Tales of the strange by a Korean Confucian monk = Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp / translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Dennis Wuerthner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Si-sŭp, 1435-1493, author.

Contributor:

Würthner, Dennis, 1981- translator, writer of added commentary, writer of introduction.

Series:

Korean classics library. Historical materials

Korean classics library: historical materials

Standardized Title:

Kŭmŏ sinhwa. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Korean fiction.

Genre:

Translations.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

ix, 388 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]

Summary:

"One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Biography of Master Maewŏltang (Maewŏltang sŏnsaeng chŏn) / by Yun Ch'unnyŏn

Account of a Chŏp'o Game at Manbok Temple (Manboksa chŏp'o ki)

Biography of Scholar Yi Who Peered over the Wall (Yi-saeng

kyujang chŏn)

Travel Record of a Drunken Excursion to Pubyŏk Pavilion (Ch'wiyu pubyŏkchŏng ki)

Gazetteer of the Southern Continent Yŏmbu (Namyŏmbuju chi)

Report of [Scholar Han] Attending a Banquet in the Dragon Palace (Yonggung puyŏn rok)

Written at the End of the First Collection [of Kŭmo sinhwa] (Sŏ kapchip-hu).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824882594

0824882598

OCLC:

1112129269