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The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea
Christopher P. Hanscom
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Hardback. Examines three Korean authors of the 1930s - Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun - whose works critique competing modes of literary representation in the period of Japanese colonial rule. This title focuses on the relationship between political discourse and aesthetics. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GK; DSBH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
The contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the present. In 1930s Korea, at a formative moment in these debates, a crisis of representation stemming from the loss of faith in language as a vehicle of meaningful reference to the world became a central concern of literary modernists as they operated under Japanese colonial rule. Christopher P. Hanscom examines the critical and literary production of three prose authors central to 1930s literary circles--Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun--whose works confront this crisis by critiquing the concept ... Read more
The contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the present. In 1930s Korea, at a formative moment in these debates, a crisis of representation stemming from the loss of faith in language as a vehicle of meaningful reference to the world became a central concern of literary modernists as they operated under Japanese colonial rule. Christopher P. Hanscom examines the critical and literary production of three prose authors central to 1930s literary circles--Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun--whose works confront this crisis by critiquing the concept ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674073265
SKU
V9780674073265
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About Christopher P. Hanscom
Christopher P. Hanscom is Assistant Professor of Korean Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea
The Real Modern will have a profound impact not only on the ways in which we understand global modernisms, but on our understanding of colonial cultural production in general and 1930s colonial Korea in particular. Meticulously researched and developing a series of highly nuanced, original analyses of three major 1930s modernist Korean writers, The Real Modern [is] a most welcome ... Read more