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May 03, 2024
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Graduate Record 2009-2010 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
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JPTR 5020 - The Modern Japanese Canon
Introduction to the modern Japanese canon (1890’s to the present). Writers studied include Natsume Sôseki, the first modern writer to delve into the human psyche; Mori Ôgai, the surgeon-turned writer; Rynôsuke Akutagawa, the consummate writer of short stories; Shiga Naoya, the “god” of “I-Novel” Japanese fiction; Yukio Mishima, whose seppuku suicide caused a sensation world-wide; Endô Shôsaku, the Christian writer; two Nobel laureates, Yasunari Kawabata, the pure aesthetician, and Kenzaburo Ôe, the political gadfly.
Credits: 3
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