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The real modern : literary modernism and the crisis of representation in colonial Korea /

"Examines the critical and literary production of Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun, whose works confront the "crisis of representation" from loss of faith in language as a vehicle of meaningful reference to the world. Bridging literary and colonial studies, this re-re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanscom, Christopher P., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 357.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Paradox of empire: The crisis of representation in 1930s Seoul literary circles
  • Pak T'aewon's "representation, depiction, technique" and the colonial double bind
  • Modernism and hysteria in one day in the life of the author, Mr. Kubo
  • "Thoughts from a sickbed" and the critique of empiricist discourse
  • The irony of language in Kim Yujong's short fiction
  • Embodiments of speech: Yi T'aejun's lectures on composition
  • Lyrical narrative and the uncohering of modernity
  • Conclusion: Colonial modernism and comparative literary studies.