PREEMINENT SCHOLAR AND TRANSLATOR DAVID R. MCCANN PRESENTS AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS OWN TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS RANGING ACROSS THE MAJOR GENRES AND AUTHORS OF KOREAN WRITING - STORIES, LEGENDS, POEMS, HISTORICAL VIGNETTES, AND OTHER WORKS - AND A SET OF CRITICAL ESSAYS ON MAJOR THEMES. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL KOREAN LITERATURE ORIENTS THE READER TO THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE WRITINGS, THUS BRINGING INTO FOCUS THIS RICH LITERARY TRADITION. THE ANTHOLOGY OF TRANSLATIONS BEGINS WITH THE "SAMGUK SAGI", OR "HISTORY OF THE THREE KINGDOMS", WRITTEN IN 1145, AND ENDS WITH "THE STORY OF MASTER H ", WRITTEN IN THE LATE 1700S. THREE EXPLORATORY ESSAYS OF PARTICULAR SUBTLETY AND LUCIDITY RAISE INTERPRETIVE AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES THAT PROVIDE A CREATIVE, SOPHISTICATED FRAMEWORK FOR APPROACHING THE SELECTIONS.
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PREFACEP. XIA BRIEF HISTORY OF KOREAN LITERATURE TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURYP. 1AN ANTHOLOGY OF KOREAN LITERATUREP. 11THE SAMGUK SAGI (1145)P. 13"SONG OF THE ORIOLE"P. 14THE SAMGUK YUSA (1285)P. 15BOOK 1: TAN'GUN (ANCIENT CHOSON)P. 16BOOK 2: THE STORY OF LADY SUROP. 18BOOK 2: CH'OYONG AND MANGHAE TEMPLEP. 20BOOK 2: KING MUP. 23KORYO SONGSP. 25"WOULD YOU GO?"P. 26"SONG OF GREEN MOUNTAINS"P. 27HISTORY AS LITERATURE: THE POLITICAL AND CULTURAL TRANSITION FROM KORYO TO CHOSONP. 29THE SIJO EXCHANGE BETWEEN YI PANG-WON AND CHONG MONG-JUP. 32THE KORYOSA: THE HISTORY OF KORYOP. 33BOOK 2: THE TEN INJUNCTIONS AND THE DEATH OF WANG KONP. 33BOOK 117: BIOGRAPHIES: CHONG MONG-JUP. 38SONG OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVENP. 41EARLY CHOSON (1392-1598)P. 47SIJOP. 47SIJO SONGSP. 48"SONG OF THE FIVE FRIENDS" BY YUN SON-DOP. 51SIJO BY CHONG CH'OLP. 53SIJO ASCRIBED TO KISAENGP. 55KASAP. 58"SONG TO SPRING" BY CHONG KUG-INP. 59"SONG OF LONGING" BY CHONG CH'OLP. 62"SONG OF A HUMBLE LIFE" BY PAK IL-LOP. 66"MARRIED SORROW" BY HO NANSORHONP. 71HANMUN: POEMS AND PROSE IN CHINESEP. 75HANSI BY YI KYU-BO AND OTHERSP. 79HANSI BY ...(하략)
