Details

Subject(s)

• Korean literature—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Cho, Heekyoung [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]

Series

• Routledge companions to literature series [More in this series]
• Routledge literature companions

Summary note

"The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of thirty-five chapters written by leaders in the field who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide a valuable and inspiring resource for researchers and students alike. This Companion has particular significance as the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature; it both offers a thorough intellectual engagement with current scholarship and addresses a broad range of topics and time periods, from premodern to contemporary. It will contribute to an understanding of literature as part of a broad sociocultural process that aims to put the field into conversation with other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. While presenting rigorous and innovative academic research that will be useful to graduate students and postgraduate researchers, the chapters in the collection are written to be accessible to the average upper-level undergraduate student and include only minimal use of academic jargon. In an effort to provide substantially helpful material for researching, teaching, and learning Korean literature, this Companion includes as an appendix an extensive list of English translations of Korean literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Redefined and challenged: anthologizing Korean literary studies / Heekyoung Cho
• Part 1: Premodern and Early Modern Korean literature
• Manuscript, not print, in the book world of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) / Si Nae Park
• Performing vernacular: textual practices as bodily events in Premodern Korea / Hwisang Cho
• Books for the illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea / Young Kyun Oh
• Print and transnational referentiality: Nam Kong-ch'ǒl's printing of Kŭmnŭͧng chip / Suyoung Son
• The elite vernacular Korean culture of Chosŏn (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, hybridity, strangeness / Ksenia Chizhova
• Lovesickness and death in seventeenth-century Korean literature / Janet Yoon-Sun Lee
• Idu in and as Korean literature / Ross King
• Hybrid orthographies and the emergence of modern literature in early twentieth-century Korea / Daniel Pieper - Part 2: Modernity and the Colonial Period-- Capital, gender, and modernity in colonial Korean literature / Kelly Y. Jeong
• Sexual violence and its ideological labor: imagining masculinist equality and androcentric ethnos in colonial Korean literature / Jin-kyung Lee
• Incongruent reflections: translation and bilingual writings in Colonial Korea / Yoon Jeong Oh
• The Japanese "cafe France": Chŏng Chi-yong and self-translation / David Krolikoski
• Nonsense as sensibility: the importance of not being earnest in colonial Korea and Taiwan / Evelyn Shilt
• Language, science, and the status of truth in Late Colonial Korea / Christopher P. Hanscom
• A minor modernist's conundrum of representation: Kim Saryang and the colonized I-Novel / Nayoung Aimee Kwon
• Rewriting the city: Yi Sang, architecture, and the figure of the department store / Jina E. Kim
• A forgotten aesthetic: reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s-1930s / Sunyoung Park-- Conversion literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the inward gaze in the Late Colonial Period / Mi-Ryong Shim
• Part 3: Liberation and contemporary Korean literature
• Decolonizing literature: bridging political divides in the Post-Liberation Period / Jonathan Glade
• Vitalism and existentialism in early South Korean literature / Jae Won Edward Chung
• Humanism as a problem of empire in modern Korean literature / Travis Workman
• Gender and class dynamics in the utilitarian discourse of the developmental state and literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea / Serk-Bae Suh
• (Dis)embodiment of memory: gender, memory, and ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang / Ji-Eun Lee
• Continuing orality in Korean poetry: opening a p'an for the page / Ivanna Sang Een Yi
• Ŏmma's baby, Appa's maybe: Black Amerasian children and the layers of diaspora / Jang Wook Huh
• Intersecting Korean diaspora / Christina Yi
• Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainchi literature intersectionally / Cindi Textor-- Closed borders and open letters in the Cold War Korea / I Jonathan Kief
• A good wife is hard to find: North Korean women in fiction / Immanuel Kim
• Children's literature in South and North Korea / Dafna Zur
• Part 4: Queer studies, world literature, the digital humanities
• Forms of attachment: ardent female intimacies in 1920s Korea / Samuel Perry
• The poet and the theater: perverse reading and queer poetry / Ungsan Kim
• World literature, Korean literature, and the medical and health humanities / Karen Thornber
• Global Korea and world literature / Jenny Wang Medina
• The text-mining of culture: the case of a popular magazine in 1930s Korea / Jae-Yon Lee and Hyun-Joo Kim.

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Other title(s)

Korean literature

ISBN

• 9780367348496 (hardcover)
• 0367348497 (hardcover)
• 9781032202662 (paperback)
• 1032202661 (paperback)

LCCN

2021042385

OCLC

1265345852

Other standard number

• 40031104074

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