The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing
Si Nae Park, "The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing"
English | ISBN: 0231195427 | 2020 | 328 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 0231195427 | 2020 | 328 pages | PDF | 12 MB
As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea, eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in flux: It was a bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time.
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