Folk Tales from Korea

Title

en_US Folk Tales from Korea

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Zong In-Sob

Creator

en_US Zŏng, In-sŏb See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:19:20Z

en_US 1988-07

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:19:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1952

Abstract

en_US An excellent compendium of Korean folk literature. The fifteen-page section on fables (183-97) contains nineteen fables. The Bald Old Man (191) is very close to Aesop; the wife suspects a mistress and so the husband lets her pull out all the black hairs, and he is no longer attractive to the mistress. Most of these fables are stories about humans rather than animals; they are closer to our jokes than to our fables. Popular folk motifs show up: Show me how you did it ( The Ungrateful Tiger ); No, X is greater than I (which traces a circle in The Rat's Bridegroom ); and Give me the X who took my Y (a young man parlays one grain into an ox in A Grain of Millet ).

Identifier

en_US 0930878264

en_US 738 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75529

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Hollym International Corp.

en_US Elizabeth, NJ

Subject

en_US GR342.F64 1982 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole