Анотация: Chapter 1. Higher narratives in Korea; Chapter 2. Love lyrics in late middle Korean; Chapter 3. The storyteller's miscellany: a critical introduction; Chapter 4. Images of society in the early Choson literary miscellany; Chapter 5. The Imjin Nok, or the record of the Black Dragon Year; Chapter 6. Ideal places in classic Korean poetry; Chapter 7. The road to Ch'unhyang: a reading of The Song of the Chaste Wife Ch'unhyang.