Spring 2019  |  ALL 3437 Section 001: The Japanese Novel (66557)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 12
Enrollment Status:
Open (41 of 45 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Survey of the principal authors of the period spanning Japan's opening to the West (1860s) to World War II. Writers include Natsume Soseki, Shiga Naoya, Kawabata Yasunari, Edogawa Rampo, Hayashi Fumiko, and Tanizaki Junichiro.
Class Description:

This course surveys the literary and cultural history of Japan from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the Second World War with a particular attention to the discourses and institutions through which a corpus of texts came to be conceived as a canon of a national literature. It is premised on an understanding of literary study not as a narrowly construed discipline, but as an important nodal point in a larger field of cultural and historical studies. After all, the institution of literature - and more specifically, national literature - is historical. As such, it is imperative to pay particular we will track their relations with such historical developments as the formation of the nation-state, the process of urbanization, the impact of the popularization of visual technologies like photography and cinema, changes in the social position of women, and the expansion of the Japanese empire.

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66557/1193
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/bposadas_ALL3437_Fall2015.pdf (Fall 2015)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
26 July 2015

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