Oral Literature of Korea

by Peter H. Lee (Compiler), Seo Daeseok (Editor)

From the dust jacket: "Encompassing foundation myths, legends, folktales, classical archival records, shamanist narrative, p'ansori mask dance plays, and puppet play, this anthology represents the oral literature of Korea in accurate and readable translation for the first time." xiii pp. +285 pp.

385 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Peter H. Lee (1929-) was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.A. from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his M.A. from Yale in 1953. Lee went on to study various languages and comparative literatures at universities in Switzerland, Italy, England and Munich, Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilian University in 1958. After holding positions at Columbia, Hawaii, and UC Berkeley, Lee came to UCLA in 1987 to begin his distinguished teaching career in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures as a professor of Korean and comparative literature. Professor Lee is an academic pioneer, credited with single-handedly developing the field of Korean literature, especially in a comparative context, in the West. He is the author of 16 books and numerous articles.

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