The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea

by Christopher P Hanscom and Christopher P. Hanscom

The contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the present. In 1930s Korea, at a formative moment in these debates, a "crisis of representation" stemming from the loss of faith in language as a vehicle of meaningful reference to the world became a central concern of literary modernists as they operated under Japanese colonial rule. Christopher P. Hanscom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674073266
• ISBN13: 9780674073265
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"