Contemporary Korean Poetry
This explores the aesthetic, historical, political, cultural, and intermedial contexts of contemporary Korean poetry. Spanning the North/South postcolonial division to the present day, we will examine literary trends and movements, composition, rhythm, vocabulary, metaphor, and topoi as we seek to define the specificity of a contemporary Korean poetics. Socio-historical themes covered byway of lyrical expression will include postwar reconstruction, the April 19 th revolution, the peasantry and folk songs, worker’s poetry and the Minjung liberation movement, feminism and embodiment, deconstruction and language experiments, digital media and subjectivity, same-sex love and queer poetics, financialization and late capitalism.
Prerequisites & course information
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Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027