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.

Cry Korea

Cry Korea
Author: Reginald Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN: 9780955830204

A classic piece of war reportage. Challenging, and full of unsavory revelation.

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.

Neo-Confucianism in Korea

Neo-Confucianism in Korea
Author: Chai-shin Yu
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0875731066

Chinese and Japanese Neo-Confucius scholars have traditionally claimed that Korean Neo-Confucianism was an imitation of Chinese Neo-Confucianism, a belief which was generally accepted by Western scholars. Now, this book edited from the theses of representative Korean Neo-Confucius scholars, shows that the three Korean scholars, T'aegye, Yulgok and Dasan in the Chosŏn Dynasty, developed Neo-Confucianism as a national political and religious philosophy which became specialized in a uniquely Korean way.

Filthy Fictions

Filthy Fictions
Author: Monica Chiu
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780759104563

Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about 'Asian American' and 'dirt' through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, the book discusses critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies around the topic of identity (re)production and transnational representation.