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  New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2003-2005 Programs of Study for Liberal Arts Students Programs, Faculty, and Courses Japanese 565 Courses in English  

Courses in English

01:565:241Japanese Literature in Translation (3) Selected poetry and fiction from 700 to 1885. Major concerns of the Japanese literary tradition and ideas and images of man, love, nature, and time that have continued to influence Japanese culture.
01:565:242Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (3) Japanese literature from 1885 to the present. The influence of Western cultural ideals on modern Japanese literature. Emphasis on the novel as a literary form. Readings from Kawabata, Sőseki, Mishima, Akutagawa, and Tanizaki.
01:565:250Language and Society in Japan (3) How language and society interact in contemporary Japan. Sociolinguistic methods applied to various issues: honorific/ humble forms, language and gender, conversation strategies.
01:565:315Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb (3) The atomic bomb in Japanese poetry, fiction, art, and film. Emphasis on problems of memory and representation of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
01:565:317Love, Honor, and Suicide in Japanese Literature (3) Suicide as a theme in Japanese literature from the eighth century to the present, with comparisons to the theme of suicide in Western literature. Selected texts from Western literature read to gain a comparative perspective. Films shown as well. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:332.
01:565:350Japanese Film (3) Japanese film in its cultural and historic contexts and as a Japanese art form. Viewing and analysis of films by Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, and others.
01:565:360Japanese Women Writers (3) Fiction and poetry by Japanese women from the ninth century to the present. Focus on women`s early role in inventing and shaping literary genres, and the reemergence of a feminine tradition in the twentieth century.
01:565:370Community and Difference in Japanese Literature and Film (3) Charting and analyzing twentieth-century filmic and literary portrayals of what is "foreign" and "Japanese." Racialism, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender in the Japanese arts.
01:565:460Seminar in Japanese Film (3) Major directors, development of Japanese film genres, Japanese film studies in English-language scholarship, relationship between film and national identity. Prerequisite: 01:565:350 or permission of instructor.
01:565:483From Text to Image in Japanese Art (3) Explores the profound influence of classical literature on the arts of Japan, especially painting. Analysis of the historical and literary meaning of the literary works; investigation of the fusion of text and image. Credit not given for both this course and 01:082:483.
 
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