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Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea

Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea

Krolikoski, David

Hardcover

Writing InstructionGeneral PoetryKorean History

ISBN13: 9798880702015
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.11
Language: English

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.

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