Global Perspectives on Korean Literature
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 v
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Wook-Dong Kim
Global Perspectives on Korean Literature
Wook-Dong Kim
Global Perspectives on Korean Literature
Wook-Dong Kim Ulsan, Korea (Republic of )
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Preface
In the Western world, and particularly in North America, World Literature was long defined as an established canon of European masterpieces, such as Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare. An emerging global perspective, however, has challenged both this European focus and, indeed, the very categories of “the classics” or “the masterpieces.” Now it appears that to talk about classics and masterpieces sounds a little anachronistic. This explains, at least in part, that it is more appropriate to talk about “World Literature” in upper cases, rather than “world literature” in lower cases. In a global world rapidly changing on an unprecedented scale, the scope and purpose of literature could not remain as it was. The slow but steady development of World Literature as a promising frame of reference in the field of literary study certainly changed the face of literature. We are forced willingly or unwillingly to fall in love, in David Damrosch’s phrase, “with a body of work from another time and place”—with the literature of other languages and cultures. In this process, some nations that have long been condemned to obscurity recently began to gain increasing visibili
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