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    Early Korean literature was heavily influenced by Chinese themes and styles, as the literary language used Chinese characters. Korean began developing its own genres like sijo poems, sandae mask plays, and short stories. Novels also emerged addressing social issues. In the 1900s, Western influences grew and the Korean alphabet became the primary literary medium, as writers sought to appreciate, recover, and perpetuate Korean traditions.

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    Early Korean literature was heavily influenced by Chinese themes and styles, as the literary language used Chinese characters. Korean began developing its own genres like sijo poems, sandae mask plays, and short stories. Novels also emerged addressing social issues. In the 1900s, Western influences grew and the Korean alphabet became the primary literary medium, as writers sought to appreciate, recover, and perpetuate Korean traditions.

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    Prepared By:
    Ms. Dayrit
    KOREAN
    LITERATURE
    Early Korean literature owes a great debt to
    China in terms of themes or style. The
    literary language was written in Chinese
    ideographs, even after the invention of the
    Korean phonetic alphabet until the end of the
    Yi dynasty.
    Korean literature written in three categories
    01 02
    Han’gul
    Idu

    03
    Classical Chinese
    General Categories of Korean Literature
     
    1. lyric poems
    2. prose
    3. oral literature
    4. literature in Classical Chinese
    What is SIJO?
    - a lyric poem originally meant to be sung rather
    then read
    -historically the longest enduring and the most
    widely representative form of Korean poetry
    - a polished poem
    - more personal than a proverb and its soul is in
    its sensibility rather its wit
     
    SANDAE
    mask play of the Korean
    KINDS OF SANDAE 
    HAESO HAHOO
    a play with seven acts a play with five acts
     
    FOUR GENERAL TYPES OF SHORT STORIES
     

    love
    . personified story
    satirical ( the writer
    speaks through
    stories anecdotes
    tales the lips of a
    person already
    dead)
    KOREAN NOVELS
     

    problem historical court


    novels novels novels
    KOREAN LITERATURE AFTER 1900’s
     
    1. Deeply influenced by western ideas and literary forms
    2. Great intellectual and social mark the development of the
    literature
    3. Korean vernacular begun to replace Chinese as a literary
    medium
    4. Literary output was appreciation, recovery and perpetuation
     
     
     
     
     

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