Marion Eggert

Marion Eggert is currently professor at and chair of the Korean Studies Department at Bochum University, Germany. She studied Sinology, Japanology and Cultural Anthropology at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich in Germany and at Nanjing University in China. During another year as an exchange student at Sônggyun-gwan University, Seoul, she began her studies in Korean history of ideas. Having earned both M.A. (1989) and PhD (1992) in Chinese Literature at Munich University, she spent a year as post-doctoral fellow at Harvard’s Korea Institute (1994-95). In 1998 she earned the venia legendi (professorship qualification) for Chinese and Korean Studies at Munich University.

Research interests:
Korean history of ideas, esp. of Chosôn times; hanmun literature; modern Korean literature, esp. poetry; Korean self-positioning in her surrounding world; Korean-Chinese cultural connections.

Major publications:

Monographs:
Rede vom Traum. Traumauffassungen der Literatenschicht im späten kaiserlichen China. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1993. (about notions on dreams and dreaming in later imperial China)
Wind und Gras. Moderne koreanische Lyrik (transl. and ed.). Munich: Christian Rohr, 1991. (an anthology of modern Korean poetry)
Nur wir Dichter. Yuan Mei: Eine Dichtungstheorie des 18. Jahrhunderts zwischen Selbstbehauptung und Konvention. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1989. (about an 8th century Chinese theory of literature)

Articles:
“'Abhängige Entwicklung' oder 'eigenständige Moderne'? Zu den Ursprüngen des koreanischen Prosagedichts,” forthcoming in: Christian Szyska, Friederike Pannewick, eds.: Interkulturalität, Intertextualität und die Entwicklung von Genres. Dr. Reichert-Verlag, 2002. (on the roots of the Korean sanmunsi genre)
“Art and politics: the political dimension in Ming-Qing youji writing,” in: Rudolphus Teeuwen and Shu-li Chang, eds.: Crossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics. Taipei: Bookman Books, 2001.
“Das 'Aufsuchen von Landschaften (kugyông)': Elemente einer Poetik des vormodernen koreanischen Reiseberichts,” forthcoming in: Xenia v. Ertzdorff-Kupffer, ed., Erkundung und Beschreibung der Welt. Zur Poetik der Reise- und Länderberichte II, Chloe. Beiheft zum Daphnis, Amsterdam 2002 (on the poetics of premodern Korean landscape essays).
“Transcendent, transgressive, expressive: games and playing in premodern Chinese culture,” in: Anders Hansson, et al, ed.: The Chinese at Play. Festivals, Games, and Leisure. London: Kegan Paul, 2001.
“The Balance of Words: The Sôp'o manp'il on language and literature,” in: Nelly Naumann, ed., Language and Literature: Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages (Festschrift für Roy Miller), 1999: 67-90.
“Views of the Country, Visions of Self: Chosôn Dynasty Travel Records on Chiri-san and Paektu-san,” in: Asiatische Studien 4/1998: 1069-1102.
“A Borderline Case: Korean travelers' views of the Chinese border,” in: Roderich Ptak, Sabine Dabringhaus, ed: China and her Neighbors. Borders and Visions of the Others, Sung to Ch'ing, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997: 49-78.
“Traditional Korean Ideas on Dreams,” in: A Collection of Theses on Korean Studies, ed. by the Korea Foundation. Seoul: Korea Foundation, 1995: 191-214.

Contact:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sprache und Kultur Koreas
Universitätstr. 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/skk
tel [49] (234) 32-25572
fax [49] (234) 32-14747
E-mail: Marion.Eggert@ruhr-uni-bochum.de