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		Course Number Course Title Credits Instructor(s) Modern Japanese Literature from MIYAZAWA Kenji to MURAKAMI Haruki 2 NAKAMURA, Miharu Keywords Modern Japanese Literature, Novel, Fiction, Poetry Course Description (including Goal and Objectives) MIYAZAWA Kenji, one of the authors of the Taisho and early Showa era, wrote a lot of juvenile tales and poems. He pursued 'the Real Happiness' for all human beings, but he also recognized its impossibility. MURAKAMI Haruki, the most popular novelist in contemporary Japan, focuses on the impossibility of communication between characters. His works takes up the various vulnerabilities of men and women of our time. The possibility and impossibility of human communication is the most important topic in modern Japanese literature. I'll give you an outline of it from this point of view in the class. Course Schedule 1 Outline of modern Japanese literature 2 MIYAZAWA Kenji(1) - His life and text 3 MIYAZAWA Kenji(2) -Spring and Asura vol.1 4 MIYAZAWA Kenji(3) -Spring and Asura vol.2 5 MIYAZAWA Kenji(4) - Juvenile literatures 6 MIYAZAWA Kenji(5) -Windy Matasaburo 7 MIYAZAWA Kenji(6) -The Night of Galaxy Express 8 On literary change from modern to contemporary 9 MURAKAMI Haruki(1) -Series of Listen to the Song of Wind 10 MURAKAMI Haruki(2) - Fantasy and realism 11 MURAKAMI Haruki(3) - Norwegian Wood 12 MURAKAMI Haruki(4) - Vulnerability 13 MURAKAMI Haruki(5) - Chronicle of Winding Bird 14 MURAKAMI Haruki(6) - Kafka on the Seashore 15 Conclusion; What is communication? Textbook(s)   Reference(s)   Grading Method Final Report 50    % Attendance and Homework 30    % Contribution to Discussions 20    % Message to Students MIYAZAWA and MURAKAMI are the most popular writers in Japan now. You will be able to understand the Japanese mentality as a result of this class. Contacts miharu@human.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp
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