Global Perspectives on Korean Literature

This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has been influenced by, as well as it has influenced, literatures of other nations. Beginning with the Korean version of the King Midas and his ass’s ears tale in the Silla dynasty, it moves on to discuss Ewa , what might be called the first missionary novel about Korea written by a Western missionary W. Arthur Noble. The book also considers the extent t