EAST H299 - Modern Japanese Literature

Institution:

Haverford College

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Description:

M.Kaneko One of the defining features of Japanese literature up to the present day has been this ongoing absorption of styles and concepts drawn from the West; yet Japanese aesthetics and literary techniques have deep roots indeed, and these traditions continue to be fertile in the literary soil% of Japan over the last 150 years. In this course, we will explore some of the cross-cultural phenomena, such as realism and idealism; the aesthetic ambitions of imported romanticism; naturalism and the sciences; proletarian literature and the issues of class; intellectualism and anti-intellectualism; and the agonies of forging new literary traditions in the wake of a cataclysmic world war.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

09/01/2007 - 08/30/2008 

Institution Website:

www.haverford.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 896-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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