EAST 215 - Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
An era of expanding urban space, popular literature, and print culture, early modern Japan (1600-1868) is marked by excitement, transformation, and collision of ideas. This course inquires about the meaning and characteristics of early modernity in Japan and its extraordinary literary creations and cultural innovations. Through examining its literary and cultural productions-such as poetry, comics, prints, and theater-embedded in their socio-historical specifics, we grasp the interaction and fusion of literary genres and socio-cultural aspects in early modern Japan that were previously discrete, if not opposite.

This course is appropriate for new students.