AMEL 07 Fall 1997
Instructor: James Dorsey
DATE
(Week)
READ
Title Description/Author
1 9/25
Thu
The Well-Cradle Izutsu, in Tyler
9/28
Sun
Noh Drama Demonstration Members of the Kawamura troupe from Japan
2:00~4:00 p.m.
Collis Common Ground
2 9/30
Tue
The Well-Cradle 10 Questions about The Well-Cradle
10/2
Thu
  • The Feather Mantle
  • "The Structure of Hagoromo, a Noh Play"
  • Hagoromo, in Tyler
  • Kenneth Yasuda
3 10/7
Tue
  • Ataka
  • "The Dramatic Structure of Hagoromo, a Noh Play"
Kenneth Yasuda
10/9
Thu
  • The Sumida River
  • The Damask Drum
  • Sumidagawa, in Tyler
  • Aya no tsuzumi, in Tyler
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgment
4 10/14
Tue
The Tale of Genji (Chapter 1-4) Due: first paper (two copies)
10/16
Thu
The Tale of Genji (Chapter 5-8)
10/19
Sun
Joruri (puppet theater) performance 3:00~4:30 p.m.
Collis Common Ground
5 10/21
Tue
  • "The Tale of Genji" (finish)
  • Pining Wind

  • Matsukaze, in Tyler
10/23
Thu
  • The Lattice Shutter
  • Evening Faces
  • "The Tale of Genji as a Source of the No: Yugao and Hajitomi"
  • Hajitomi, in Goff
  • Yugao, in Goff
  • Janet Emily Goff
6 10/28
Tue
"The Tale of Heike" (Chapter 1-4) Due: second paper (two copies)
10/30
Thu
"The Tale of Heike" (Chapter 5-9)
7 11/4
Tue
  • "The Tale of Heike" (finish)
  • "Atsumori"

Atsumori, in Tyler
11/6
Thu
  • "Sanemori"
  • "Yashima"
  • "Japanese Ethical Thought in the Noh Plays of the Muromachi Period"
  • in Tyler
  • in Tyler
  • Watsuji Tetsuro
8 11/11
Tue
  • Tadanori
  • Tsunemasa
  • in Tyler
  • in Waley, The Noh Theatre
11/13
Thu
  • Taema

  • "Taema"
  • in Yasuda, Masterworks
  • Kobayashi Hideo

Due: third paper
9 11/18
Tue
  • Jinen the Preacher

  • "Wildwords and Specious Phrases"
  • "Zeami's Buddhism"
  • Jinen Koji, in Tyler's Cycle
  • Etsuko Terasaki

  • William R. LaFleur
11/20
Thu
  • Dojoji
  • "When the Moon Strikes the Bell"

Susan Blakely Klein
10 11/25
Tue
  • The Mountain Crone
  • "The Art of the Flower of Mumbo Jumbo"
  • Figures of Resistance
    ("Introduction" only)
  • Yanamba, in Tyler
  • Jay Rubin


  • Richard H. Okada
11/27
Thu
NO CLASS
(Thanksfiving Day)
11 12/2
Tue
TBA Due: fours paper
12/4
Thu
NO CLASS
(Pre Examination Break)




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