Korean Modern Literature
Courses
1. Master’s Program
This course focuses on select, controversial Korean authors from the Enlightenment Period through the 1970’s. The class will attempt at a deeper understanding of these authors’ ideologies and the characteristics of their novels.
In this course, modern, Korean,representative poets are selected and the elevant issues concerning their literary works, including biographical information, will be studied. The goal of this class is to compose and discuss theories about these poets by carefully examining the results and limitations of existing researches, as well as identifying future research topics.
The goal of this course is to explore modern Korean literary criticism from a historical perspective. Based on the achievements as well as limitations of modern Korean literary criticism that had been previously studied, the class will engage in deep analysis of specific works and discuss its findings. Additionally, the students will study research papers that compare and analyze the relationship between general theories of literature and the unique characteristics of Korean literature.
The focus of this course will be on gaining a general understanding of the major poets of the modern era of Korean poetry. Subjects of study will be the Enlightenment Period, the poets from the 1920s, the 1930s, and directly after the Korean War. Concentrating on the characteristics of the modern Korean poetry, students will discuss appropriate methods of critical analysis as well as research on the selected subjects which will, then, be presented in a report.
This course will allow students to examine important authors and works from the Enlightenment Period to the 1960s. Their studies will include delving into specific research me- thodologies, such as looking at basic concepts that are needed to interpret the poets or works from these periods or even attempting a new interpretative methods. Focusing on the characteristics of modern Korean novels, students will discuss appropriate procedures of analysis and research on the selected subjects. These results will then be reported in class.
2. Combined Master’s and Doctoral Program
In this course students will conduct their own research dealing in-depth with authors deemed important in literary history or uncovering worthwhile authors who have so far been ignored. The goal of the course is to comprehend the relationship between author and work from a variety of view-points and perspectives and to establish a methodology for studying authors.
This course aims to help students understand the socio-cultural contexts of Korean modern literature. This course offers to students the chances to re-experience the origin and evolution of the Korean modern literary works and to rethink our contemporary literature in comparison with that of another age.
In this course, students will examine various methods in literary criticism and weigh their possibilities and limitations, finally apply them to actual Korean modern literary works. Students will gain a broader view of the literary theories through treatment of Korean Modern literature.
This course focuses on comparative literary understanding of contemporary Korean literature. Rather than a specific influential source, the class will explore the meaning of subjects, motifs, ideologies and forms that are the mutual subjects of comparison in various literary works. Students will gain knowledge of the cultural history and an understanding of philosophy, and will present research on selected subjects.
This course is aims to help students understand and appreciate the Korean modern drama of various genres. To this end, we will train students to have a critical point of view concerning the forms of representation in Korean modern performing arts and visual arts. In the process, students will have a broad understanding of the meaning and value of each Korean modern drama text, and to gain a new perspective of the modern drama in the new media environment.
3. Doctoral Program
This course is a doctoral course. It studies the history of modern Korean poetry from the Enlightenment Period to the 1950s.The history of the modern Korean poetry will be divided into distinct periods and studied in depth. In addition, various issues, including schools of thoughts and specific poets, concerning current Korean poetry will be analyzed and examined. The students are expected to be the active moving force that pushes the class along by preparing presentations for each period and leading the class discussion. Through this course, the students will come to understand the literature and the historical contexts of the works as well as its interrelations with other genres.
The goal of this course is to find a new framework for the history of modern Korean novels while reexamining its development process, ideological history, and formal characteristics. The period that is covered in this class will be from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century.
This course arranges the literary criticism of modern Korean literature by period and examines the characteristics of each. This class will also tackle the challenge to reconcile traditional literary stylistic theory and modern genre theory. In order to accomplish this, students will prepare research presentations that provide evidence for the possibility of original critical theory within the gap between literary principles and actual criticism.
The focus of this course is modern Korean poetry. We will study the works themselves as well as the critical theory set forth by the poets and critics of the modern era. The students will concentrate on understanding and analyzing the work rather than on its historical context. Accordingly, our goal is not only to systematically understand critical theory, but at the same time to analyze specific works, preparing the foundation for balanced research.
This course will examine critical theories of modern Korean poetry and its unique characteristics. A variety of theoretical approaches to Korean poetry and their results, as well as the unique stylistic development of Korean poetry will be developed. Finally, the findings of such research will be presented in a manner of a formal seminar.
This course will study the critical theory of modern Korean novels. We will examine both the various theoretical approaches to the Korean novels as well as their, the novels’, stylistic development. Finally, the findings of our research will be presented and discuss in a form of a seminar.
This course will concentrate the authors who played an important role in the development of modern Korean literature from the Enlightenment Period through the 1960s. We will use traditional methods, such as the biographical method, the psychological method, and the socio-literary method, as well as approaching it from the angle of new criticism and the structural approach. Through this course,we will elucidate either the interrelations of author and work, or the author and period.
Generally, the final stage in the research of a literary work is how it is situated in the larger literary tradition. Accordingly, then, an understanding of the history of literature is important. From this perspective, this course studies the methods of describing the history of literature, the interrelation of the literary history and history of philosophy, as well as the connection between the history of literature and the history of society.
