| DATE | READ | SUGGESTED |
| 9/26 wed |
Course introduction, expectations, etc. | |
| Meiji Angst and the Modern Self | ||
| 9/29 Fri |
Natsume Sôseki,"The Civilization of Modern-day Japan" (1911) (26 pages, handout) | Pyle, Chpts. 6 ~ 9; "Sôseki" in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 349 ~ 384 or Keene, "Natsume Sôseki" in Dawn, vol. 1, 305 ~ 355. |
| 10/1 Mon |
Tayama Katai, "Quilt" (1907) (61 pages, reader/handout) | Keene, "The 'I Novel'," in Dawn, vol. 1, 506 ~ 555. |
| Taishô: Cool, Calm and Collected | ||
| 10/3 Wed |
Shiga Naoya, "At Kinosaki" (1917) (5 pages, reader); "Reconciliation" (1917) (62 pages, reader); "Night Fires" (1920) (9 pages, Goossen) |
Pyle, Chpt. 10; "Shiga Naoya" in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 331 ~ 348 or Washburn, "The Apotheosis of the Artist," pp. 214 ~ 225 or Keene, "The Shirakaba School," in Dawn, vol. 1, pp. 441-505. |
| 10/5 Fri |
Akutagawa Ryûnosuke, "In a Grove" (1921) (7 pages, Goossen); more Akutagawa Ryûnosuke (to be announced later). |
"Akutagawa Ryûnosuke" in Modern Japanese Writers or Keene, "Akutagawa Ryûnosuke" in Dawn, vol. 1, pp. 556-593. |
| Shaken and Stirred: Life after the Earthquake | ||
| 10/8 Mon |
Kobayashi Takiji, "The Factory Boat" (1929) (5 pages, reader); Hayama Yoshiki, "Letter Found in Cement Barrel" (1926) (4 pages, reader); Iwamoto, Yoshio, "Aspects of the Proletarian Literary Movement in Japan" (26 pages, handout) |
Keene, "Proletarian Literature of the 1920s," in Dawn, vol. 1, pp. 594 ~ 628. |
| 10/10 Wed |
Akutagawa Ryûnosuke (to be announced later); Yokomitsu Riichi, "Spring Riding in a Carriage" (1926) (13 pages, reader or Goossen); Kawabata Yasunari, "Palm of the Hand Stories" (1924-30) (10 pages, reader); Kajii Motojirô, "Lemon" (1925) (4 pages, Goossen) | Keene, "Modernism and Foreign Influences," in Dawn, vol. 1, pp. 629 ~ 719; Washburn, "The Narrative Subversions of Akutagawa and Kajii Motojirô," pp. 226 ~ 245; Washburn's "Translator's Postscript" in Shanghai, pp. 219 ~ 240. |
| 10/12 Fri |
Seiji M. Lippit, "The Disintegrating Machinery of the Modern: Akutagawa Ryûnosuke's Late Writings" (23 pages, reader); Kobayashi Hideo, "Multiple Designs" (1929) (15 pages, reader) | Anderer, "Introduction," pp. 1 ~ 15 or Keene, "Kobayashi Hideo" in Dawn, vol. 2, pp. 582-610 |
| There's No Place Like Home: Origins Personal, Origins National | ||
| 10/15 Mon |
First short essay due | |
| Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (18 pages, on line at: http://web.bentley.edu/ empl/c/rcrooks/toolbox/common_knowledge/) | Pyle, Chpt. 11 | |
| 10/17 Wed |
Kobayashi Hideo, "Literature of the Lost Home" (1933) (8 pages, reader); Sakaguchi Ango, "The Birthplace of Literature" (1941) (10 pages, handout) | "Ango" in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 31 ~ 48 or look over Steen or Keene, "Dazai Osamu and the Burai-ha," pp. 1022 ~ 1112, particularly pp. 1064 ~ 87. |
| 10/19 Fri |
Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, In Praise of Shadows (1934) (48 pages) | "Tanizaki Jun'ichirô" in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 385 ~ 402 or Keene, "Tanizaki Jun'ichirô," in Dawn, vol. 1, 720 ~ 785. |
| 10/22 Mon |
Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, Some Prefer Nettles (1928) (202 pages) | |
| 10/24 Wed |
Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, "Aguri" (12 pages, Goossen); Kawabata Yasunari, "The Izu Dancer" (1925) (19 pages, Goossen) | |
| 10/26 Fri |
Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country (1934-1947) (175 pages) | "Kawabata Yasunari," in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 149 ~ 168; Washburn, "A Dizzying Descent into Self," pp. 246 ~ 264. |
| The Art of War | ||
| 10/29 Mon |
Second short essay due | |
| Dower, selections from War Without Mercy (65 pages, reader) | ||
| 10/31 Wed |
Sakaguchi Ango, "A Personal View of Japanese Culture" (1942) (34 pages, reader) | |
| 11/2 Fri |
Hino, Ashihei. "Earth and Soldiers" (1938) (8 pages, reader); Sakaguchi Ango, "Pearls" (1942) (13 pages, reader) | Dorsey, "Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango" (kept with "communal reader") |
| 11/5 Mon |
The noh play Taema (22 pages, reader); Kobayashi Hideo, "Taema" (2 pages, reader); Kobayashi Hideo, "War and Peace" (2 pages, handout) | |
| Looking Back/Looking Forward: Literature of the Occupation Period | ||
| 11/7 Wed |
Sakaguchi Ango, "Discourse on Decadence" (1946) (12 pages, reader); "The Idiot" (1946) (35 pages, reader); "In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom" (1947) (19 pages, Goossen) | Pyle, Chpt. 12 |
| 11/9 Fri |
Kojima Nobuo. "American School" (1954) (26 pages, handout); Nosaka Akiyuki, "American Hijiki" (1967) (33 pages, handout) | Molasky, pps. 30 ~ 38 & 167 ~ 177. |
| 11/12 Mon |
Third short essay due | |
| Dazai Osamu, "Merry Christmas" (1946) (7 pages, Goossen); Ôe Kenzaburô, "Prize Stock" (1958) (39 pages, Goossen) | Molasky, pps. 75 ~ 81. | |
| Writing Degree Zero: Literature and the Bomb | ||
| 11/14 Wed |
Ibuse Masuji, Black Rain (1965-66) (300 pages) | "Atomic Bomb Writers" in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 49 ~ 70 |
| 11/16 Fri |
Ibuse Masuji, Black Rain (1965-66) (300 pages) | |
| Literature and the Emperor System | ||
| 11/19 Mon |
Robert J. Smith. Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and Social Order (27 pages, reader); Nakano Shigeharu. "Five Cups of Sake" (1947) (54 pages, reader); Ôe Kenzaburo, "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away" (1971) (110 pages, handout); John Treat "Beheaded Emperors and the Absent Figure in Contemporary Japanese Literature" (15 pages, reader) | |
| 11/21 Wed |
half day classes, Thanksgiving break | |
| 11/23 Fri |
No class, Thanksgiving break | |
| A Japanese Postmodern? | ||
| 11/26 Mon |
Murakami Haruki. Wild Sheep Chase (295 pages) | "Murakami Haruki," in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 227 ~ 244 |
| 11/28 Wed |
Murakami Haruki, "The Elephant Vanishes" (16 pages, Goossen) | |
| Constructions of Gender | ||
| 11/30 Fri |
Fourth short essay due | |
| Mishima Yukio. "Onnagata" (1957) (19 pages, Goossen); Yoshiyuki Junnosuke, "Ship of Dreams" (1958) (11 pages, handout) | "Mishima Yukio" in Modern Japanese Writers, pp. 213 ~ 226 or Keene, "Mishima Yukio," in Dawn, pp. 1167 ~ 1224. | |
| 12/3 Mon |
Yoshimoto Banana, Kitchen (105 pages). | |
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6 ~ 10 December (Thursday ~ Monday): final exams
Final Essay due finals week. Exact deadline to be announced. | ||
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