A Study of Hypertexts of «Kuunmong» 九雲夢, Focusing on «Kuullu» 九雲樓 / «Kuun'gi» 九雲記: Nine

ISBN-13: 9783631681213 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 278 str.

Dennis Wuerthner

Opis

This case study deals with late Choson dynasty works of narrative fiction modelled after Kuunmong (A Dream of Nine Clouds) by Kim Manjung (1637-1692). The focus lies on a novel extant in two manuscripts: Sinjung Kuullu (Revised augmented edition of the Nine Cloud Tower) and Sinjung chaeja Kuun'gi (Revised augmented caizi edition of the Story of Nine Clouds), short Kuullu/Kuun'gi. While this study specifically discusses late premodern hypertexts of Kuunmong, it is also concerned with a set of broader questions regarding the diffusion, circulation, reception, and creative transformation of literary products of different languages on the eve of modernity in Sino-centric East Asia.

Spis treści

On the rise and transformation of Kuunmong - Kuunmong and its hypertexts in late Chos n dynasty Korea - The "mosaic-hypertext" Kuullu/Kuun'gi - Hypotexts of Kuullu/Kuun'gi and the issue of readership awareness - Implications of dialogues with literary predecessors - Markets, mosaics, and Nine Clouds in motion.

O autorze

Dennis Wuerthner is a researcher and lecturer at the Korean Studies Institute of Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). He studies and translates premodern and contemporary Korean literature.