Course Description:
This course explores early Japanese prose and poetry to detect native motifs that continue into modern literature. Dramatic scripts, I-Novels, surrealistic fiction, and contemporary authors including Yoshimoto Banana will be read and written about in a student created literary online diary. Taught in English.
Reflective Narrative:
Japanese Literature is over a thousand years old and has helped shape the past and present. This in turn has aided Japan in developing a rich and beautiful culture. In this course, we analyzed and interpreted a variety of literary and cultural texts, such as folk tales, novels, short stories, poetry, philosophy, biographies, and essays. One of my favorite stories in this class was Tale of Genji. Because this class is designed to read various literary works throughout Japanese history, we were only able to read a portion of the 54 chapters that the original book contains. We also watched a filmic adaptation of the Tale of Genji , which provided a more in depth view of the entire story. We were required to write in an online wiki diary. Below you will find a sample of one of my posts (tale_of_genji_wiki_diary-1) . In the wiki diaries, we must write about a topic of our Sensei's choosing and reflect on our overall reaction to the topic by discussing the contents of the story and analyzing the cultural essence of Japan. For our final paper, we were required to write a 6-7 page paper demonstrating our understanding of the ways in which literary works both reflected and shaped Japanese culture throughout time. I chose to compare and contrast the Heian and Tokugawa periods. You will also find a sample of my work below.
This course explores early Japanese prose and poetry to detect native motifs that continue into modern literature. Dramatic scripts, I-Novels, surrealistic fiction, and contemporary authors including Yoshimoto Banana will be read and written about in a student created literary online diary. Taught in English.
Reflective Narrative:
Japanese Literature is over a thousand years old and has helped shape the past and present. This in turn has aided Japan in developing a rich and beautiful culture. In this course, we analyzed and interpreted a variety of literary and cultural texts, such as folk tales, novels, short stories, poetry, philosophy, biographies, and essays. One of my favorite stories in this class was Tale of Genji. Because this class is designed to read various literary works throughout Japanese history, we were only able to read a portion of the 54 chapters that the original book contains. We also watched a filmic adaptation of the Tale of Genji , which provided a more in depth view of the entire story. We were required to write in an online wiki diary. Below you will find a sample of one of my posts (tale_of_genji_wiki_diary-1) . In the wiki diaries, we must write about a topic of our Sensei's choosing and reflect on our overall reaction to the topic by discussing the contents of the story and analyzing the cultural essence of Japan. For our final paper, we were required to write a 6-7 page paper demonstrating our understanding of the ways in which literary works both reflected and shaped Japanese culture throughout time. I chose to compare and contrast the Heian and Tokugawa periods. You will also find a sample of my work below.
final_essay_jpn_lit_12.10.15.docx | |
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tale_of_genji_wiki_diary-1.doc | |
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