Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea

Distant and Close Reading
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38339-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

Reihe: Routledge Digital Literary Studies

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature’s formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals. However, it has been difficult to substantiate this statement because periodicals, including magazines, were open to different groups of writers; various social, literary, religious, and cultural discourses; and dissimilar genres. The multi-level interactions between terms, knowledge, and writing styles in circulation unfolded at a larger scale at some times, and at other times in such an ordinary manner that one can hardly identify and synthesize them to make any sense. Employing not only conventional close reading, but also modes of distant reading developing out of cultural analytics, Lee investigates the specific ways in which patterns of social, semantic, and stylistic interactions in Korea’s major magazines configured three kinds of authorship, namely the “narcissistic author,” the “prophetic critic,” and the “everyday reviewer.” He rereads artist stories, leftist social discourses, religious cosmology, and joint reviews through quantitative analyses and offers an engaging account on the importance of repetitions in creating literary originality. This book extends periodical studies through cultural analytics and opens up a new horizon for the next generation of literary scholars seeking innovative experiments in a digital age.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Jae-Yon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Korean Periodicals and Formation of Modern Authorship

1. A Macroscopic Perspective on the 1920s World of Fiction

2. A Portrait of Modern Writers as Narcissistic Young Men in Ch’angjo

3. Thematic Mapping of Kaebyok and the Rise of the Prophetic Critic

4. The Everyday Critic's Unknown Language in Choson Mundan: Tracing Critical Terms through Machine Learning

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Jae-Yon Lee is Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature in the School of Liberal Arts at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, where he explores the intersections of periodical studies, author studies, and cultural analytics. He has published many works on Korean cases of digital literary studies in Korean and English and recently translated Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees into Korean. He currently collaborates on various projects of data-driven textual studies.