KORE 311: Modern Korean Literature in Translation

KORE 311-DL4: Modern Korean Lit Translation
(Spring 2025)

Online

Section Information for Spring 2025

KORE 311 - DL4: Modern Korean Lit Translation

 Reading Han Kang 

Read Hang Kang, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature winner's representative works, Human Acts, The Vegetarian, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. This course examines the current landscape and experiments in Korean literature through Han Kang's works and explores the specificity of modern Korean fiction's style, theme, and aesthetics. 

KORE 311-DL4 is an online asynchronous section.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Offers an overview of South Korean literature in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Examines the literary representations of modern Korean histories and investigates the origins and evolvement of modern Korean literary genres. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Literature
Recommended Prerequisite: ENGH 101; appropriate placement score; or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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