This study is about literary characteristics and embodiment patterns of texts in ‘Won’ style, which is a branch of rhetoric prose. It develops discussion centering on the works of Jeong Beom-jo (1723~1801), Jeong Yak-yong (1762~1836), Sim Ro-sung (1762~1837) and Lee Deok-mu (1741~1793), who are literary men during the period of 18th century. Won-style prose in those days generally bears the aesthetic perspective of traditional Won-style prose, but it shows different representation of characteristic aspects different from works in previous days. The controversialism or purposiveness that traditional Won-style prose had had since Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty is well disclosed in the works of Jeong Beom-jo and Jeong Yak-yong, but Jeong Yak-yong, who tends to be practical and reformative, is distinguished from Jeong Beom-jo, who emphasizes the principles and what should be. The works of short-piece-style writers such as Lee Deok-mu and Sim Ro-sung are unusual in that they have mixed characteristics that are not found in rhetoric prose, which is quite rigid in material, form and lyricism. In any cases, however, what is preserved is the literary expression of philosophical discourses to understand the nature and origin of raised issues retroactively.

This study is about literary characteristics and embodiment patterns of texts in ‘Won’ style, which is a branch of rhetoric prose. It develops discussion centering on the works of Jeong Beom-jo (1723~1801), Jeong Yak-yong (1762~1836), Sim Ro-sung (1762~1837) and Lee Deok-mu (1741~1793), who are literary men during the period of 18th century. Won-style prose in those days generally bears the aesthetic perspective of traditional Won-style prose, but it shows different representation of characteristic aspects different from works in previous days. The controversialism or purposiveness that traditional Won-style prose had had since Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty is well disclosed in the works of Jeong Beom-jo and Jeong Yak-yong, but Jeong Yak-yong, who tends to be practical and reformative, is distinguished from Jeong Beom-jo, who emphasizes the principles and what should be. The works of short-piece-style writers such as Lee Deok-mu and Sim Ro-sung are unusual in that they have mixed characteristics that are not found in rhetoric prose, which is quite rigid in material, form and lyricism. In any cases, however, what is preserved is the literary expression of philosophical discourses to understand the nature and origin of raised issues retroactively.

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