#  KORLIT 214: Korean Writers and Their Books 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2019 

 

 

 

 W 3-5:45 Location:TBA

 [Si Nae Park](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/si-nae-park)

 This graduate seminar introduces students to Korean literature within an intricate transcultural and translingual matrix of other preexisting literary texts by focusing on writers and the books that served as their creative inspiration. Each week—with the exception of the first week focused on pre-20th-century Korea—students will read the whole or part of one recent monograph on Korean literature in the English language and a pair of literary works (one by a Korean writer in the original language, with the aid of a modern Korean rendition, and the other that was his or her “muse” in English translation) to conduct close reading, familiarize oneself with debates and research questions in current Korean literature scholarship, and contextualize the authors and their works in relevant ecology and culture of books. Students should have advanced knowledge of Korean.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Past Harvard Courses ](/course-categories/harvard-course)
- [ AY 2018/2019 ](/course-categories/ay-20182019)
- [ Spring 2019 ](/course-categories/spring-2019)