Cultural Blending In Korean Death Rites

New Interpretive Approaches

Chang-Won Park author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation

Published:20th Oct '11

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Pioneering study of the fascinating blending of Christian and Confucian traditions in Korea before, at and after death.

Modernist troublemaker in the 1890s, Nobel Prize winner in 1920, and indefensible Nazi sympathiser in the 1930s and 40s, Knut Hamsun continues to provoke condemnation, apologia and critical confusion. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida and Sigmund Freud, Troubling Legacies analyses the heterogeneous and conflicted legacies of the enigmatic European writer, Hamsun. Moving through different phases of his life, this study emphasises the dislocated nature of Hamsun's works and the diverse and conflicting responses his fiction elicited from such figures as Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Close readings of the major novels Hunger, Mysteries, Pan and Growth of the Soil are presented alongside lesser known writings, including his early polemic on America, his turn-of-the-century travelogue through Russia, his fascist polemics of the 1930s and 40s, and his controversial post-war testimony, On Overgrown Paths. Troubling Legacies links past debates with contemporary literary theory and deconstruction in a way that contributes to critical thinking about political responsibility.

"This is a pioneering study of death rites in Korea, providing a fascinating look at the blending of Confucian and Christian traditions in death rituals.., the author makes a significant contribution to the development of theories and methods in the study of religion in general and the study of death rites in particular... An excellent book." -Journal of Korean Religions

ISBN: 9781441134264

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 368g

256 pages

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