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3.00 Credits
All terms except summer: Arrange Available to students who wish to do advanced or independent study in Japanese. The student must get permission from the faculty member with whom he or she wishes to work. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Dorsey, Washburn.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 1210S: 10A Classes offered under this rubric deal with major figures, themes, or issues of twentieth-century Japanese literature, popular culture, and intellectual history. Techniques of critical reading and interpretation are studied as an integral part of these courses, which reflect the interests and expertise of the teaching staff. Since each offering is based on a particular theme or period students may take this course more than once. Courses listed under Japanese 61 are open to students of all classes. In 09W, Godzilla's Revenge: Anime, Manga, J-Pop and Cultural Identities in Modern Japan (Identical to Comparative Literature 49 in 09W). A vague suspicion that Japan's ultimately disastrous war effort had been fueled by both the culture of the elite meant that popular culture took on a new significance after WW II. This course will explore the evolution of this popular culture through the changing technologies of representation, from the manga (comic books), film, pulp fiction and popular music of the early postwar years through the animation, TV programming, and video games of present times. Topics to be addressed include the dynamics between high- and low-brow genres; the delineation of race, gender, and national identity in popular culture; the nature of culture in post-industrial consumer capitalism.No knowledge of the Japanese language required. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Dorsey. In 10S, Tokyo as an Idea: Race, Empire, and the Modern Metropolis. The dramatic rise of Edo, the shogun's capital, and its later transformation into the imperial capital called Tokyo mirrors the extraordinary history of modern Japan as a whole. We will examine the place that Edo/Tokyo has held in the cultural imagination of Japanese writers, artists, and intellectuals, and the role the metropolis plays as a major center of global culture We will look at various sources and materials -- prints, photographs, and maps; literary works; historical and architectural writings; advertisements, film, and television -- to trace the development of Tokyo as an idea within a comparative framework that considers other major urban centers such as Paris, New York, and Shanghai. Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: NW. Washburn.
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3.00 Credits
09S, 10W: 12 Classes offered under this rubric explore the emergence of modern Japan between the years 1600 and 1900 through an examination of literature, popular culture, and intellectual history. Techniques of critical reading and interpretation are studied as an integral part of these courses, which reflect the interests and expertise of the teaching staff. Since each offering is based on a particular theme or period students may take this course more than once. Courses listed under Japanese 62 are open to students of all classes. In 09S, From Floating World to Imperial State: the Art of the Short Story. A survey of short fiction from the late 17th century to the 20th century with an emphasis on formal variations that developed within the genre during the period when Japan developed from a late feudal, agrarian society to a modern imperial, capitalist culture. We will examine a variety of works within the particular contexts of changing cultural practices and social institutions, giving special to the growing interaction between the literary cultures of Japan and Western nations. Readings may include works by Saikaku, Akinari, Hiraga Gennai, Shikitei Sanba, Higuchi Ichiyo, Ozaki Koyo, Soseki, Ogai, Shiga Naoya, and Akutagawa among others. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Washburn. In 10W, Word and Image in Modernizing Japan. Images and text have been variously combined in the Japanese tradition, from the ancient picture scrolls to today's manga (comics). This course traces the evolution of such media in early modern Japan, with a focus on the late nineteenth century shift from the "communal reading" of visually-oriented texts to the silent, solitary reading of fiction. Some consideration will also be given to the re-emergence of the visual imagination in film, manga, and animatio n. Dist: LIT; WCult: N W. Dorsey
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S Classes offered under this rubric will explore key developments in the cultural history of Japan between the years 700 and 1600 through a close examination of literary artifacts. Techniques of critical reading and interpretation are studied as an integral part of these courses, which reflect the interests and expertise of the teaching staff. Since each offering is based on a particular theme or period students may take this course more than once. Courses listed under Japanese 63 are open to students of all classes.
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3.00 Credits
09W, 09F: 10A This seminar is designed to examine closely literary and cultural texts employing theoretical and historical sources. Topics vary according to instructor, but might range from studies of single authors to broader comparative themes, where students will be urged to incorporate readings in the original language. In 09W, The Art of War: Stories, Paintings, Films, and Propaganda From Japan's Modern Wars. In this course we will examine the relationship between a wide variety of cultural artifacts and modern Japan's experience of war, particularly WW II. Topics addressed within this context include: government censorship, literary subversion, popular culture versus high culture, visual versus written media, postwar cultural memory, the ideology of suicide squads, and the mentality of victimhood. No Japanese language is required for the course, but students with sufficient ability will be expected to make use of original sources . Dist: LIT; WCult: NW . Dorsey.In 09F, Cultures of Defeat: Postwar Japanese Film and Fiction. An examination of the production and reception of key literary and film texts in Japan between the surrender in 1945 and the return of Okinawa in 1970. Topics addressed include: nostalgia and the uses of the past in the language of Japanese film and fiction; censorship and cultural amnesia;violence as an expression of cultural authenticity; the reconstruction of national identity; youth culture and changing perceptions of gender; the impact of Western aesthetic and political movements on Japanese understandings of postwar culture. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Washburn.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S Dist: SOC; WCult: W. Heschel.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S A continuation of Jewish Studies 10, but may be taken independently. This course provides a survey of Jewish history and culture from the European enlightenment to the establishment of the State of Israel. Dist: SOC; WCult: CI. Heschel.
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3.00 Credits
09S, 10S: 10A Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Glinert.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 10A 10S: 2A The content of Jewish American Literature reflects that of many literatures including the broad variety of historical, political, social, and cultural experiences that Jews from very different places and backgrounds have brought to the United States. The course introduces students to the central topics, motives, and literary strategies from the beginnings of a tangible Jewish American literature in the late nineteenth century to the present. Dist: LIT; WCult: CI. Milich.
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3.00 Credits
09S: 12 This course will explore the literature of Jewish American women from the late nineteenth century to the present; topics for discussion will include feminism, sexuality, identity politics, activism, and literary transmission. Among the readings will be poetry, fiction, memoir, and essays by such writers as Lazarus, Antin, Yezierska, Stock, Stein, Olsen, Rukeyser, Paley, Ozick, Rich, Piercy, Levertov, Gluck, Goldstein, Wasserstein, Goodman, Klepfisz, Feinberg, Chernin. Dist: LIT, WCult: CI. Zeiger.
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