Holberg Prize Symposium 2008: A Singular Modernity, Plural Postmodernisms

Lecture from the Holberg Prize Symposium 2008 by Paik Nak-chung, Professor Emeritus of English, Seoul National University, South Korea. Full title is "A Singular Modernity, Plural Postmodernisms, and a Double Project". Paik Nak-chung has published five collections of literary criticism criticism (beginning with National Literature and World Literature, 1978, including the most recent The Rewards of Literature in the Age of Reunification, 2006); four books on political and social themes (including The Shaking Division System, 1998, and the more recent Reunification Korean-Style, Present Progressive Tense, 2006); and The Conversations of Paik Nak-chung in five volumes (2007), in Korean; plus seven volumes of translation into Japanese and one into Chinese. Holberg Prize