Beongcheon Yu
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Beongcheon Yu's Degrees
- PhD Computer Science Stanford University
- Masters Computer Science Stanford University
- Bachelors Computer Science Seoul National University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Beongcheon Yu was a Korean-born translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel The Wayfarer and author of a critical study on Natsume. Yu was born in Korea on 29 December 1925, a twenty-eighth generation descendent in the Yu Clan of Chungju. He was selected to attend the Dai-Ichi-Koto Chugakko , now known as the University of Tokyo. He graduated with his BA in French literature from Seoul National University in 1948. He received his MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1954 and his PhD in English from Brown University in 1958. Known for his critical analyses of Hemingway, Melville, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the Korean authors Han Yong-Un and Yi Gwangsu, and the life and writings of Lafcadio Hearn, he also wrote about the impact of orientalism on western literature. He wrote a review of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, "Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in Moby Dick." Yu was professor emeritus in English at Wayne State University.
Beongcheon Yu's Published Works
Published Works
- Han Yong-un and Yi Kwang-su: Two Pioneers of Modern Korean Literature (1992) (20)
- Akutagawa: An Introduction (1973) (9)
- The Great Circle: American Writers and the Orient (1984) (8)
- The great circle (1983) (7)
- An Ape of Gods: The Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn. (1965) (6)
- Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in Moby-Dick (1965) (4)
- Lafcadio Hearn's Twice-Told Legends Reconsidered (1962) (1)
- ARTICLES : The Immortal Twins - An Aspect of Mark Twain - (1967) (0)
- The Perspective from Korean Literature (1975) (0)
- LAFCADIO HEARN'S AESTHETICS OF ORGANIC MEMORY (1961) (0)
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