2017-1 Critical Reading of Korean Classics II

About the Course

• Course Title: Critical Reading of Korean Classics II
• Professor: Shin Jeong-su[text@aks.ac.kr]
• Classroom: Room 202

• Description:

Much European economic history and Japanese historian has viewed the East and the Choseon as static or backward that seeing in its institutions which have prevented modernisation. This class challenges European rise and Japanese exceptionalism. this class take the classical humanism of the Korean civilization to retrieve examples of traditional commercial customs and illustrate indigenous developments.

• Course Material:

∙ Peter H. Lee. A History of Korean Literature. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. ∙ http://www.seelotus.com/frame_g.htm

Sessions

No	Lecture	Texts
1	A History of Korean Literature	Summary
2	Introduction (pp. 1-14)
3	Chap.1. Language, forms, prosody, and themes (pp. 15-51)	[1] [2]
4	Chap. 2. From oral to written literature (pp.52-66)	[ ]
5	衿陽雜錄 Miscellaneous Records of Kŭmyang - Miscellaneous Notes concerning Kŭmyang	[ ]
6	Part I. A Farming Household 農家
7	Crop Varieties Early-ripening Rice	[ ]
8	晚稻 Late-ripening Rice	[ ]
9	Beans 宿乙里黍잘으리기장 Chalūri kichang (Millet) Autumn Barley
10	Conversations with the Farmers 農談二
11	Chapter 3: Farmers’ Responses 農者對三
12	Chapter 4: Distinguishing the Various Winds 諸風辨四
13	Chapter 5. Proper Seed Grains 種穀宜五
14	Farming Songs 選農謳
15	The Final Class and Evaluation