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Undergraduate Record 2024-2025
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JPTR 3290 - Feminine Fictions in Japanese Court Literature
Effective Date 01/01/2013
This seminar will take up the world’s earliest instance of literature written extensively by, for, and about women, including such famous works as the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and Sarashina Diary, among others. The focus will be on reading gender as a fictional enactment of desire and identity that is performed through acts of writing and reading. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or literature is required.
Credits: 3
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