Japn309: masterpieces in japanese literature
Course Description:
This course explores early Japanese prose and poetry to detect native motifs that continue into modern literature. Dramatic scripts, I-Novels, surrealistic fiction, and contemporary authors including Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki will be read and written about in a student-created literary online diary. Taught in English.
This course explores early Japanese prose and poetry to detect native motifs that continue into modern literature. Dramatic scripts, I-Novels, surrealistic fiction, and contemporary authors including Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki will be read and written about in a student-created literary online diary. Taught in English.
reflective narrative
This course was heavily focused on reading and understanding the contents of the stories. Most of the literature we read were short stories, poetry, or sections from a novel. We also read one novel in its entirety which was "The Crab Cannery Ship" by Takiji Kobayashi. Sometimes we would read out loud during the class, but most reading was done individually
Checks for understanding of the material were done through class discussions and breakout rooms (being an online course) and write-ups which were submit through i-Learn and have now been lost.
Occasionally, some stories were supplemented by a screening of a film, such as Haruki Murakami's "Barn Burning" and Ryonosuke Akutagawa's "Rashomon". These films helped us visualize the stories and have a much more complex discussion, especially on the differences of what was or was not in the film based on the writing of the stories.
The most effective reading in this course was actually the reading we read all the way through, which was "The Crab Cannery Ship" by Takiji Kobayashi. Kobayashi's story was a critique of the labor industry and capitalism, and we had the most effective discussions on this story because many students found how the workers were treated to be disturbing or relatable.
In this course, I learned a lot regarding MLO2: Culture, especially about Japanese social issues, history, and cultural elements of Japan through documentation of real and made up stories from the 6th to 20th century.
Checks for understanding of the material were done through class discussions and breakout rooms (being an online course) and write-ups which were submit through i-Learn and have now been lost.
Occasionally, some stories were supplemented by a screening of a film, such as Haruki Murakami's "Barn Burning" and Ryonosuke Akutagawa's "Rashomon". These films helped us visualize the stories and have a much more complex discussion, especially on the differences of what was or was not in the film based on the writing of the stories.
The most effective reading in this course was actually the reading we read all the way through, which was "The Crab Cannery Ship" by Takiji Kobayashi. Kobayashi's story was a critique of the labor industry and capitalism, and we had the most effective discussions on this story because many students found how the workers were treated to be disturbing or relatable.
In this course, I learned a lot regarding MLO2: Culture, especially about Japanese social issues, history, and cultural elements of Japan through documentation of real and made up stories from the 6th to 20th century.