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Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk : Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp by Dennis Wuerthner; Robert E. Buswell, Jr. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk : Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp about?

One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea. The present volume features an extensive study of Kim and the Kŭmo sinhwa, followed by a copiously annotated, complete English translation of the tales from the oldest extant edition. The translation captures the vivaciousness of the original, while the annotations reveal the work's complexity, unraveling the deep and diverse intertextual connections between the Kŭmo sinhwa and preceding works of Chinese and Korean literature and philosophy. The Kŭmo sinhwa can thus be read and appreciated as a hybrid work that is both distinctly Korean and Sino-centric East Asian. A translator's introduction discusses this hybridity in detail, as well as the unusual life and tumultuous times of Kim Sisŭp; the Kŭmo sinhwa' s creation and its translation and transformation in early modern Japa

Who reads Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk : Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp?

Author

Dennis Wuerthner; Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824882594

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Language Learning