Literature: Five Korean Short Stories
Course details
Course code
Q00021488Course date
Number of classes
5 sessionsTutor
Stephen SmithFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
OnlineLevel of study
Availability
Course overview
Course description
We will explore five short stories from the Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories, which is the recommended text for the course. These are:
Yi Sang, ‘Wings’
Pak Wansŏ, ‘Winter Outing’
Choi Suchol, ‘River Dark’
P’yŏn Hyeyŏng, ‘The First Anniversary’
Kim Aeran, ‘The Future of Silence’
These stories will introduce us to Korean literature before the Second World War to more recent stories from the last twenty years. Each will provide a window into the identity of Korean and the relationship between the traditional and modern in Korean society.
Each narrative will as well confront aspects of the human condition that are shared universally, while recognising others that are governed by the history and traditions of the Korean experience.
We will also be able to evaluate how Korean literature has reacted towards literary movements such as Realism, Modernism and Postmodernism, while we will recognise how the possibilities of the short story as a genre have been negotiated with generally by Korean writers.
Come and discover a new literature and its urgent voices.
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