The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945)

The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945)
Author: Young Min Kim
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793631905

This book explores the history of modern Korean literature from a sociocultural perspective. Rather than focusing solely on specific authors and their works, Young Min Kim argues that the development of modern media, shifting conceptualizations of the author, and a growing mass readership fundamentally shaped the types of narratives that appeared at the turn of the twentieth century. In particular, Kim follows the trajectory of the sin sosŏl (new fiction) as it meshed with the new print and media culture to give rise to innovative and hybrid genres and literary styles. In doing so, he compellingly illuminates the relationship between literary systems and forms and underscores the necessity of re-locating literary texts in their sociohistorical contexts.

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature
Author: Kyounghoon Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1666906298

This book examines one of the seminal chapters in the history of the modern Korea. Through an analysis of texts of various genres and types, the author analyzes Japanese colonialism and modernity and its impact on Korean culture and society during the first half of the twentieth century.

Afterlives of Letters

Afterlives of Letters
Author: Satoru Hashimoto
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231558953

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms. He argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the present’s historical relationship to the past across the cultural transformations caused by modernization. Hashimoto examines writers’ anachronistic engagement with past cultures deemed obsolete or antithetical to new systems of values, showing that this transnational process was integral to the emergence of modern literature. A groundbreaking cross-cultural excavation of the origins of modern literature in East Asia featuring remarkable linguistic scope, Afterlives of Letters bridges Asian studies and comparative literature and delivers a remapping of world literature.

Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present

Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present
Author: Michael David Sollars
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 3388
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1438140738

Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."

Education, Language and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Modern Korea, 1875-1945

Education, Language and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Modern Korea, 1875-1945
Author: Andrew Hall
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004515364

This study examines the production and consumption of knowledge in early modern/modern Korea through an analysis of textbooks, newspapers and media, government policies, official documents, and autobiographies to mine the sites of contestation and struggle in education and intellectual history.

Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated Edition)

Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated Edition)
Author: Bruce Cumings
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2005-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393327027

"When Korea's Place in the Sun first appeared, Bruce Cumings argued that Korea had endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century." The new century has seen South Korea flourish after a restructuring of its political economy, and North Korea suffer through a famine that has cost the lives of millions of people. The United States continues to play an important role on the Korean peninsula, from the Clinton administration overseeing the first real hints of reunification to the Bush administration confronting a renewal of nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world." "For those who need a grounding in the tempestuous history surrounding Korea, or a context in which to understand its role in current global politics, this updated edition of Korea's Place in the Sun is a must read."--BOOK JACKET.

War, Occupation, and Creativity

War, Occupation, and Creativity
Author: Marlene J. Mayo
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2001-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780824824334

This collection of essays, based on international collaboration by scholars in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, is the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960. These forty years, punctuated by war, occupation, and reconstruction, were turbulent and brutal, but also important and even productive for the arts. The volume takes a trans-war (rather than an inter-war) approach, beginning with the cultural politics of painting, poetry, and fiction in Japanese-occupied Korea and Taiwan following World War I. The narrative continues with the impact of Japan's war in China and the Pacific War on major Japanese novelists, playwrights, painters, and filmmakers, before moving on to the final stage, Japan's defeat and initial recovery. During the Allied Occupation of Japan and in its aftermath, Japanese artists both confronted and dismissed the question of war responsibility by preserving, reviving, or reinventing the political cartoon, Kabuki drama, literature of the body, and the aesthetics of decadence. Contributors: Haruko Taya Cook, Kyoko Hirano, Youngna Kim (Kim Youngna), H. Eleanor Kerkham, David R. McCann, Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, Mark H. Sandler, Rinjiro Sodei, Wang Hsui-hsiung (Wang Xiuxiong), Alan Wolfe, Angelina C. Yee.

Untold Night and Day

Untold Night and Day
Author: Bae Suah
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683359127

The acclaimed Korean author weaves a “disturbing, beautifully controlled” metaphysical detective story “of doubles, shadows, and parallel worlds” (Financial Times). It’s Ayami’s final day working the box-office at Seoul’s only audio theater for the blind. Her last shift completed, she walks the streets with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. Their conversations take in art, love, food, and the inaccessible country to the north. The next day, Ayami acts as a guide for a detective novelist visiting from abroad. But as they contend with the summer heat, the edges of reality start to fray. Ayami enters a world of increasingly tangled threads, and the past intrudes upon the present as overlapping realities repeat, collide, change, and reassert themselves. Blisteringly original, Untold Night and Day upends the very structure of narrative storytelling. By one of the boldest and most innovative voices in contemporary Korean literature, and masterfully realized in English by Man Booker International Prize–winning translator Deborah Smith, Bae Suah’s hypnotic novel asks whether more than one version of ourselves can exist at once.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024)

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2024)
Author: Caroline Reitz
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre:
ISBN: 1476654425

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.