Author : Sang Yi
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781889330716
An eclectic sampling of modern Korean poetry, superbly translated by husband and wife team.
Author : Sŭng-ja Ch'oe
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Bilingual selection of three contemporary korean women poets at the forefront of the Korean literary scene.
Author : Frank Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Korean poetry
ISBN :
"Throughout the twentieth century, few countries in Asia suffered more from foreign occupation, civil war, and international military conflict than Korea. The Colors of Dawn brings together the moving and powerful voices of over forty Korean poets from these turbulent years. From 1903 to 1945, the Japanese Empire occupied the Korean peninsula and instituted measures to annihilate the nation and its culture. After Japan's defeat in WWII, Korea became a killing ground during the Korean War (1950 to 1953). During this period and into the 1980s, South Korea was controlled by a military dictatorship, and today it remains on war footing. In the midst of internal and external conflicts, Korea's poets--threatened by the authorities with torture, imprisonment, and death--found ways to express their fierce desire for freedom and self-governance. The result is a century of outstanding poetry, from Sim Hun (1901) to more familiar modern and contemporary poets, such as Kim Chi-ha and Ko Ŭn."--Amazon.
Author : David McCann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2004-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231505949
Korea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermoves, yet it still remains relatively unknown outside of Korea itself. This is in part because the Korean language, a rich medium for poetry, has been ranked among the most difficult for English speakers to learn. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry is the only up-to-date representative gathering of Korean poetry from the twentieth century in English, far more generous in its selection and material than previous anthologies. It presents 228 poems by 34 modern Korean poets, including renowned poets such as So Chongju and Kim Chiha.
Author : Min Jeong Kim
Publisher : Moon Country Korean Poetry
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781939568366
In Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and 'naughty, unwomanly" language in order to challenge readers to expand their ideas of not only what a poem is, but also how women should speak. In this way Kim undermines patriarchal authority by displaying the absurd nature of gender expectations. But even larger than issues of gender, these poems reveal the illogical systems of power behind the apparent structures that govern the logic of everyday life. By making the source of these antagonisms and gender transgressions visible, they make them less powerful. This skillful translation from Soeun Seo and Jake Levine, brings the full playfulness and intelligence of Kim's lyricism to English-language readers.
Author : Richard Rutt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472085583
A collection of short, introspective poems known as sijo--a form unique to Korea. They are skillfully translated by Korean scholar, Richard Rutt
Author : Peter H. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139440861
This is a comprehensive narrative history of Korean literature. It provides a wealth of information for scholars, students and lovers of literature. Combining both history and criticism the study reflects the latest scholarship and offers a systematic account of the development of all genres. Consisting of twenty-five chapters, it covers twentieth-century poetry, fiction by women and the literature of North Korea. This is a major contribution to the field and a study that will stand for many years as the primary resource for studying Korean literature.
Author : David McCann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231505744
Preeminent scholar and translator David R. McCann presents an anthology of his own translations of works ranging across the major genres and authors of Korean writing—stories, legends, poems, historical vignettes, and other works—and a set of critical essays on major themes. A brief history of traditional Korean literature orients the reader to the historical context of the writings, thus bringing into focus this rich literary tradition. The anthology of translations begins with the Samguk sagi, or History of the Three Kingdoms, written in 1145, and ends with "The Story of Master Hô," written in the late 1700s. Three exploratory essays of particular subtlety and lucidity raise interpretive and comparative issues that provide a creative, sophisticated framework for approaching the selections.
Author : Jaihiun Kim
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780875730578
A companion volume to the Classical Korean Poetry, this anthology provides the reader a bird's eye view of modern, 20th century Korean poetry, thus completing the sampling of the Korean poetry beginning with the 12th century through the present.
Author : Peter H. Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1990-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780824813215
The history of Korea in the twentieth century has been a grim succession of oppressions, humiliations, and betrayals. Yet through it all, modern Korean writers have been able not only to find their own distinctive voices but to forge a national literature that speaks eloquently of the survival of the human spirit in times of crisis. This anthology includes the finest translations available of representative works in all the major genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, and drama. Readers will gain a clear sense of the development of twentieth-century Korean literature and a vivid impression of the resilience, strength, and tenacity of modern Korean writers.
