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Book SynopsisThe Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisŭp (1435–1493) offers an account of the most extraordinary figure of Korean literature and intellectual history. The present work narrates the fascinating story of a prodigious child, acclaimed poet, author of the first Korean novel, Buddhist monk, model subject, Confucian recluse and Daoist master. No other Chosŏn scholar or writer has been venerated in both Confucian shrines and Buddhist temples, had his works widely read in Tokugawa Japan and became an integral part of the North Korean literary canon. The nine studies and further materials presented in this volume provide a detailed look on the various aspects of Kim Sisŭp’s life and work as well as a reflection of both traditional and modern narratives surrounding his legacy. Contributors are: Vladimír Glomb, Gregory N. Evon, Dennis Wuerthner, Barbara Wall, Kim Daeyeol, Miriam Löwensteinová, Anastasia A. Guryeva, Sixiang Wang, and Diana Yüksel.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction Vladimír Glomb A Chronology of Key Biographical Events and Writings Gregory N. Evon “Thus I May Now Dare Explain My Actual Situation without Hiding Anything”—Autobiographical and Biographical Writings Dennis Wuerthner In the Vortex of Intellectual Change: Buddhist–Confucian Tensions in Memorializing Kim Sisŭp Gregory N. Evon Kim Sisŭp, the Ghost Story Teller: From Obscurity to the Screen Barbara Wall Kim Sisŭp and Daoist Schools Kim Daeyeol Dream Narratives Miriam Löwensteinová Commemoration in Early Chosŏn Political Culture: How Kim Sisŭp Became a Loyal Official Sixiang Wang Art, Word and the Art of the Word in Poems by Kim Sisŭp Anastasia A. Guryeva Kim Sisŭp: Paragon of Defiant Political Action Diana Yüksel Kim Sisŭp and His Place in Korean Confucianism Vladimír Glomb Index
