JAPANESE CULTURE AND LITERATURE 2

This course is an introduction to 19^th and 20^th century Japanese civilization, culture and literature. We will study various authors, works from different genres and main literary movements that marked those centuries. The course will focus also on relations between translation works and the evolution of Japanese literature that took place in the second half of the XIX century.

KEENE, Donald, Dawn to the West. Japanese Literature of the Modern Era, Fiction.

Bienati, L; Scrolavezza, P (a cura di), La narrativa giapponese moderna e contemporanea, Marsilio, 2009.

KARATANI, Kōjin, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, Duke University Press, 1993.