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A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany

A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany
Title Sub
The P'Aegwan Chapki of Eo Sukkwon
Author
Eo Sukgwon
Co-Author
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Translator
Peter Lee
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published Year
1989
Country
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Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Supplementary Work in Chinese

Original Title
패관잡기(稗官雜記)
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Paegwanjapgi(lchjwakch)
ISBN
9780691067711
Page
-
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Eo Sukgwon
  • Birth : Unknown ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : historical figure
  • First Name : Sukgwon
  • Family Name : Eo
  • Korean Name : 어숙권
  • ISNI : 0000000473515187
  • Works : 3
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 815 어숙권 패-피 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

With his annotated translation of P'aegwan chapki by O Sukkwon (fl. 1525-54), Peter Lee orients his readers in the historically and culturally revealing genre of literary miscellany chapki that flourished in Yi Korea from the fifteenth century onward. A precursor of narrative fiction, chapki employed a first-person viewpoint to present not only biographical and autobiographical information but also critiques of poetry, character sketches, random jottings, and tales. Lee's introduction discusses the rhetorical devices, style, and structure of The Storyteller's Miscellany then analyzes favored topics in the literary miscellany as it was generally practiced throughout East Asia and particularly in O Sukkwon's Korean work. Lee finds that literary miscellany, as opposed to formal and canonical East Asian prose genres, was best suited to the presentation of the self. In his study he discusses how a narrator's critical stance and creation of lifelike characters in an eyewitness style contributed to the development of narrative fiction.