교 한국학연구원

연구분야 : 기타인문학

Lee, Janet Yoon-Sun¹

¹계명대학교

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초록

During the seventeenth century, a surge in fictional stories ushered in an era of romance in Korean literature, and lovesickness became a topical motif. The prototype of the lovesick figure is detected in oral stories dealing with the lovesick snake (sangsa paem) in which a lovesick woman undergoes metamorphosis into a snake. This icon of the lovesick snake has endured and persisted in written and oral traditions. This research undertakes a careful investigation of this metaphor and its meanings in various textual and cultural contexts and further explores the complex relationship of the politics of female desire, death, and metamorphosis in diverse discourses. This study reveals how the grotesque, repulsive image of serpentine transformation creates a focus on horror, alienation, and victimhood in the representation of female lovesickness. Finally, con-structs of the lovesick snake are assessed and reconsidered to expose the relationship between popular discourse and written works, uncovering a literary tendency in androcentric writing practices to associate female lovesickness with sexual and erotic illness.

키워드

lovesickness, lovesick snake, oral tradition, medical discourse, yadam, male literati, female body, androcentric writing, Confucian norms

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