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Week
1
"ThE DEEP QUIET OF THE JAPANESE SPIRIT" [KAWABATA]
Texts by Matsuo Basho and Yasunari Kawabata
week
2
narrating the strange
Texts by Akinari Ueda and Kobo Abe
WEEK
3
witnessing history
Texts by Ichiyo Higuchi and Masuji Ibuse
WEEK
4
narrating the personal
Texts by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Kenzaburo Oe
WEEK
5
questions of identity
Texts by Soseki Natsume and Takako Arai

Introduction to Japanese
literature
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