RL14213 EAS320Y1 Modern Standard Japanese III Emphasis on communicative skills in spoken and written Japanese. Additional stress on mastery of 500 new characters and extensive reading in adapted and original original writings. The focus will be on modern Japanese literature, with special attention given to literature's relation to the nation. We will track how this literature transform throughout Japanese modernity and how its meanings and effects function to simultaneously tie together and pull apart national identity. Readings will also be assigned from secondary and theoretical materials.
All readings are available in English.