A Comparative Study of Korean Literature [electronic resource] : Literary Migration /
Park, Sangjin.author.
This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East). In the process, it reexamines the universality of literary values and reopens the questions of what literature is and what it can do. By close reading of texts, it aims to give exposure to Korean literature, in such a way as to attract more attention to the field of world literature and to focus on what kind of relationship they can form and what new horizon of literariness they can construct in the future. This work will help to put the geography of world literature on a more open and just basis, by showing the porous nature of literary migration and supplying the missing links in the current discourse on world literature.  .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Condition of 'East Asia' Discourse: Thought and Practice of De-homogenization -- 2. Porous Modernity: Overcoming Modernity in the Age of Globalization -- 3. The World of Circulation: The Universality of Literary Value in the Guunmong -- 4. The Literary Value of Sin Ch'ae-ho's Dream Sky: A Marginal Alteration of Dante's Comedy -- 5. National Language Beyond Nation-States: Vernacular Literary Language in Yi Kwang-Su -- 6. Literature as Sensibility to the Other: Dante in Modern Korean Literature.
This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East). In the process, it reexamines the universality of literary values and reopens the questions of what literature is and what it can do. By close reading of texts, it aims to give exposure to Korean literature, in such a way as to attract more attention to the field of world literature and to focus on what kind of relationship they can form and what new horizon of literariness they can construct in the future. This work will help to put the geography of world literature on a more open and just basis, by showing the porous nature of literary migration and supplying the missing links in the current discourse on world literature.  .
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.