Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions

David R. McCann

Paper, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11947-4
$27.00 / £18.50

September, 2000
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11946-7
$83.50 / £57.50

"Early Korean Literature presents a provocative theory of the role of 'literary culture' in Korean literature." — Robert J. Fouser, Acta Koreana

"David McCann's Early Korean Literature combines an impressive selection of Korean texts from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries with a series of critical essays that provide creative and sophisticated readings of several of those selections." — Seiji Lippit, UCLA, editor of The Essential Akutagawa

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

David R. McCann is Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His publications include Selected Poems of Sô Chôngju and Form and Freedom in Korean Poetry.

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