Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea - Distant and Close Reading

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature's formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals.

List of contents

Introduction: Korean Periodicals and Formation of Modern Authorship
1. A Macroscopic Perspective on the 1920s World of Fiction
2. A Portrait of Modern Writers as Narcissistic Young Men in Ch'angjo
3. Thematic Mapping of Kaeby¿k and the Rise of the Prophetic Critic
4. The Everyday Critic's Unknown Language in Chos¿n Mundan: Tracing Critical Terms through Machine Learning
Epilogue

About the author

Jae-Yon Lee is Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature in the School of Liberal Arts at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, where he explores the intersections of periodical studies, author studies, and cultural analytics. He has published many works on Korean cases of digital literary studies in Korean and English and recently translated Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees into Korean. He currently collaborates on various projects of data-driven textual studies.

Summary

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature’s formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals.

Product details

• Authors: Jae-Yon Lee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032383392
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238339-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Digital Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Korea, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Korean, c 1920 to c 1929, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Asian History, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000