Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Waseda University
Course Title:
Intermediate Seminar (Prewar Japanese Fiction in English Translation) [E] 01
Course Number:
ARTT281L
Course Description:
This seminar, paired with a second seminar on postwar Japanese fiction, is devoted to reading and interpreting works by major Japanese writers of the modern (that is, post-Meiji) period in English translation. Japanese literature has won growing recognition as one of the world’s great literatures, and this seminar aims to test that proposition by examining short stories and novels that have won a place in the modern Japanese literary canon. In addition to close readings of the texts, the works will be placed in a variety of contexts: literary, historical, social, cultural, and biographical. The prewar period spans the years from the Meiji Restoration (1868) to World War II (1941-1945). We will be focusing mostly on shorter works by recognized "major" writers, following the divisions in the Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature and supplemented by the stories in the Keene anthology as well as by several longer works. In
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
JAPA 340
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