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This revised, expanded anthology, compiled and edited by pioneering scholar and translator Peter H. Lee, offers a representative selection of traditional Korean literature. Its rich and diverse selections, covering all genres and forms written in classical (literary) Chinese and the vernacular Korean language, were chosen for both their literary merit and socio-historical engagement with their times. Divided into four partsâverse, prose, fiction, and oral literatureârepresenting the four major branches of traditional Korean literature, it includes previously undervalued or suppressed texts such as Koryo love lyrics, shamanist narrative songs, and pâansoriâcreations composed in the mind, retained in memory, sung to audiences, and heard, not read. Every effort has been made to render Koreaâs literary past credibly and meaningfully. With its fresh translations and new examples of oral literature and fiction, this comprehensive, one-volume anthology will provide students and general read

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 3/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824866365, 978-0824866365
      ISBN10: 0824866363
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      Book Synopsis
      This revised, expanded anthology, compiled and edited by pioneering scholar and translator Peter H. Lee, offers a representative selection of traditional Korean literature. Its rich and diverse selections, covering all genres and forms written in classical (literary) Chinese and the vernacular Korean language, were chosen for both their literary merit and socio-historical engagement with their times. Divided into four partsâverse, prose, fiction, and oral literatureârepresenting the four major branches of traditional Korean literature, it includes previously undervalued or suppressed texts such as Koryo love lyrics, shamanist narrative songs, and pâansoriâcreations composed in the mind, retained in memory, sung to audiences, and heard, not read. Every effort has been made to render Koreaâs literary past credibly and meaningfully. With its fresh translations and new examples of oral literature and fiction, this comprehensive, one-volume anthology will provide students and general read

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