Global Perspectives on Korean Literature

Wook-Dong Kim is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. Wook-Dong Kim currently teaches at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea. His research interests range widely from literature to literary theory and translation studies. His major scholarly books include The Edge of Nothing: An Existentialist Reading of William Faulkner, Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek: Five Readings, and Translations in Korea: Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan). In addition, he is a professional literary translator who has translated many English classic novels into Korean.

1. The King Midas Tale in Ancient Korea.- 2. W. Arthur Noble’s Ewa: An Intergeneric Novel.- 3. Jack London and Korea.- 4. Pike’s Our Little Korean Cousin and New’s When I Was a Boy in Korea.- 5. Soon Hyun as a Man of Letters.- 6. Thomas Wolfe and Younghill Kang: A Literary Adoption.- 7. No-Yong Park’s Chinaman’s Chance: A Fictionalized Autobiography.- 8. Gunsam Lee’s The Eternal Thread as a Tragedy.- 9. Younghill Kang’s Murder in the Royal Palace as a Political Satire.- 10. Intertextuality of Jeong Ji-yong’s Poems.