[KS] Q regarding defining modernity

[Ann Choi]

Dear list,

I'm working on something which requires some clarification.  Would 
appreciate feedback from some of you more knowledgeable than I in this area.
It's on the conservative "early modern" architects' (particularly Ch'oe 
NamsOn and Yi Kwangsu) dismissal of ChosOn and praise of Silla as the 
site of a willed, nostalgic return.  HyOn Chin'gOn's MuyOngt'ap I think 
is an example of this nostalgia for the far, rather than the immediate 
past.  My focus at hand is on the sijo revival of the mid 1920s when an 
essentially ChosOn literary form was used to critique the cost of 
progress and to highlight Silla achievements.  SO ChOngju also glorifies 
Silla in his later poetry (not sijo, of course), and I think that this 
must be part of the same phenomenon of claiming an ancient past as a way 
of offering at most) and perhaps failing to establish) a different 
possibility of linear time than the one that these poets and writers 
felt to, some extent, fight against and to claim a nuanced legitimacy 
for themselves. 
Can anyone point me to some secondary sources which might help to flesh 
out my ideas?

Much obliged in cold New Jersey,
Ann Choi
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