A Comparative Study of Korean Literature

Sangjin Park received his PhD from the University of Oxford and served as Visiting Professor at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. He is now Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Busan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, and the author of Semiotics and Theory of Openness (English) and Reading Dante’s Comedy: Universality of Classic and Sensibility to the Other (Korean) among others. Recently he translated Dante’s Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron with introduction and notes. He is preparing books on Dante and Comparative Literature.

1. The Condition of 'East Asia' Discourse: Thought and Practice of De-homogenization.- 2. Porous Modernity: Overcoming Modernity in the Age of Globalization.- 3. The World of Circulation: The Universality of Literary Value in the Guunmong.- 4. The Literary Value of Sin Ch'ae-ho's Dream Sky: A Marginal Alteration of Dante's Comedy.- 5. National Language Beyond Nation-States: Vernacular Literary Language in Yi Kwang-Su.- 6. Literature as Sensibility to the Other: Dante in Modern Korean Literature.