Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn and Her Hansi : a study of the life and the work of Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn, a poetess of the late sixteenth century, in Yi dynasty Korea
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1984
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Choe-Wall, Yang Hi
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The poetess, Ho Nansorhon, lived and wrote her poetry during the
reign of King Sonja. This period of the Yi dynasty witnessed the
Confucianization of society to its greatest degree, with the
inflexibility of the system and its concomitant sanctions severely
restricting the lives of Yi dynasty women, especially warren of the
yangban class, to which Nansorhon belonged. Nansorhon was born into
a celebrated family of high and distinguished lineage. As a girl she
was reputedly vivacious, with an obvious talent for learning the
Chinese classics. She was fortunate in having gifted brothers, who
later were acclaimed as being amongst the foremost writers and poets
of the period.
The late sixteenth century was also the golden age of hansi, a
time when disillusionment with Confusian literary values emerged and
the ideals of the literati-officials came under scrutiny. From this
discontent, the influence of the Sung poetic convention was replaced
by the T'ang poetic traditions. A group called Sam-Tang siin fully
exercised the new tradition, displacing the longstanding attitude that
poetry should remain as the pastime of the cultured man. This group
expounded that the study and writing of poetry should exist as a
lifelong discipline of writers, for whom literature must be their main
concern. Importantly, one of the group, Yi Tal, was the Ho family
tutor and it was he and Nansorhon's brother, Ho Pong, who
significantly influenced her literary activities.
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