ASIAN 2270 - Love, War, and the Supernatural in Pre-Modern Japan

(GHB) (LA-AS)

Fall. 3 credits.

J. Kanemitsu.

In this course, students will meet some of the most memorable characters depicted in Japanese literature, from the 8th through 18th centuries. In addition to each work’s historical and cultural contexts, we will consider its literary conventions and think about how genres have been defined. A survey of representative works in Japan’s literary history, this course examines changing representations of idealized male and female protagonists as they pursue desire, conquest, and occasionally both. (LL)