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Comparative Study of Korean Literature
Sangjin Park
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Hardback. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; 2GK; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJF; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 375.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137557179
SKU
V9781137557179
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99-15
About Sangjin Park
Sangjin Park received his PhD from the University of Oxford and served as Visiting Professor at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. He is now Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Busan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, and the author of Semiotics and Theory of Openness (English) and Reading Dante’s Comedy: Universality of Classic and Sensibility to the Other ... Read more
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