PAAS 388

Modern Japanese Literature in Translation

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Surveys through selected English translations Japanese literature from the Meiji Restoration to the present day. Focuses on thematic and stylistic developments of various genres of Japanese literature, and covers such authors as Natsume Soseki, Mori Ogai, Kawabata Yasunari, Oe Kenzaburo, Mishima Yukio and Murakami Haruki.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 388, JAPA 303A, 303B, 303.

Formerly: JAPA 303A and 303B

Prerequisites: Second-year standing or permission of the department.

Undergraduate course offered by the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.