541 Classical Japanese Prose Richard H. Okada Aspects of the development of the narrative tradition in Japan, with an emphasis on analytical discussion of selected texts. 543 Classical Japanese Poetics Richard H. Okada Man'yo shu the Imperial Anthologies, and the works of Basho. This course examines Japanese literary modernism through twentieth-century narrative and criticism. Analysis of texts are augmented through discussion of contemporary literary, theoretical, and historical developments. The course discusses the critical presumptions explicit and implicit in pre-Meiji literature.
Readings are in literary, historical, theoretical, and exemplary texts.