Japanese Literature 3600-4-JA2-WLKJ4
Edo / Tokugawa 1600-1868
1. Japan i n 17 c. – the Shōgunate and the Domains, Education, Literacy, and Printing, Entertainment.
2. Popular, and Elite Literature – Kana Booklets versus Confucian Studies.
3. Literature and Arts in Genroku Era: Stories and Novels, Poetry, Drama, and Print.
4. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World.
5. Haikai - The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashō and his Disciples.
6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater, and Kabuki
7. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater. Chūshingura: The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers.
8. . Buson’s Poetics and Poetry in 18-19 .
9. History, Romance and Supernatural. Yomihon – “Books for Reading”: Ueda Akinari and Kyokutei Bakin.
10. . Satiric and Didactic Picture Books Kibyōshi, Comic Fiction for Commoners, Books of Wit and Fashion.
11. Sentimental Fiction and Extended Picture Books and Parodies.
12. Ghosts in Nineteenth-Century Kabuki: Tsuruya Namboku, Kawatake Mokuami.
13. Nativizing Poetry and Critics – Motoori Norinaga.
14. . Dutch studies and interests in science, medicine.
15. Everyday life in Modern Japan.
Epoka współczesna – od 1868 do 2010 roku Contemporary Period
1. Modernization and Influence of West on Literature in End of 19 c.
2. Pseudoklasycyzm: Ozaki Kōyō, Kōda Rohan, Higuchi Ichiyō. Tradition and the New Realism. Colloquial Language in Literature. Neo-Classicism.
3 Between Romanticism and Realism / Naturalism.
4 The Present Age and History. Disillusionment of the Intellectuals (I Am a Cat and Heart –Kokoro).
5. Idealism of ‘White Birch” School. Neo-realism of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke – master of storytelling.
6. A Native Tradition in writings of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Nagai Kafū.
7 Modernism and Foreign Influences in 1920-1930s
8 Proletarian Literature and problem of convertion (tenkō bungaku). War Literature.
9 Libertin and a Representative of the Lost Generation.
10 The tendencies and schools after 1945 year: “Postwar School”, “Third New Generation”, “’Introvertics”.
11 Avant-garde and Post-Modernism (Abe Kōbō). Existentialism in Literature (Ōe Kenzaburō)
12 Religion and Literature (Endō Shūsaku).
13 Yosano Akiko, Masaoka Shiki, Saitō Mokichi, Kitahara Hakushū, Hagiwara Sakutarō, Miyazawa Kenji, Takamura Kōtarō. Poets in 20 c.
14 : Mayama Seika, Abe Kōbō, Mishima Yukio, Kinoshita Junji, Yashiro Seiichi i inni. Theater and Drama.
15 Murakami Haruki and Popular Literature. Role of Writing by Women.
Type of course
Learning outcomes
On the completion of the course, students should
- Understand fundamentals of history of Japanese literature,
- Be well familiar with basic literary terminology and major works of poetry, prose and drama (canon of Japanese literature) in the period covered,
- Get competence in analysis and interpretation of the major works and currents and be able to indentify Japanese authors and works in broad cultural context.
- Understand main cultural, social and political background of the works coverd.
Bibliography
Bibliografia
Haruo Shirane (ed.), Early Modern Japanese Literature. An Anthology 1600-1900, Nowy Jork 2002.
Donald Keene, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature from of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867, Nowy Jork 1976.
Donald Keene, Dawn to the West. Japanese Literature of Modern Era. Fiction, Nowy Jork 1984.
MikołajMelanowicz, Literatura japońska.Od VI do połowy XIX wieku, 1994.
Mikolaj Melanowicz, Literatura japońska. Proza XX wieku, 1994,
Mikołaj Melanowicz, Literatura japońska. Poezja XX wieku. Teatr XX wieku, 1996.
Mikołaj Melanowicz, Formy w literaturze japońskiej, Japońskie naracje, Japoński dramat telewizyjny. Mukōda Kuniko, Yamada Taichi i taiga dorama..
Beata Kubiak Ho-chi (red.), Japonia okresu Meiji. Od tradycji do współczesności, Monika Szychulska, Chrestomatia współczesnych opowiadań japońskich.
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