[KS] Book Publication: New Study on Modern Korean Poetry

[David Krolikoski]

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*Lyrical Translation* is a literary history of modern Korean poetry’s
origins and its development through translation. As the use of Korean
became increasingly restricted during the Japanese occupation, translation
was not a choice but a necessity for higher education and intellectual
labor. Yet it also had an expansive, creative function: Korean poets
wielded it as an instrument to reimagine their literature. Around the turn
of the twentieth century, intellectuals began abandoning classical Chinese
as the default written language to embrace a new vernacular style in prose
and verse that was closer to everyday speech. Pushing back against the
perception of translation as a process of simple replication, *Lyrical
Translation* reveals how poets used it to forge an entirely new mode of
poetic composition.

Drawing on a vast collection of primary materials in Korean and Japanese,
David Krolikoski situates close readings of major poems against critical
writing (editorials, essays, and articles) from the period. His discussion
of translation illuminates the ways writers crossed linguistic and cultural
boundaries in pursuit of a new idiom. In some cases, poetic composition
took the form of interlingual translation as poets reworked verse by the
likes of Baudelaire and Verlaine into vernacular Korean verse. In other
situations, it involved the adaptation of foreign literary forms such as
the prose poem. And in still other instances, translation meant composing
one’s own poems in two languages to address multiple readerships.
Krolikoski’s interpretations pay close attention to the nuances of form and
language, which were in a state of flux due to the embryonic state of
modern verse, and approach poetry of the era as serious expressions of
political sentiments seeking to address the anxieties of modern life.

For more information, click here
<https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/lyrical-translation-the-creation-of-modern-poetry-in-colonial-korea/>
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David Krolikoski (박광현), PhD
Assistant Professor
East Asian Languages & Literatures
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
1890 East-West Road
Moore Hall 386
Honolulu, HI 96822
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