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SUKHYANG?S TALE & SUGY?NG?S TALE IBD

ANONYMOUS AUTHORS / TAE SOO SOHN / WON CHUNG
HOMA & SEKEY BOOKS
08 / 2023
9781622461141
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Sinopsis

áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááSukhyangâÇÖs Tale, known as one of the masterpiece womenâÇÖs narratives in the 17th century of old Korea, evolves around the love story of Sukhyang and Yi SÅÅn, which takes place in heaven and again on earth. It deals with stories from SukhyangâÇÖs ordeals of being separated from her parents during a bandit riot to her reunion with, and marriage to, Yi SÅÅn before ascending to heaven together. A dualistic world-view, in which the real and the surreal elements coexist, is portrayed through the close bond between the lovers under the context of predestined ordeals and happiness. áSugyÅÅngâÇÖs Tale, a love story between SugyÅÅng and SÅÅnâÇÖgun - being categorized as a romance novel with features and basic plots similar to SukhyangâÇÖs Tale - has a tragic twist. SugyÅÅngâÇÖs Tale does not formalize romantic love of happy ending but portrays more the anguish of the times while taking the form of a fantasy. Nevertheless, the two novels commonly explore the difficulty of finding true love and how a woman, left at a disadvantage in society, faces severer ordeals as she has to face the absurdities of a medieval ChosÅÅn society defined by gender discrimination and Neo-Confucian ethics.ááSohn Tae-soo, who is teaching translation at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, is a Korean-to-English translator, specializing in the sector of the Korean studies and academic papers, among others. Won-Chung Kim is a professor of English Literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea, where he teaches contemporary American poetry, ecological literature, and translation. Christopher Merrilláhas published seven collections of poetry, includingáWatch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.