MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY KOREAN LITERATURE

This is one of the core courses within the "Korea" curriculum of the Corso di Laurea Magistrale in "Lingue e Civiltà dell'Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea".
The course contributes to the attainment of the formative goals of the Corso di Laurea in the area of humanities-related skills.
The course aims at helping students to obtain:
- A high level of critical knowledge and understanding of various socio-cultural phenomena relevant to Korea;
- The ability to produce oral and written texts related to the field of literary studies;
- A deeper knowledge of the social realities, ways of thinking, and textual cultures of the selected field;
- The ability to obtain competence and confident use of sources and research tools related to the selected field;
- The ability to apply their knowledge to the field of literary studies.

Knowledge and Understanding:
- Basic knowledge of theories and methods of Modern and Contemporary Korean literary production;
- In-depth knowledge of Korean historical and literary movements to be understood through such theories and methods;

Knowledge and understanding:
- Learn to apply theoretical and methodological tools acquired in the field of modern and contemporary Korean literature;
- Critical approach to field-related scholarship;
- Ability to read and analyze texts from the first half of the 20th century onwards.

Communication:
- Summarize and communicate into writing the gist of scholarly texts in a formally correct and effective manner.

Judgment ability:
- To be able to examine available sources and identify their arguments and theoretical assumptions;

Good knowledge of Premodern and Modern/Contemporary Korean Literature. Good knowledge of advanced Korean Language structures.

Lesson 1 - Introduction to the course and the historical-literary period
Lesson 2 - 1900-1945 The Onset of Modern Korean Literature - Yi Kwangsu e Kim Tongin
Lesson 3 - Realism and fiction; the contrast between 'Rural Literature' and the New Urbanism
Lesson 4 - Women's Contribution to the New Fiction in the Colonial Period
Lesson 5 - Readings of original language extracts from 1900-1945 authors.
Lesson 6 - 1945-1970 -The Advent of the '4.19 Generation' and of the 'Hangul Generation. The trauma of territorial division.
Lesson 7 - Writing Between Tradition and New Humanism
Lesson 8 - 1970-1990 - Literature between industrialization, territorial division, and identity quest (1)
Lesson 9 - Literature between industrialization, territorial division, and identity quest (2)
Lesson 10 - The Eighties - Between Realism and Resistance - expansion of the 'fictional space' (1)
Lesson 11 - The Eighties - Between Realism and Resistance - expansion of the 'fictional space' (2)
Lesson 12 - 1990-2000 - Writing Literature in a consumeristic society
Lesson 13 - Diaspora Literature
Lesson 14 - A Glimpse into North Korean Literature (1)
Lesson 15 - A Glimpse into North Korean Literature (2)

Detailed bibliographical information will be provided at the beginning of the course.

The exam will consist of a written test with open questions. It will also include a short conversation on the translated texts and a critique of a novel assigned to the student at the beginning of the semester.

Teacher-led classes and direct involvement in class. Students will be required to prepare translations into Italian of brief portions of Modern and Contemporary Korean Fiction by some of the main literary figures of the period. At the end of the semester, we aim to prepare anthological materials indicating the names of each translating contributor.

English

written and oral

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