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Rev. August 2004

READING LIST

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN KOREAN LITERATURE

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Unless indicated, required of both MA and PhD students

*Required of Ph.D. students

In addition to the following English sources, students are required to read selected major works in the Korean original (both pre-modern and modern), and important critical studies published in monographs (in Korean) and journals (in both English and Korean). These will be determined in consultation with your advisor.

I. GENERAL

1. STUDIES

Cumings, Bruce. Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Eckert, Carter J., et al. Korea, Old and New: A History. Seoul: Ilchokak Publishers, 1990.

*Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, ed. Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.

*Lee, Peter H. Explorations in Korean Literary History. Seoul: Institute for Modern Korean Studies, Yonsei University. 1998.

------, ed. A History of Korean Literature. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

------. Korean Literature: Topics and Themes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965.

*Lee, Peter H., Donald Baker, et al . Sourcebook of Korean Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

*Lee, Peter H. and Wm. Theodore de Bary. Sources of Korean Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Nahm, Andrew C. Korea, Tradition & Transformation: A History of the Korean People. Elizabeth, N.J.: Hollym International Corp. 1988.

Pratt, Keith and Richard Rutt, eds. Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999.

*Shin, Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson, eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.

2. TRANSLATIONS

*Chung, Chong-wha. Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology, 1908-65. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995.

Lee, Peter H. Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1981.

------. Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

II. JOURNALS

Acta Koreana

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Journal of Asian Studies

Journal of Korean Studies

Korea Journal

Korean Literature Today

Korean Studies

The Review of Korean Studies

III. THEORY AND CRITICISM

Childers, Joseph and Gary Hentzi, eds. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Gibaldi, Joseph, ed. Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992.

Groden, Michael and Martin Kreiswrith. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Lentricchia, Frank and Thomas McLaughlin. Critical Terms for Literary Study. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Payne, Michael. A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

IV. RESEARCH REFERENCE

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

V. PRE-MODERN LITERATURE

1. STUDIES

Kim, Kichung. An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature: From ‘Hyangga’ to ‘P’ansori’. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.

Lee, Peter H. The Traditional Culture and Society of Korea: Art and Literature. Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 1975.

Park, Chan E. Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.

Pihl, Marshall R. The Korean Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, 1994.

2. TRANSLATIONS

Chung, Chong-wha, ed. Korean Classical Literature. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, 1989.

Lee, Peter H., ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

*------. A Korean Storyteller’s Miscellany: The P’aegwan Chapki of O Sukkwon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

------. Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Chosŏn Dynasty Poets. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.

*------. The Record of the Black Dragon Year. Seoul: Institute of Korean Culture, Korea University, 2000.

McCann, David R. Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Rutt, Richard. The Bamboo Grove: an Introduction to ‘Sijo’. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Rutt, Richard and Kim Chong-un, trs. Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels. Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch. 1979.

*So, Tae-sok. Myths of Korea, ed. Peter H. Lee. Somerset, N.J.: Jimoondang International; Seoul, Korea: Jimoondang Publishing Co., 2000.

VI. MODERN LITERATURE

1. STUDIES

Shin, Jeong-Hyun. The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998.

2. TRANSLATIONS

POETRY

Chung, Chong-wha, ed. The Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry. London; The Hague: East West Publications, 1986.

Lee, Peter H., tr. The Silence of Love: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980.

Pak, Mog-wŏl. Selected Poems of Pak Mogwol. Tr. Uchang Kim. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1990.

Sin, Kyŏng-nim. Farmer’s Dance: Poems by Shing Kyong-Nim. Trs. Brother Anthony of Taizé and Young-Moo Kim. Seoul: Tapke, 1999.

Sŏ, Chŏng-ju. Selected Poems of So Chongju. Tr.David McCann. New York: Columbia

University Press, 1989.

Variations: Three Korean Poets. Trs. Brother Anthony of Taizé and Young-Moo Kim. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2001.

NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES

Ch’ae, Man-sik. Peace Under Heaven. Tr. Chun Kyung-Ja. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.

*Cho, Chŏng-Rae. Playing with Fire. Tr. Chun Kyung-Ja. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1997.

Ch’oe, In-hun. The Daily Life of Ku-Poh the Novelist. Tr. Ki-Chang Hong. New York: Fremont Publications, 1985.

Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-Century Korean Stories. Tr. Peter H. Lee. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

The Golden Phoenix: Seven Contemporary Korean Short Stories. Tr. and ed. Suh Ji-moon. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.

Han, Mu-suk. Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea. Tr. Ok Young Kim Chang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

*Hwang, Suk-Young. The Shadow of Arms. Tr. Chung Kyung-Ja. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994.

*Hwang, Sun-wŏn. The Descendants of Cain. Trs. Suh Ji-moon and Julie Pickering. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe; UNESCO Publishing, 1997.

Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction. Trs. and eds. Marshall R. Pihl, Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.

Pak, Wan-sŏ. My Very Last Possession and Other Stories by Pak Wansŏ. Trs. Chun Kyung-Ja, et al. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

------. The Naked Tree. Tr. Yu Young-nan. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995.

The Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories. Tr. and ed. Suh Ji-moon. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

A Ready-made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction. Trs. Kim Chong-un and Bruce Fulton. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.

Reunion So Far Away: A Collection of Contemporary Korean Fiction. Seoul: Korean National Commission for Unesco, Korea Journal, 1994.

The Snowy Road and Other Stories: An Anthology of Korean Fiction. Ed. Hyun-jae Yee Sallee; trs. Hyun-jae Yee Sallee & Teresa Margadonna Hyun. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1993.

Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women. Eds. and trs. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. Seattle: Women in Translation, 1997.

*Yi, Mun-yŏl. The Poet. Trs. Chong-wha Chung & Brother Anthony of Taizé. London: Harvill Press, 1995.