Abstract
In his article "Environmental Literature and the Change of Its Canon in Korea" Won-Chung Kim examines how US-American ecocritical writings were introduced and received in Korea and how the change of educational curricula in Korea is influenced by changes owing to globalization. Kim shows that the limited reception of US-American ecocritics' works led Korean scholars to reformulate the canon of works in Korean ecocriticism and how they reinvestigate their own cultural heritage and ecological ideas. Kim refers in particular to the thought of thirteenth-century Kyubo Lee and today's Chiha Kim and argues that Korean ecological discourse has the potential to contribute to global environmental discourse and that it suggests a broader constituency beyond its local relevance.
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Kim, Won-Chung.
"Environmental Literature and the Change of Its Canon in Korea."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.6
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2653>
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