Extended Syllabus

(2013 2nd Semester)

Course Title Credit Class Time

Introduction to Korean Literature 3 Tues. & Thurs. 1:30-2:45

Course Number Enrollment Eligibility Classroom

KOS3013

TBA

Course Homepage: Name: Wayne de Fremery

https://sites.google.com/site/introkorea nlit/home
Telephone:

E-mail: wdefremery@gmail.com

Office: Xavier Hall 403 Office Hours: 10 am to noon (Tues., Wed., Thurs.)

. Course Overview
1. Description

In this course, students will be introduced to Korean literature and learn the fundamentals of critical reading and expository writing. The course will begin with readings from contemporary Korea (both North and South) and then move backward through time to explore some of Koreas earliest legends and creation myths. Important authors and genres from both the modern and premodern periods will be examined. Each unit will center on a small number of literary texts; historical materials and/or critical essays will supplement and contextualize these works. All readings will be in English. No previous knowledge of Korea or the Korean language is required.
2. Prerequisites

3. Course

Format (%) Discussion 65% Experiment/Practicum % Field study % Presentations 5% Other %

Lecture 30%
4. Evaluation (%)

mid-term Exam 25%

Final exam 25%

Quizzes %

Presentations %

Projects %

Assignments 25%

Participation 25%

Other %

. Course Objectives

See Course Overview Description.

. Course Format
(* In detail)

Class sessions will be discussion-based; you will be evaluated on weekly written assignments, participation in class discussions, two examinations, and one medium-length paper (10-12 pages).

. Course Requirements and Grading Criteria

Participation and response papers: 25% Short response papers will be due weekly (via e-mail) by 2 pm on Thursdays. No late response papers will be accepted. Active participation in class discussions is expected. Students will be required to make a short presentation about their final paper topic. Examinations: 25% each Two short exams (1hour) will be given. Final paper: 25% You will also be required to write one longer paper (10-12 pages). Final papers are due (via email) on June 19 by 5 pm. Late papers will be marked down one letter grade for every day late. An A paper will be well structured with a strong (i.e. interesting and clear) thesis supported by insightful observations. It is likely to present its argument in a unique and creative way. A B paper will also be well structured; its thesis will be clear but perhaps not very interesting. It will not present its argument in a unique and creative way. It will be the standard five paragraph essay stretched out over 10-12 pages. A C paper will not have a clearly stated thesis and will, as a result, ramble aimlessly. A D paper will make it clear that the student has not put in much effort. I rarely give failing grades on papers (unless they are more than 3 days late). Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are not required. They are provided to aid those wishing to better understand the history of a given period. These supplemental readings will be especially helpful when you compose your final papers. Korean words are to be Romanized using the McCune-Reischauer system as explicated by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. A link to the guidelines is provided on the course website.

. Course Policies

A Few Words about Academic Honesty Any work that you present or submit in this class must be your own. If you take an idea or a passage from a text without properly citing that text, you are plagiarizing. If you pass off someone elses work as your own, you are being dishonest. If, on any assignment, you plagiarize or cheat, you will fail the assignment and may automatically fail the course. Violating the letter or spirit of Sogangs regulations concerning academic honesty will result in disciplinary proceedings to determine your standing at the university.

. Materials and References

Bruce Fulton and Youngmin Kwon, ed., Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). David R. McCann, ed., The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). Marshall Pihl, The Korean Singer of Tales (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1994). David R. McCann, Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Kevin ORourke, The Book of Korean Shijo (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002). Lady Hyegyng, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyng, translated by Jahyun Kim Haboush (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1996).
. Course Schedule
(* Subject to change) Learning Objectives Topics Class Work (Methods) 9.3 9.5 Materials (Required Readings)

Begin critical interrogation of Korean literature; begin learning the fundamentals of writing about Korean literature The meanings of literature / writing in Korean studies Lecture/ discussion

Week 1

Michael Radich, The Response Paper, in A Students Guide to Writing in East Asian Studies (n.p.), 7583.

Assignments

Learning Objectives

To gain a basic understanding of narrative styles and themes in North and South Korean fiction on the cusp of the new millennium

Topics Class Work Week 2 9.10 9.12 Materials (Required Readings) (Methods)

Literary topics and narrative perspectives Discussion / lecture Han Ung-bin, Second Encounter, (1999) trans. Stephen Epstein, Acta Koreana 5, no. 2 (July 2002): 8191. *Stephen Epstein, On Reading North Korean Short Stories on the Cusp of the New Millennium," Acta Koreana 5, no. 1 (January 2002): 3350. Kim Yng-ha, Lizard, (1997) in Modern Korean Fiction, 272282; Dafna Zur, Interview with Kim Young-ha, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 1 (2007): 2730. *Kim Yng-ha, This Tree of Yours, (1998) trans. Dafna Zur, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 1 (2007): 925. *Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, rev. ed. (n.p.: Basic Books, 2001), 305-441. Response Paper To begin investigation of issues related to memory, gender, politics, and literary form in late-twentieth-century South Korean Motherhood and memories of the democracy movement Discussion/ lecture Choe Yun, The Gray Snowman, (1992) in Modern Korean Fiction, 345370; Kim Hye-sun (b. 1955) in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, 241249; Kim Hye-sun in Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets, ed. Peter Lee (Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2005), 183200. Response Paper To investigate how memory is narrated differently by men and women in South Korea after the Korean War Memory and gender / the poetry of protest Discussion/ lecture Kim Chi-ha (b. 1941), Ko n (b. 1933), and Kim Su-yng (1921 1968) in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, 148 151, 182189, 208224; Kang n-gyo (b. 1945) in Echoing Song, 6878, and The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry,

Assignments Learning Objectives Topics Week 3 9.17

Ch'us k

Class Work (Methods)

Materials (Required Readings)

Assignments Learning Objectives Topics Week 4 9.24 9.26 Class Work (Methods) Materials (Required Readings)

225230. Cho Chng-nae, Land of Exile, (1981) trans. Marshall Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, ed. Marshall R. Pihl et al. (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993), 200243. Pak Wan-s, Winter Outing, (1975) trans. Marshall Pihl, Land of Exile, 150164. *Bruce Cumings, Koreas Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997), 299393.
Assignments

Response Paper To discuss the literary geographies of the Korean War and Koreas experience with colonial modernity Boundaries and blame / the geographies of identity Discussion/ lecture Hwang Sun-wn, Cranes, (1953) trans. David McCann, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 1 (2007): 305312; David McCann, On Cranes, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 1 (2007): 313316; Hwang Sun-wn, Course Sand, (1953) in Modern Korean Fiction, 135-148. *Han Sr-ya, The Jackals, (1951) in Han Srya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK, trans. Brian Myers (Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program Cornell University, 1994), 157188. *Bruce Cumings, Koreas Place in the Sun: A Modern History, 237 298. Response Paper To gain a basic understanding of the expressive territories claimed by colonial-era writers Poetic self-portriats, Yi Sang, the literary economies of colonial-era writers Discussion/ lecture Yi Hyo-sk, When the Buckwheat Blooms, (1936) in Modern Korean Fiction, 8596. *Kim Tong-ni, The Shaman Painting, (1936) in Modern Korean Fiction, 3558. Yun Tong-ju (19181945), S Chng-ju (19152000), No Chn-

Learning Objectives

Topics Class Work (Methods) Week 5 10.1

Foundation Day

Materials (Required Readings)

Assignments

Learning Objectives

Week 6 10.8 10.10

Topics Class Work (Methods)

Materials (Required Readings)

myng (19121957), and Yi Sang (19101937) in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, 6483, 88109.
Assignments

Response Paper To continue discussion of the literary geographies of colonial modernity in Korea / gain a basic understanding of the expressive territories claimed by colonial-era writers Nim and the literary economies of colonial-era writers Discussion/ lecture Yi Sang, Wings (1936) in Modern Korean Fiction, 66-84. *Yi Sang, Lingering Impressions of a Mountain Village: A Few Paragraphs from a Journal, (1935) trans. John Frankl, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 2 (2008): 331345. *John Frankl, Marking Territory: Writing against Nation-based Identity in Yi Sangs Lingering Impressions of a Mountain Village, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 2 (2008): 347358. Kim Tong-in, Potato, (1925) in Modern Korean Fiction, 13-34. Kim So-wl (19021934), selections from Azaleas: A Book of Poems, trans. David McCann (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Response Paper Review content covered to date

Learning Objectives

Topics Class Work (Methods) Week 7 10.15 10.17 Materials (Required Readings)

Assignments

Learning Objectives

Topics Week 8 Class Work (Methods) Materials (Required Readings) Assignments

10.24

First Examination To discuss the ideologies of love, literature, and Korea at the turn of the twentieth century Han Yong-un (18791944), selections from Everything Yearned For: Manhaes Poems of Love and Longing, trans. Francisca Cho

Learning Objectives

Topics

(Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2005) Francisca Cho, Manhae and the Art of Poetry, in Everything Yearned For, 103134. *Michael E. Robinson, Koreas Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007), 5699. Yi Kwang-su / definitions of love, literature, and Korea
Class Work Week 9 10.29 10.31 Materials (Required Readings) (Methods)

Discussion/ lecture Yi Kwang-su, What is Literature? (1916) trans. Jooyeon Rhee, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 4 (2011): 293 313. Yi Kwang-su, From Tokyo to Seoul, (1917) trans. Ellie Choi, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 4 (2011): 337 346. *Yi Kwang-su, Record of Travels in the Diamond Mountains, (1922) trans. Ellie Choi, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 4 (2011): 347350. *Ann Sung-hi Lee, Introduction, in Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature: Mujng, ed. and trans. Ann Sung-hi Lee (Ithaca, New York: East Asia Program Cornell University, 2005), 521. Response Paper To discussion of Korean performance traditions and vernacular literature in premodern Korea / To gain a basic understanding of gender roles, moral attitudes, and political concerns, in the Chosn dynasty Performance, performativity, and pansori

Assignments

Learning Objectives

Topics Week 10 11.5 11.7 Materials (Required Readings) Class Work (Methods)

Discussion/ lecture John Whittier Treat, Introduction to Yi Kwang-sus Maybe Love, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 4 (2011): 315 320. Yi Kwang-su, Maybe Love, (1909) trans. John Whittier Treat, Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 4 (2011): 321 327. *Michael E. Robinson, Koreas Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007), 8-55. Marshall Pihl, The Korean Singer of Tales, 110, 3154.

Assignments

Response Paper To continue discussion of Korean performance traditions and vernacular literature in premodern Korea Performance, performativity, and sijo Discussion/ lecture Marshall Pihl, The Korean Singer of Tales, 8993, 123150. Kevin ORourke, The Book of Korean Shijo, 124. *Eckert et al., Korea Old and New (Seoul: Ilchokak Publishers, 1990), 155-230. Response Paper To continue discussion of Korean performance traditions and vernacular literature in premodern Korea / To understand the orthographic inventions of Hunmun Chngm Confucian ideals and gender, literary / historical narration / Hunmin Chngm Discussion/ lecture Kevin ORourke, The Book of Korean Shijo, 159198. *Pak Chi-wn (17371805), The Story of Master H, in Early Korean Literature, 8696. Yi Pang-wn v. Chng Mong-ju, the biography of Chng Mong-ju, and selections from Song of the Dragons Flying to Heaven in Early Korean Literature, 32, 3845; Preface, Postscript, Choe Malli: Opposition to the Korean Alphabet, in Sources of Korean Tradition: Volume One: From Early Times through the Sixteenth Century, eds. Peter H. Lee and Wm. Theodore de Bary (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 294296 Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Introduction, in The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure, ed. Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), 110. *David McCann, "Song of the Dragons Flying to Heaven: Negotiating History" in Early Korean Literature, 123139. *Ki-Moon Lee, The Inventor of the Korean Alphabet, in The Korean Alphabet, 1130. *Eckert et al., Korea Old and New, 95131. Response Paper

Learning Objectives

Week 11 11.12 11.14

Topics Class Work (Methods) Materials (Required Readings)

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Learning Objectives

Topics Class Work (Methods)

Week 12 11.19 11.21 Materials (Required Readings)

Assignments

Learning Objectives

To discuss the truth claims of Koreas creation myths / how to construct truth claims in a twenty-first century academic paper about Korean literature Samguk yusa, Tangun, Lady Suro, Chyong, King Mu / writing about literature Discussion/ lecture Prologue to the Samguk yusa; The stories of Tangun, Lady Suro, Chyong, King Mu in Early Korean Literature, 1524. David McCann, "Performance and Korean Sijo Verse: Negotiating Difference" in Early Korean Literature, 139161. *David McCann, "Ch'yong and Manghae Temple: A Parable of Literary Negotiation" in Early Korean Literature, 99123. *Hyung Il Pai, Constructing Korean Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean StateFormation Theories (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000), 121, 5777. Michael Radich, General Writing Skills, in A Students Guide to Writing in East Asian Studies, 1574.

Topics Class Work (Methods) Week 13 11.26 11.28 Materials (Required Readings)

Assignments

Learning Objectives Week 14 12.3 12.5 Topics Class Work (Methods) Materials (Required Readings) Assignments

To discuss the truth claims and how to make them in a twenty-first century academic paper about Korean literature Academic writing strategies / review of materials and perspectives covered Discussion/ lecture Michael Radich, General Writing Skills, in A Students Guide to Writing in East Asian Studies, 99135. Presentation on Final Paper Topics To discuss the truth claims and how to make them in a twenty-first century academic paper about Korean literature Academic writing strategies / review of materials and perspectives covered Presentation on Final Paper Topics

Learning Objectives Week 15 12.10 12.12 Topics Class Work (Methods) Materials (Required Readings)

Assignments

Presentation on Final Paper Topics; Second Examination To learn to write a persuasive argument about a Korean literary text

Learning Objectives

Week 16 12.18

Topics Class Work (Methods) Materials (Required Readings) Assignments

Final Paper Due on Dec. 18 at 5:00pm

. Special Accommodations

Students with special needs are requested to contact me privately. I will do my utmost to help in any way that I can.

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