2 stories tagged ‘David McCann’

Poetry in the making

By Sarah Sweeney, Harvard Staff Writer / November 20, 2012

David McCann, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, is spreading his love of sijo, a poetic form.

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Categories: Arts & Culture, Literature & Poetry

Suffering, through an Asian lens

By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Staff Writer / November 9, 2010

Several Asian scholars and historians gathered at the Faculty Club Nov. 5 to discuss the cultures of suffering produced by war and tragedy, as shown in the book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” by Harvard President Drew Faust.

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Categories: Arts & Culture, History, Language & Culture