Sumários

Genres of Korean Literature

2 Maio 2018, 14:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Korea: Silla writings in Chinese

Koryŏ songs and writings in Chinese

Choson Eulogies, sijo and kasa

  • Kim, Hunggyu, and Robert J. Fouser. 2015. Understanding Korean literature. London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge
  • Lee, Peter H. 2009. A history of Korean literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lee, Peter H. 1981. Anthology of Korean literature: from early times to the nineteenth century. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.



Korea: Foudation Myths

30 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Foundation Myths

Myths and today's Korea
Understanding Korean Myths

  • Choi, Won-Oh. 2008. An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology. Leiden: BRILL.
  • Hwang, Pʻae-gang. 2006. Korean myths and folk legends. Fremont, Calif: Jain Pub. Co.
  • Lee, Peter H. 2009. A history of Korean literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Korean literature: Buddhism and the Hwarang class; the Hyangga.

23 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

buddhism and the Hwarang 花郞 (화랑)class 

  • De Bary, William Theodore. 2008. Sources of East Asian tradition. 1, 1. New York: Columbia University Press.

  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Anne Walthall. 2014. East Asia: a cultural, social, and political history. Boston, MA : Wadsworth, [Place of publication not identified] : Cengage Learning.

  • Kim, Hŭng-gyu, and Robert J. Fouser. 2015. Understanding Korean literature. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

  • Kim, Kichung. 2015. An introduction to classical Korean literature: from hyangga to p’ansori. London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge. 

Korean literature: from oral to written literature/forms, prosody and themes

18 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Korea and the question of language 

Sejong's most important achievements

The Songs of the Flying Dragons 

Literature: 6 stages of historical development 


  • Lee, Peter H. 2009. A history of Korean literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lee, Peter H., and Wm. Theodore De Bary. 1997. Sources of Korean tradition. New York: Columbia University Press.

Korean literature: from oral to written literature/forms, prosody and themes.

16 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Historical background

Cultural Contact Across Euroasia
Three Kingdoms
The Stele of Gwanggaeto
Samguk Sagi
Samguk Yusa

  • De Bary, William Theodore. 2008. Sources of East Asian tradition. 1, 1. New York: Columbia University Press, pp.574-576
  • Kim, Hung-gyu. 1997. Understanding Korean literature. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 7-16 
  • Lee, Peter H. 2000. Korean literature: topics and themes. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Books on Demand.
  • Lee, Peter H. 2009. A history of Korean literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-51.