East Asian Lang & Literature 360 - SEM:TOPICS E ASIAN LANG & LIT

Topics course. The seminar will focus on the literature, art and culture of the Edo period (1600-1868). We will examine the historical and cultural contexts that gave rise to the literary and materials arts of the times, with units devoted to the culture of the pleasure quarters, the theater (bunraku, noh, and kabuki), poetry (linked verse and haiku), the development of aesthetic circles (za no bungei), the tea ceremony, and other literary arts of the great urban centers of Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo (Tokyo). Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

Topic: Literature, Art & Culture in Edo Japan. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores