Readings in Modern Korean Literature

Informationen zum Autor Yung-Hee Kim is Professor of Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her publications include Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers and Readings in Modern Korean Literature (co-authored). Klappentext Readings in Modern Korean Literature provides advanced students (those with at least four years of college-level training in Korean) with materials that will help them understand and appreciate modern Korean literary traditions as well as challenge them to use their Korean-language competence to the fullest extent. It offers the student a wide range of literary writing! including three different genres of poetry! short stories! and essays. Each piece is accompanied by a vocabulary glossary and notes! explanations of socio-cultural details! an introduction to the author! and a translation. The textbook is distinguished by a variety of exercises designed to enhance students' proficiency in referential reading! writing! and comprehension skills. Zusammenfassung This title should provide advanced students (those with at least four years of college-level training in Korean) with materials that should help them understand and appreciate modern Korean literary traditions as well as challenge them to use their Korean-language competence to the fullest extent.

Product details

• Authors: Yung-Hee Kim, Yung-Hee (EDT)/ Lee Kim, Jeyseon Lee
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780824826277
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-2627-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Klear Textbooks in Korean Lang; Klear Textbooks in Korean Lang
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies