Ebook: Twentieth-Century Korean Literature

E-book, Edited by Brother Anthony, of Taizé; Translated by Youngju Ryu, 2001. — 85 p.Ли Нам-хо, У Чхандже, Ли Кванго, Ким Михьён. Корейская литература ХХ века (на англ. яз.)Contents:
1900 - 1945: The Rise of Modern Literature.
Two moderns: Yi Kwangsu and Kim Tong-in between enlightenment and art.
Elegies for a lost era: Kim Sowŏl and Han Yong-un.
Social consciousness and the rise of realist fiction.
Colonial pastorals: rural sketches in time of oppression.
Expansion of poetic imagination.
1945 - 1970: Liberation and the Korean War.
Abundance amid privation : the poetry of Sŏ Chŏngju.
Exploring nature and life: Yu Ch’ihwan and Pak Mog-wŏl.
Tradition and humanity: Kim Tongni and Hwang Sunwŏn.
Prose poetry and condensations of poetic language: Kim Suyŏng and Kim Ch’unsu.
Currents in fiction: political life and existential life.
1970 - 1990: Literature in an Industrializing Society.
The shadows cast by industrialization.
Continuing consequences of Korean division.
The expression of social concerns in poetry.
Women’s voices.
Explorations of existence and quests for new language.
Expansions of fictional space.
“The Era of Poetry” and deconstructions of language.
1990 - 2000: Literature in a Consumer Society.
Urban imagery and the renewal of lyric.
The self on shifting ground: fiction in a consumer society.