Schedule

AMEL 81 Fall 1997
Instructor: James Dorsey

DATE
(Week)		 Weekly
Subject		 READ
Title Description/Author
1 9/25
Thu
Introduction, course goals, course mechanics, etc.
9/28
Sun		 Special Event: Noh Drama Demonstration Member of the Kawamura troupe from Japan
2:00~4:00 p.m.
Collis Common Ground
Please attend
2 9/30
Tue		 Literary Irony:
Definitions and Paradigms
  • "Discourse Typology in Prose"
  • "Epic and Novel:
    Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel"
  • Mikhail Bakhtin

  • Mikhail Bakhtin
10/2
Thu
  • "Introduction"
  • "The Evolution of a Concept"
  • "The Contingency of Language"
  • D. C. Muecke
  • D. C. Muecke
  • Richard Rorty
3 10/7
Tue		 Irony:
The Japanese Case
  • "Script and Scripture: The Kojiki and the Problem of Writing"
  • "Floating Phrases and Fictive Utterances: The Rise and Fall of Symbols"
  • David Pollack


  • William R. LaFleur
10/9
Thu		 Student Presentations
4 10/14
Tue		 Irony in the Early Edo Period
  • "The Ukiyozoshi and the Floating World"
  • Excerpts from "Characters of Worldly Young Women" and "Characters of Worldly Young Men"
  • Howard Hibbett

  • Ejima Kiseki


Due: Vocabulary lists for Gesakuron
(See 21 October)
10/16
Thu
  • The Life of an Amorous Woman
  • "The Picaresque Novel"

  • "Toraaki on the Art of Comedy: the Making of the Comic"
  • Ihara Saikaku

  • Armando Martins Janeira
  • Makoto Ueda
10/19
Sun		 Joruri (puppet theater) performance 3:00~4:30 p.m.
Collis Common Ground
5 10/21
Tue		 Irony in the Late Edo Period Excerpts from Gesakuron Nakamura Yukihiko
10/23
Thu
  • Bathhouse of the Floating World
  • "Language in Crisis: Ogyu Sorai's Philosophical Thought and Hiraga Gennai's Creative Practice"
  • Shikitei Samba

  • Sumie Jones
6 10/28
Tue		 Irony and the New Worldview
  • "The Beefeater"
  • "The Western Peep Show"
  • "The Coming of the Enlightenment"
  • Kanagaki Robun
  • Hattori Busho
  • Donald Keene
10/30
Thu
  • "Child's Play"
  • "Troubled Waters"
  • "The Yoshiwara"
  • Higuchi Ichiyo
  • Higuchi Ichiyo
  • Danly's Introductory section
7 11/4
Tue		 The Collapse of Radical Irony Ukigumo/The Drifting Cloud
(all of the novel) 		Futabatei Shimei
11/5
Wed		 Ukigumo
(two selections, Japanese) 		Futabatei Shimei
8 11/11
Tue		 The Post-Ironic World
  • Saito Ryokuu & Kitamura Tokoku (no reading, short lecture)
  • Intro to Izumi Kyoka, by Dorsey
11/13
Thu
  • "The Surgery Room"
  • "One Day in Spring"
  • "The Saint of Mt. Koya"
Izumi Kyoka
9 11/18
Tue		 The Privileging of Interiority The Broken Commandment Shimazaki Toson
Introduction to Toson, by student
11/20
Thu		 The Broken Commandment Shimazaki Toson
Due: final paper proposal
10 11/25
Tue		 The Privileging of Interiority "The Quilt" Tayama Katai
Introduction to Katai, by student
11/27
Thu		 NO CLASS
(Thanksfiving Day)
11 12/2
Tue		 The "Serious" Pursuit of Truth
  • "The End of Juemon"
  • "The Discovery of Landscape"
  • Tayama Katai
  • Karatani Kojin
12/4
Thu		 NO CLASS
(Pre Examination Break)
12/6 Sat~12/10 Wed: Final Examination Period, Papers Due
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