Yi Sang: Selected Works

A ground-breaking retrospective of this major Korean writer of the modernist era, presented in English by award-winning poets and translators.

The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of 35 chapters written by leaders in the field, who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide

As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea’s manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the factory girl in Korean literature from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing the complex ways in which she has embodied

Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Chosŏn dynasty in 1392 and had apparently achieved its purpose by the mid seventeenth century. Until this important new study, however, the nature of Koryŏ society, the stresses induced by the new legislation, and society’s resistance

The long-awaited first collection of Lew's poems and intermedia pieces. Winner of the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry (2003) Runner-up for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry (2003) Since the early 1970s, the Korean American poet and scholar Walter K. Lew has produced innovative works ranging from