The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing

by Si Nae Park

As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn 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 Chosŏn 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)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231195427
• ISBN13: 9780231195423
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"