As I was working on the Wikipedia page for Kim In-suk, yesterday, I came across a nice little article in the Korea Herald. It is called Award-winning author publishes new book inspired by life in Bali, which is a rather poor predictor of what the book actually contains.^^ Possible the most interesting thing Kim says…
Comments on the role of genre in determining the success of translations. A docx file can be found here (Edae Genre Paper), and my accompanying Powerpoint here (Edae Genres Powerpoint). This paper now includes a lot of good commentary that was generated in the comment section of previous posts here.. —————————————————————— Introduction The“genre” filter…
The invaluable London Korea Links reminded me that there are actually two titles for Shin Kyung-Sook’s new book: Please Look After Mom (USA) Please Look After Mother (UK) And LKL also provided a link to see that book cover. The covers are entirely different, as we’ll see in a minute. As a fellow who constantly…
One of the less explored relationships between translation and success of that translation is that between genre and impact in the target culture. This paper will discuss the role of genre on several levels. On the macro level it will explore the fits, and misfits, between Korean literary and English-language genres and how this impacts choices of translations and their successes.