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Article: http://list.or.kr/content/city-modern-korean-literature-emerges-city
Journal: list_Books from Korea
Issued Date: -
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Language: English(English)
Country: SOUTH KOREA
City: Seoul
Book: -
Writer: Kim Kyung-uk , Pyun Hye Young , Yang Gui-ja , Baek Young ok , Kim Seungok

About the Author

Kim Kyung-uk
Birth : 1971 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Kyung-uk
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김경욱
ISNI : 0000000050172549
Works : 14

PYUN HYE YOUNG
Birth : 1972 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Hye Young
Family Name : Pyun
Korean Name : 편혜영
ISNI : 0000000380038967
Works : 38

Yang Gui-ja
Birth : Unknown ~ Unknown
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Gui-ja
Family Name : Yang
Korean Name : 양귀자
ISNI : 0000000081869648
Works : 23

Baek Young ok
Birth : - ~ Unknown
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Young ok
Family Name : Baek
Korean Name : 백영옥
ISNI : 0000000047445526
Works : 4

Kim Seungok
Birth : 1941 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Seungok
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김승옥
ISNI : 0000000114805510
Works : 34

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The City: Modern Korean Literature Emerges from the City By Park Sungchang on Nov 09 2014 23:26:59 Special Edition 2011 City life is one of the most universal experiences of modern people, which is not to say that this experience represents all facets of modernity, but it is true that it does encompass its most problematic aspects. The city is a product and process, not to mention the driving force of modernization. It is axiomatic that modern Korean literature not only delves into the problems of the city, but also raises issues with modernity. The foremost tasks for studying modernity in Korean modern literature are analyzing how cities are constructed in modern Korean literature, and how much of the urban sensibility is manifested. Korean modern literature had its birth in the city. If industrialization and capitalism can be construed to be some of the most apparent factors for the changes in modern Korean history, then the city is a cradle of political and economic problems as manifested through its living spaces. A critical aspect of modernity in Korean literature is that the city is a complex construct and yet people still live there. Korean modern literature reveals how its aesthetics were formulated in the city context, by people of the city. The city shows that modernity is not some abstraction, but something tangible with specific images and experiences. In Korean modern literature the problems of the city do not belong to a conceptual or ideological domain, but are something that can be experienced through incidents discovered in specific texts. 1.Risky Reading Kim Kyung-uk Munhakdongne Publishing Corp. 2008, 293p, ISBN 9788954606752 2. Ashes and Red Pyun Hye-Young, Changbi Publishers, Inc. 2010, 260p, ISBN 9788936433734 3. Gente di Wonmidong Yang Gui-ja, Cafoscarina, 2006 4. Style Baek Young Ok Wisdomhouse Publishing Co., Ltd. 2008, 355p, ISBN 9788959132959 5. Mujin im Nebel Kim Seungok, Peperkorn, 2009

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