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The Korean Vernacular Story - Telling Tales of Contemporary Choson in Sinographic Writing (Hardcover)
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The Korean Vernacular Story - Telling Tales of Contemporary Choson in Sinographic Writing (Hardcover)
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As the political, economic, and cultural center of Choson Korea,
eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in flux: It was a
bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all
over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines how the
culture of Choson Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular narrative
form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language
of the time. The vernacular story (yadam) flourished in the
nineteenth century as anonymously and unofficially circulating
tales by and for Choson people. The Korean Vernacular Story focuses
on the formative role that the collection Repeatedly Recited
Stories of the East (Tongp'ae naksong) played in shaping yadam,
analyzing the collection's language and composition and tracing its
reception and circulation. Park situates its compiler, No Myonghum,
in Seoul's cultural scene, examining how he developed a sense of
belonging in the course of transforming from a poor provincial
scholar to an urbane literary figure. No wrote his tales to serve
as stories of contemporary Choson society and chose to write not in
cosmopolitan Literary Sinitic but instead in a new medium in which
Literary Sinitic is hybridized with the vernacular realities of
Choson society. Park contends that this linguistic innovation to
represent tales of contemporary Choson inspired readers not only to
circulate No's works but also to emulate and cannibalize his
stylistic experimentation within Choson's manuscript-heavy culture
of texts. The first book in English on the origins of yadam, The
Korean Vernacular Story combines historical insight, textual
studies, and the history of the book. By highlighting the role of
negotiation with Literary Sinitic and sinographic writing, it
challenges the script (han'gul)-focused understanding of Korean
language and literature.
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