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Graduate Record 2007-2008 
    
Graduate Record 2007-2008 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

JPTR 590 - Kawabata & Oe: Japan’s Nobel Laureates


By examining the achievements of Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) and Kenzaburo Oe (1935-), this course explores the diverse modern Japanese literary tradition and the two laureates place in world literature, as the former laureate represents the aesthetic-lyric camp, the latter the literature as a-vehicle-for-social-change camp. (IR)

Credits: 3