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Beongcheon Yu (29 December 1925 – 23 November 2022) ( Korean: 유병천) 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 (The First Higher School of Japan), 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.

Yu died in Paris on 23 November 2022, at the age of 96. ^[1]

Works

Original works

English-language

Books

• Yu, Beongcheon (1958). An ape of gods; the art and thought of Lafcadio Hearn (Ph.D. thesis). Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University. OCLC  23760480.

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.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)
• Yu, Beongcheon (1962). Lafcadio Hearn's twice-told legends reconsidered. OCLC  16782341. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. 34, no. 1, March 1962.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)
• 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 (1974). Linda Wagner-Martin (ed.). Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. pp. 109–131. ISBN  978-0-8701-3182-0.
• 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. 32 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 110–125. doi: 10.2307/2872374. JSTOR  2872374.
• Yu, Beongcheon (1967). "Lafcadio Hearn (Or Koizumi Yakumo) (1850-1904)". American Literary Realism, 1870-1910. 1 (1). University of Illinois Press: 52–55. JSTOR  27747562.
• "Literary and Art Theories in Japan by Makoto Ueda". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 26 (4). The American Society for Aesthetics: 540–541. 1968. doi: 10.2307/428323. JSTOR  428323.
• Yu, Beongcheon (1975). "The Perspective from Korean Literature". The Journal of Asian Studies. 35 (1). Association of Asian Studies: 126–128. doi: 10.2307/2054049. JSTOR  2054049. S2CID  165821377.

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.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)
• 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.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)
• 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){{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link)

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.

References