Beongcheon Yu

Beongcheon Yu (born 1925) (Korean: 유병천) is the translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel The Wayfarer and author of a critical study on Soseki. He has also written studies of Lafcadio Hearn. Yu was born in Korea in 1925. He attended the First Higher School in Tokyo, and received his BA from Seoul National University in 1948. He received his MA from the University of Kansas City in 1954 and his PhD from Brown University in 1958. He wrote a review of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, "Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in Moby Dick." Yu is professor emeritus in English at Wayne State University.

Works

Original works

English-language
Books
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1958). An ape of gods; the art and thought of Lafcadio Hearn (Ph.D. thesis). [Providence]: Brown University. OCLC 23760480.CS1 maint: location (link)
Yu, Beongcheon (1964). An ape of gods; the art and thought of Lafcadio Hearn. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. LCCN 64010090. OCLC 2521170.
  • Yu, Beongcheon; Nihon Eibun Gakkai [English Literary Society of Japan] (1961). Lafcadio Hearn's aesthetics of organic memory. Tokyo: [Nihon Eibungakkai]. OCLC 39468940. Reprinted from Studies in English Literature, v. 38 no. 1, November 1961.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1962). Lafcadio Hearn's twice-told legends reconsidered. OCLC 16782341. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. 34, no. 1, March 1962.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1969). Natsume Soseki. Twayne's world authors series, Japan; TWAS 99. New York: Twayne. OCLC 73184.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1972). Akutagawa: an introduction. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1467-8. LCCN 75037579. OCLC 219733.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1983). The Great Circle : American Writers And The Orient. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1737-2. LCCN 83014811. OCLC 9785554.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1992). Han Yong-un & Yi Kwang-su: two pioneers of modern Korean literature. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2354-0. LCCN 91021779. OCLC 24010135.
Papers
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1965). "Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in Moby-Dick". ELH. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 32 (1): 110–125. doi:10.2307/2872374. JSTOR 2872374.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1967). "Lafcadio Hearn (Or Koizumi Yakumo) (1850-1904)". American Literary Realism, 1870-1910. University of Illinois Press. 1 (1): 52–55. JSTOR 27747562.
  • "Literary and Art Theories in Japan by Makoto Ueda". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. The American Society for Aesthetics. 26 (4): 540–541. 1968. doi:10.2307/428323. JSTOR 428323.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1975). "The Perspective from Korean Literature". The Journal of Asian Studies. Association of Asian Studies. 35 (1): 126–128. doi:10.2307/2054049. JSTOR 2054049.

Korean-language
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1984). Inyŏndo : Hyŏnmuk chei tanpʻyŏnjip (Korean: 因緣圖 : 玄黙第二短篇集). Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi: Chaedong Munhwasa. LCCN 86145148. OCLC 15428296. (in Korean) Short stories.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1984). Kongnyŏ : Hyŏnmuk chei hŭigokchip (Korean: 貢女 : 玄默第二戲曲集). Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi: Chaedong Munhwasa. LCCN 86178066. OCLC 18869609. (in Korean) Plays.
  • Yu, Beongcheon (1992). Aebigeil: Yu Pyŏng-chʻŏn changpʻyŏn sosŏl (Korean: 애비게일 : 유병천장편소설). Sŏul-si: Ŭryu Munhwasa. ISBN 978-89-324-7034-4. LCCN 98452169. OCLC 32758598. (in Korean)

Translations
  • Sōseki, Natsume (1967). Kōjin [The wayfarer]. Trans. with an introd. by Beongcheon Yu. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1318-3. LCCN 66026974. OCLC 1039994.
Reprinted 1969 by C. E. Tuttle (Tokyo). ISBN 978-4-8053-0204-0. LCCN 76446909. OCLC 813492505.
Reprinted 1982 by Putnam (New York). ISBN 978-0-399-50612-3. LCCN 81015429. OCLC 7837743.
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gollark: Cool!
gollark: How are you getting that transcript anyway?
gollark: I am ALWAYS (postmodernly, meta-ironically) serious.
gollark: Common sense is just a term for what is obvious to you and not others.
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