Taught by Brother Anthony (¾È ¼±Àç)
This course
will introduce students to works by a small number of writers, seen in the
broad context of Korean literary history.
There will be
7 class hours: June 28 (Tues), 29 (Wed), 30 (Thurs) July 4 (Mon), 5 (Tues), 6
(Wed), 7 (Thurs) at 9 – 10:20am in the Arrupe Building.
Day-by-day
topic:
Day 1.
Overview of the main events in modern Korean history as background to
everything. We shall start to read the most famous
Korean poems
Day 2.
Overview of the main writers of 20th-century Korean
poetry
Day 3. The
poetry of Ko Un, Shin Kyong-Nim, Kim Kwang-Kyu
Day 4.
Overview of the main writers of 20th-century Korean
fiction
Day 5. Overview
continued.
Day 6. Class
discussion of the last pages of Yi Mun Yol¡¯s The Poet.
Day 7.
Students¡¯ presentations of a Korean poem they have enjoyed reading.