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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780824864088
035			_a(DE-B1597)484402
035			_a(OCoLC)1021227113
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aPL984.E8 _bR43 1998
072		7	_aLIT008000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a895.7/30108
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
245	0	2	_aA Ready-Made Life : _bEarly Masters of Modern Korean Fiction / _ced. by Chong-un Kim.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[1998]
264		4	_c©1998
300			_a1 online resource (200 p.)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tTranslators’ Preface -- _tIntroduction -- _tA Society That Drives You to Drink -- _tThe Lady Barber -- _tA Tale of Rats -- _tThe Rotary Press -- _tAn Idiot’s Delight -- _tA Ready-Made Life -- _tThe Photograph and the Letter -- _tMama and the Boarder -- _tA Descendant of the Hwarang -- _tWife -- _tWhen the Buckwheat Blooms -- _tMystery Woman -- _tThe Haunted House -- _tThe Barbershop Boy -- _tPhantom Illusion -- _tThe Mule -- _tAbout the Translators
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aA Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and the best of them, masterpieces written mainly in the mid-1930s, display an impressive artistic maturity. Included among these authors are Hwang Sun-won, modern Korea's greatest short story writer; Kim Tong-in, regarded by many as the author who best captures the essence of the Korean identity; Ch'ae Man-shik, a master of irony; Yi Sang, a prominent modernist; Kim Yu-jong, whose stories are marked by a unique blend of earthy humor and compassion; Yi Kwang-su and Kim Tong-ni, modernizers of the language of twentieth-century Korean fiction; and Yi Ki-yúng, Yi T'ae-jun, and Pak T'ae-won, three writers who migrated to North Korea shortly after Liberation in 1945 and whose works were subsequently banned in South Korea until democratization in the late 1980s. One way of reading the stories, all of which were written during the Japanese occupation, is that beneath their often oppressive and gloomy surface lies an anticolonial subtext. They can also be read as a collective record of a people whose life choices were severely restricted, not just by colonization, but by education (either too little or too much, as the title story shows) and by a highly structured society that had little tolerance for those who overstepped its boundaries. Life was unremittingly onerous for many Koreans during this period, whatever their social background. In the stories, educated city folk fare little better than farmers and laborers.A Ready-Made Life will provide scholars and students with crucial access to the literature of Korea's colonial period. A generous opening essay discusses the collection in the context of modern Korean literary history, and short introductions precede each story. Here is a richly diverse testament to a modern literature that is poised to assume a long overdue place in world literature.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aKorean fiction _y20th century _vTranslations into English.
650		0	_aShort stories, Korean _vTranslations into English.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aChin-gôn, Hyôn _eautore
700	1		_aChong-un, Kim _eautore
700	1		_aChông-Hùi, Ch’oe _eautore
700	1		_aFulton, Bruce _eautore
700	1		_aHyo-sôk, Yi _eautore
700	1		_aKi-yông, Yi _eautore
700	1		_aKim, Chong-un _ecuratore
700	1		_aKwang-su, Yi _eautore
700	1		_aMan-shik, Ch’ae _eautore
700	1		_aSang, Yi _eautore
700	1		_aSang-sôp, Yôm _eautore
700	1		_aSun-wôn, Hwang _eautore
700	1		_aTo-hyang, Na _eautore
700	1		_aTong-in, Kim _eautore
700	1		_aTong-ni, Kim _eautore
700	1		_aT’ae-jun, Yi _eautore
700	1		_aT’ae-wôn, Pak _eautore
700	1		_aYo-sôp, Chu _eautore
700	1		_aYu-jông, Kim _eautore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824864088
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824864088
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824864088/original
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