CONTENTS
Preface = ⅲ
CONTENTS = ⅴ
Ⅰ. Historical Overview = 1
Development of Modern Korean Literature = 3
1. Introduction = 3
2. Literature of the Post-Liberation Period = 4
3. Literature of the Post-War Period = 7
4. Literature of the 1960s = 9
5. Literature of the 1970s = 11
6. Literature of the 1980s and the 1990s = 13
Post-War Literature of Korean = 17
1. Impact of the Korean War and Search for a New Start = 17
2. Characteristics of the Literature of the 1960s = 31
Ⅱ. On Poetry = 41
Poetry of Modernist Tendency in Korean Literature = 43
An Understanding of Modem Korean Poetry = 59
Ⅲ. On Novel = 71
Korean Novel and the Problem of Split Mentality = 73
1. Three Types of Novel Viewed from a Socio-Historical Perspective = 73
2. Three Types of Novel Viewed from the Perspective of Experiencing Subject = 78
3. New Generation of Writers in a Dilemma = 85
4. New Tasks = 88
Korean Novel in the Age of Industrialization = 91
1. National Literature and the World of Folktale = 91
2. Moebius Strip and Klein Bottle = 95
3. Literature and the Limits of Human Nature = 99
Ⅳ. Issues of Korean Literature = 103
Three Ways of Looking at Modem Korean Literature = 105
1. The "Notes" to the Normative = 105
2. Theory of Neo-Nationalist Literature = 107
3. Nationalism and Modernism = 115
4. The Idea of Absolute Reality = 127
5. On Receiving One's Due = 132
People/s Literature in Korea = 135
1. Advent of People's Literature = 135
2. Definition of People's Literature = 137
3. Literary Activities of the Intellectuals = 139
4. Significance of the Literary Journal Creative Works and Criticism = 141
5. Literature as an Autonomous Entity and as a Subordinate Entity = 143
6. People's Literature Conceived by the People = 144
7. Remaining Tasks = 146
8. Idea of Center and Margin = 147
Korean Literature and Postmodernism = 151
1. The Premodern and the Modern = 151
2. The First Type of the Modern = 155
3. The Second Type of the Modern = 162
4. The Modern and the Postmodern = 168
Index = 173
