Must be arranged with an instructor. Love and Death in Japanese Culture. A knowledge of Japanese is not required. This course covers issues of Love and Death in Japan, and how it is portrayed in Japanese Literature. In this course, students read a variety of premodern literature, including portions of the Tale of Genji and the Tale of Heike.
All literature is read in a cultural context.
A knowledge of Japanese is not required. A knowledge of Japanese is not required. Selected works and genres of late medieval and modern Japanese literature. Readings include seventeenth-century tales of urban life, haiku and kabuki plays, and mainly fiction from the modern period by such authors as Natsume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, Tanizaki Junichiro, and Mishima Yukio. Native or near-native speakers of Japanese are not eligible for this course.