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  • LIT 215: 20th-Century Russian Literature in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. Selected Russian literary masterpieces (short stories, plays and novels). Authors include Olesha, Babel, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn. Brodsky.
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  • LIT 218: Pre-Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. A survey of Chinese literature from the earliest period to the founding of the Republic in 1912. Taught in English, the course presupposes no previous knowledge of China or Chinese culture. The literature is presented in the context of its intellectual, philosophical and cultural background. Texts used may vary from year to year and include a wide selection of fiction, poetry, historical documents, Chinese drama (opera) and prose works. Audiovisual materials are used when appropriate and available. Fu.
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  • LIT 220: Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This is a survey course to introduce students to the literature of 20th-century China. Through close reading of key literary texts from the 1910s to the present, students explore the social, historical and literary background that gave rise to the texts studied and the ways in which these texts address various issues that China faced at the time. Taught in English, the course presupposes no previous knowledge of China or Chinese culture. In addition to the selected literary texts, the course introduces several feature films that are cinematic adaptations of modern Chinese fiction and explore the complex and dynamic interchange between literary and cinematic language. Zhu.
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  • LIT 221: Japanese Literature in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An introduction to Japanese literature in its historical and cultural contexts from premodern to modern times. The course materials draw upon selections from the earliest prose works to contemporary fiction of representative modern writers. Ikeda.
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  • LIT 223: Seminar in Japanese Literature in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement and permission of the instructor. Selected topics in Japanese literature, varying from year to year. Possible topics include the development of poetic forms, Heian court literature and art, diaries, epics, Buddhist literature, the culture of food and tea, and Noh drama. Topic in Fall 2010: LIT 223: Seminar in Japanese Literature in Translation: Representing Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Literature (3). In this seminar, we read works by and about women from classical times to the present to explore representations of gender in Japan. Gender is not limited to women, of course, so we also read fiction by men in which sexuality, femininity, or masculinity gets problematized or dramatized in intriguing ways. The long tradition in Japan of nanshoku, or male love, is taken up with the works of Saikaku in particular, a writer as associated with his representations of lustful women as of men. Most of what we read in this course is modern or contemporary so as to be as accessible as possible to students; indeed, by the end we will look at popular culture in Japan where gender ambivalence plays a central role. (HL) Knighton.
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  • LIT 225: Poetry and Drama of Japan in Translation

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This course is designed to introduce students to the poetry and theater of Japan’s premodern era. We examine classical themes and poetic art forms, and read from the vast canon of Japanese poetry. Readings cover major poets such as Hitomaro, Komachi, Teika, Saigyo, Sogi and Basho. The second part of the course offers a close study of the four traditional dramatic art forms of Japan: Noh, Kyogen or Comic Theater, Puppet Theater, and Kabuki. Students experience the performative aspect of the Noh theater by learning dance movements and song/chant from the play Yuya. The final part of the course demonstrates how classical theater has influenced modern playwrights and novelists. Ikeda.
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  • LIT 235: Tragedies East and West

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. This course is designed to introduce students to the topic of tragedy in both China and the West from its origin in Greece and the Chinese Yuan dynasty up to modern times. It examines the concept of tragedy as a literary genre in the West, its evolution in history, and the aptness of its application to Chinese drama. Primary texts from Western and Chinese classical drama as well as from the modern period are selected as a basis for comparison, with a view to helping students form a comparative perspective in their appreciation of both Chinese and Western drama. Course activities include frequent discussions, writing assignments and projects of student performance, video screenings and a possible trip to either Washington DC or New York City to view a Chinese or Western play in performance. Fu.
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  • LIT 256: Trans-American Identity:Images from the Americas

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW or GE1 composition requirement. Counts toward the literature distribution requirement for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. A multi-genre survey of representative literary works from the Americas, defined as those regions that encompass Latin American and Caribbean cultures. In particular the course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how exemplary artists from the region have crafted images to interpret and represent their American reality. Selected narrative, film, and poetic works by Spanish-American (Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, and Carpentier), Francophone (Danticat), Lusophone (Amado), and Anglophone authors (Walcott, Brathwaite, and Naipaul), among others. Barnett.
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  • LIT 259: The French Caribbean Novel

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A stylistic and thematic study of identity acquisition through exile, marginalization, struggle, reintegration and cultural blending or any other sociologically significant phenomenon reflected in the literary works of the most important post-colonial French West Indian authors. Spawned largely by Aimé Césaire’s book-length poem, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, French Caribbean novels have proliferated since the end of World War II. After taking a brief look first at this seminal poem, the course then focuses analytically on novels written by authors such as Haitian Jacques Roumain, Guadeloupeans Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé, and Martinicans Joseph Zobel, Raphaël Confiant, and Édouard Glissant. Several films based on, or pertaining to, Césaire’s poem and to certain novels are also viewed. Staff.
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  • LIT 260: German Film Adaptation

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. This course examines both the history and theory of film adaptation by studying how directors treat and transform major literary works into moving pictures. As closely related art forms, literature and film have much in common – narrative frames, archetypes and audiences, as well as themes, motifs, and values. The study of works of literature and film in tandem leads to the development of more successful strategies and methods for reading texts and images as well as a better understanding of both genres. Kramer.
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