Global Perspectives on Korean Literature

• Main Author: Kim, Wook-Dong (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Oriental literature.; Comparative literature.; Korea-History.; Literature-Translations.; Asian Literature.; Comparative Literature.; History of Korea.; Translation Studies.

This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has been influenced by, as well as it has influenced, literatures of other nations. Beginning with the Korean version of the King Midas and his ass's e...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The King Midas Tale in Ancient Korea
• 2. W. Arthur Noble's Ewa: An Intergeneric Novel
• 3. Jack London and Korea
• 4. Pike's Our Little Korean Cousin and New's When I Was a Boy in Korea
• 5. Soon Hyun as a Man of Letters
• 6. Thomas Wolfe and Younghill Kang: A Literary Adoption
• 7. No-Yong Park's Chinaman's Chance: A Fictionalized Autobiography
• 8. Gunsam Lee's The Eternal Thread as a Tragedy
• 9. Younghill Kang's Murder in the Royal Palace as a Political Satire
• 10. Intertextuality of Jeong Ji-yong's Poems.