Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun Ch'onghwa: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea

by Ross King and Si Nae Park

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Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch'onghwa ("Compendium of Records of Hearsay"). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam stories in this volume feature ghosts and magic, courtesans and sex, and court politics. They constitute both an entertaining literary collection and a rich...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1442647337

ISBN13:9781442647336

Release Date:October 2016

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:704 Pages

Weight:2.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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