Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions

David R. McCann

Paper, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11947-4
$27.00 / £16.00

September, 2000
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11946-7
$83.50 / £49.00

"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

"This book challenges the current parameters of Korean literature as it boldly maps out major works across diverse genres in prose and verse, history and literature, as well as in literary Chinese and vernacular Korean. A persuasive redefinition of the boundary between historical and literary texts, the book is at once provocative and user-friendly." — JaHyun Kim Haboush, University of Illinois, translator of The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

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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