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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2024 |
| Registration ID | EALCH231A001 |
| Course Title | Pre-modern Japanese Literature |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Visual Studies |
| Instructor | Huang,Honglan |
| Times and Days | TTh 11:30am-12:55pm
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| Room Location | HLL112 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1586 This is a course introducing classical and medieval Japanese literature, and also related performance traditions. No background in either East Asian culture or in the study of literature is required; all works will be read in English translation. (Advanced Japanese language students are invited to speak with the instructor about arranging to read some of the works in the original or in translation into modern Japanese.) The course is a chronological survey of Japanese literature from the tenth century to the fifteenth. It will focus on well-known texts like the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, both written by women, and the ballad-form Tale of the Heike. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts), B: Analysis of the Social World (Hav: HU, A, B) |
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