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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTION
A. KOREAN INTEREST IN NATIONAL LITERATURE...1
1. KOREAN LANGUAGE AND KOREAN NATIONALISM...1
2. UNDER JAPANESE COLONIALISM...3
3. AFTER LIBERATION...4
B. GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND....8
1. GEOGRAPHIC SETTING...8
2. HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT...9
C. KOREAN LANGUAGE, SCRIPTS, AND LITERARY FORMS...13
1. NATURE OF THE KOREAN LANGUAGE...13
2. CHINESE AS THE LITERARY LANGUAGE OF KOREA...14
3. DEVELOPMENT OF KOREAN SCRIPTS...16
4. KOREAN LITERARY FORMS...18
CHAPTER II. THE THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD AND UNIFIED
SILLA (FROM THE BEGINNING TO 918 A.D.)
A. HANMUN,OR LITERATURE IN CHINESE...22
1.INTRODUCTION OF CHINESE CHARACTERS...22
2. KING YURI AND HIS ''SONG OF THE YELLOW BIRDS'' / 22
3. THE STELE OF KING KWANGGAET'O...23
4. EARLY HISTORY...23
5. U1CHI MUNDOK AND HIS ''VERSE FOR THE SUI GENERAL''...24
6. QUEEN CHINDOK'S ''SONG OF PEACE''...25
7. WONHYO AND RECONCILIATION...25
8. UISANG'S MAGIC MANDALA...28
9. ''WISH FBR THE UNIQUE VEHICLE''...31
10. SO1 CH'ONG'S ''ADINONITION TO THE KING OF FLOWERS''...32
11. HYECH'O'S TRAVEL JOURNAL...32
12. OTHER KOREANS IN T'ANG CHINA...34
13. THE OCCULT WRITINGS OF TOSON...34
14. CH'OE CH'I-WON AND HIS CASSIA GARDEN...35
B. VEMACU1AR POETRY...36
1. THE DAWN OF KOREAN POETRY...36
2. KING MU'S PROPHETIC DITTY...37
3. WO1RNYONG ON THE UNAVOIDABILITY OF DEATH...38
4. HUIMYONG'S PRAYER...39
5. "SONG OF CH'OYONG''...40
6. "SONG OF CHONG-UP"...41
7. SIJO ATTRIBUTED TO HISTORICAL FIGURES...42
CHAPTER III. THE KORYO PERIOD (918-1392)
A. HANMUN,OR LITERATURE IN CHINESE...46
1. BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF THE TENTH AND E1EVENTH CENTURIES / 46
2. THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES: POLITICAL INSTABILITY
AND THE MATURITY OF KORYO CULTURE...49
3. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: NEO-CONHLCIANISM CHALLENGES
BUDDHIST DOMINANCE...59
B. VERNACULAR LITERATURE...71
1. KYUNYO'S HYANGGA... 72
2. "LAMENTS FOR TWO GENERALS'' BY KING YEJONG...74
3. KYONGGI-HAYO-GA...75
4. "SONG OF CHONG KWAJONNG''...82
5. ''SONG OF CH'OYONG''...83
6. POPULAR SONGS...87
7. KASA: HYEGUN AND THE ''OX HERDING SONG''...105
8. SIJO LYRICISM / 115
CHAPTER IV. EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY (1392-1494)
A. HANMUN, OR LITERATURE IN CHINESE...121
1. ARCHITECTS OF THE DYNASTY UNDER T'AEJO, CHONGJONG AND
T'AEJONG (1392-1418)...121
2. THE GOLDEN AGE UNDER KING SEJONG AND HIS SUCCESSORS
OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY...127
B. VERNACULAR LITERATURE...142
1. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE DYNASTY TO THE INVENTION
OF HAN GUL,1392-1443...142
2. CORRECT SOUNDS FOR TEACHING THE PEOPLE...154
3. SONGS OF THE DRAGONS...162
4. SONGS OF THE MOON" AND OTHER BUDDHIST TEXTS...180
5. SIJO LYRICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MURDER OF THE BOY-KING...194
6. CHONG KUG-IN AND THE ''SONG OF SPRING''...202
CHAPTER V. INTERNAL DISORGANIZATION AND JAPANESE INVASION 1494-1608
A. HANMUN, OR LITERATURE IN CHINESE...214
1. THE TYRANNY OF YONSAN-GUN...215
2. CHUNGJONG: REFORM AND REACTION...217
3. MYONGJONG AND SONJO: FACTIONALISM, ESCAPISM AND WAR...221
B. VERNACULAR LITERATURE...246
1. CHO KWANG-JO AND KIM AN-GUK: POLITICS AND PEDAGOGY...246
2. HWANG CHIN-I AND HER ADMIRERS...247
3. SCHOLARS IN RETIREMENT...254
4. CHONG CH'OL, GREATEST OF KOREAN POETS...284
5. VOICES FROM THE DEMIMONDE AND FROM THE WOMEN'S QUARTERS...336
6. HO KYUN AND THE FIRST NOVELETTE...343
7. THE WINDS OF WAR...345
CHAPTER VI. ECONOMIC EXHAUSTION AND LITERARY FERMENT (1609-1724)
A. HUNMUN, OR LITERATURE IN CHINESE...392
1. CONFUCIANISTS AT COURT AND HEDONISTS IN EXILE / 393
2. THE KIM CLAN OF ANDONG...400
3. BELLETRISTS AND POSITIVISTS...404
B. VERNACULAR LITERATURE...410
1. LAMENTS OF THE EXILED...411
2. SIJO OF THE MANCHU INVASIONS...418
3. YUN SON-DO, GREATEST OF SIJO POETS...421
4. WINE AND RESIGNATION...427
5. POPULAR BUDDHISM...429
CHAPTER VII. LATE CHOSON DYNASTY (17241-1896):
INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL, POPU1ARIZATION AND DECAY
A. HUNMUN, OR LITERATURE IN CHINESE...432
1. THE POPU1AHZATION OF POETRY IN CHINESE...433
2. BROAD-RANGING SCHOLARSHIP...434
3. PAK CHI-WON AND THE SHOD STORY...436
4. THE FOUR GREATS OF YONGJONG...437
5. CHONG YAG-YONG AND HIS INTIMATES...439
6. MORE SCHOLARS AND POETS...444
7. CH'OE CHE-U AND EASTERN LEARNING...447
8. THE PRINCE REGENT...450
CHAPTER VIII.CONCLUSION: CHARACTERISTICS OF KOREANC1ASSICAL LITERATURE
A. A LITERATURE OF ESCAPE...508
B. A LITERATURE OF PROTEST...510
C. A LITERATURE OF THE SUPERNATURAL...511
D. A LITERATURE OF DIDACTICISM...514
E. A LITERATURE OF FEMININITY AND PASSIVITY...515
F. A LITERATURE OF POETRY AND MUSIC...518
G. A LITERATURE OF ME1ANCHOLY AND PESSIMISM...519
H. A LITERATURE OF ANGUISH...521
I. A LITERATURE OF ETHNIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND NATIONALISM...522
BOOKS FOR ADDITIONAL READING IN WESTERN LANGUAGES...526
INDEX...529 |
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