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Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 54.99Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism and global modernity. Theodore Hughes begins by unpacking... more...
First Person Sorrowful
Bloodaxe Books 2012; US$ 13.11Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' When a writer has published as much as Ko Un has in the course of more than fifty years of writing, it is hard to know... more...
Using Korean
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 34.00A guide to Korean vocabulary and grammar for post-beginners. more...
Dirty Korean
Ulysses Press 2010; US$ 10.00GET D!RTY Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Korean with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: ?Cool slang ?Funny insults ?Explicit sex terms ?Raw swear words Dirty Korean teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of... more...
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 54.99This book is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, from the 1920s to the 1960s, which have an enduring and wide-ranging impact on Korea's cultural experiences of the past century. more...
Azaleas
Columbia University Press 2007; US$ 24.99Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known poets. His work is a delightful and sophisticated... more...
Early Korean Literature
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 29.99Preeminent 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... more...
Who Ate Up All the Shinga?
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 25.99Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability.... more...
Verbale Aspektualität im Koreanischen und im Deutschen
De Gruyter 1991; US$ 133.00Verbale Aspektualit T Im Koreanischen Und Im Deutschen: Mit Besonderer Ber Cksichtigung Der Aspektuellen Verbalperiphrasen (Linguistische Arbeiten) more...









