This case study on hypertextuality in late Chosn dynasty literature deals with works of narrative fiction in prose modelled after Kuunmong by Kim Manjung. The focus is laid on a novel extant in two manuscripts: Sinjng Kuullu and Sinjng chaeja Kuun'gi .

This case study deals with late Chosn dynasty works of narrative fiction modelled after Kuunmong (A Dream of Nine Clouds) by Kim Manjung (16371692). The focus lies on a novel extant in two manuscripts: Sinjng Kuullu (Revised augmented edition of the Nine Cloud Tower) and Sinjng chaeja Kuun'gi (Revised augmented caizi edition of the Story of Nine Clouds), short Kuullu/Kuun'gi . While this study specifically discusses late premodern hypertexts of Kuunmong , it is also concerned with a set of broader questions regarding the diffusion, circulation, reception, and creative transformation of literary products of different languages on the eve of modernity in Sino-centric East Asia.

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Dennis Wuerthner is a researcher and lecturer at the Korean Studies Institute of Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). He studies and translates premodern and contemporary Korean literature.

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This case study deals with late Chos n dynasty works of narrative fiction modelled after Kuunmong (A Dream of Nine Clouds) by Kim Manjung (1637 1692). The focus lies on a novel extant in two manuscripts: Sinj ng Kuullu (Revised augmented edition of the Nine Cloud Tower) and Sinj ng chaeja Kuun gi (Revised augmented caizi edition of the Story of Nine Clouds), short Kuullu/Kuun gi. While this study specifically discusses late premodern hypertexts of Kuunmong, it is also concerned with a set of broader questions regarding the diffusion, circulation, reception, and creative transformation of literary products of different languages on the eve of modernity in Sino-centric East Asia.

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On the rise and transformation of Kuunmong Kuunmong and its hypertexts in late Chosn dynasty Korea The "mosaic-hypertext" Kuullu / Kuun'gi Hypotexts of Kuullu/Kuun'gi and the issue of readership awareness Implications of dialogues with literary predecessors Markets, mosaics, and Nine Clouds in motion.