376 pp. January 2004
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2627-7, $32.00
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Keywords: |
Asia
Korea
language
linguistics
literature |
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Readings in Modern Korean Literature
by Yung-Hee Kim; Jeyseon Lee
KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language
Published with the support of the Korea Foundation
Readings in Modern Korean Literature provides advanced students (those with at least four years of college-level training in Korean) with materials that will help them understand and appreciate modern Korean literary traditions as well as challenge them to use their Korean-language competence to the fullest extent. It offers the student a wide range of literary writing, including three different genres of poetry, short stories, and essays. Each piece is accompanied by a vocabulary glossary and notes, explanations of socio-cultural details, an introduction to the author, and a translation. The textbook is distinguished by a variety of exercises designed to enhance students’ proficiency in referential reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
Yung-Hee Kim is professor of Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai‘i. Jeyseon Lee is lecturer and supervisor of Korean language courses at the University of California, San Diego.
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