LIT 221 - Japanese Literature in Translation

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter

Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An introduction to Japanese literature in its historical and cultural contexts from premodern to modern times. The course materials draw upon selections from the earliest prose works to contemporary fiction of representative modern writers.

Winter 2014 topic:

LIT 221: Japanese Writers of the Millenium (3). Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. A general introduction to Japanese literature of the last millennium. We examine selected translations of works dating from the 10th to 20th centuries. We explore literary genres unique to Japan, universal themes, different cultural attitudes toward writing and language, along with the aesthetic and cultural background to the texts. (HL) Ikeda. Ikeda.