The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Compiler: A Marginalized Yangban at the Center of the Chos?n Cultural Scene
2. The Narrative World: A Window Into the Zeitgeist of Contemporary Chos?n at Large
3. The Language: Articulating in the Language of the Here and Now
4. The Text in Motion: The Circulation of the Tongp’ae naksong and the Rise of Yadam in the Chos?n Manuscript Context
Coda
Appendix A: The Original Text and Translation of “The Biography of No, the Clumsy Old Man”
Appendix B: A Translation of “The Story of a Slave Girl from Chirye”
Notes
Bibliography
Index