Making the Vernacular Visible : How Hong Hui-bok Redefined the Korean Popular Novel by Translating the Chinese Novel Jinghuayuan
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This paper considers the effort of the Korean scholar Hong Hui-bok to revitalize Korean vernacular narrative and give it an authority equivalent to that of literature proper. He did so in the preface to his translation into vernacular Korean of the Chinese novel Jinghuayuan (1835). This preface is the first attempt by a Korean intellectual to analyze Korean vernacular narrative in a systematic manner. Hong’s argument makes clear the relationship between the Korean concern with vernacular Korean writing and the awareness of a Chinese vernacular. The paper considers why Jinghuayuan interested Hong and how he adapted it for a Korean readership. Moreover, the full preface is presented along with a careful consideration of its implications. The social and historical background behind Hong’s theory of the novel, and his predecessors in the Chinese tradition are also treated
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This paper considers the effort of the Korean scholar Hong Hui-bok to revitalize Korean vernacular narrative and give it an authority equivalent to that of literature proper. He did so in the preface to his translation into vernacular Korean of the Chinese novel Jinghuayuan (1835). This preface is the first attempt by a Korean intellectual to analyze Korean vernacular narrative in a systematic manner. Hong’s argument makes clear the relationship between the Korean concern with vernacular Korean writing and the awareness of a Chinese vernacular. The paper considers why Jinghuayuan interested Hong and how he adapted it for a Korean readership. Moreover, the full preface is presented along with a careful consideration of its implications. The social and historical background behind Hong’s theory of the novel, and his predecessors in the Chinese tradition are also treated