PATRICK CADDEAU
Assistant
Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
Department of Asian Languages
and Civilizations
Amherst
College
Modern Japanese
Literature
Amherst College, Spring 2004
Patrick Caddeau,
Webster 106, x
7928
pwcaddeau@amherst.edu
www.amherst.edu/~pwcaddeau/
Course meets: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:50 in Fayerweather
217a
Office Hours: Monday and Thursday 9:15-10:00 and by
appointment
Requirements: Assigned readings are to be completed
before class. Students are expected to lead at least one in-class presentation
during the semester. Two short essays, approximately 5 pages in length, will be
assigned during the semester. The final paper, approximately 2,500 words (10
pages) in length, is due in my office by 3:00 pm on Tuesday, 5/11. One-half
letter grade will be deducted for each day an assignment is submitted beyond the
due date.
The following books are available for purchase at the Jeffery
Amherst College Store:
Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
(Oxford) Ted Goossen, ed.
Kokoro. Natsume Sôseki
A
Dark Night's Passing. Shiga Naoya
The Makioka Sisters. Tanizaki
Jun’ichirô
A Personal Matter. Ôe Kenzaburô
Temple of the Golden
Pavilion. Mishima Yukio
No Longer Human. Dazai Osamu
The
Waiting Years. Enchi Fumiko
Norwegian Wood. Murakami
Haruki
My Year of Meats. Ruth Ozeki
Additional materials
will be distributed during the course of the semester. (Please note, a fee will
be charged by the department to cover duplication costs.)
Syllabus
Assigned Readings
- Week I
- 1/27 Course introduction and overview
- 1/29 Short story and discussion of narrative modes
- Murakami Haruki, “The Elephant Vanishes” (pp. 400-16) in
Oxford
- Week 2
- 2/3 Natsume Sôseki, Kokoro
- 2/5 Natsume Sôseki, Kokoro
- Week 3
- 2/10 Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, Makioka Sisters: Book
One
- 2/12 Makioka Sisters: Book Two
- Week 4
- 2/15 (sun) film Screening: Makioka Sisters location
TBA
- 2/17 Makioka Sisters: Book Three
- 2/19 Kajii Motojirô, “Lemon” (pp. 149-54) in
Oxford
- Week 5
- 2/23 (mon) Short Essay I due in Web 106 by 3:00 pm
- 2/24 Shiga Naoya, “Night Fires” (pp. 52-61) in
Oxford
- 2/26 Shiga Naoya, A Dark Night’s Passing : Prologue
& Part I
- Week 6
- 3/2 A Dark Night’s Passing: Part II, III
- 3/4 A Dark Night’s Passing: Part IV
- Week 7
- 3/9 Ôe Kenzaburô, A Personal Matter
- 3/11 Ôe Kenzaburô, “Prize Stock” in
Oxford
- SPRING RECESS 3/13-21
- Week 8
- 3/23 Mishima Yukio, Temple of the Golden Pavilion:
Part I
- 3/25 Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Part II
- Week 9
- 3/29 (mon) Short Essay II due in Web 106 by 3:00 pm
- 3/30 Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, The Key***
- 4/1 Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, The Key
- Week 10
- 4/6 Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human
- 4/8 Dazai Osamu, “Merry Christmas”
- Week 11
- 4/13 Enchi Fumiko, Waiting Years
- 4/15 Enchi Fumiko, “The Flower-Eating Crone” (pp. 172-181)
in Oxford
- Week 12
- 4/20 Murakami Haruki, Norwegian Wood: Part I
- 4/22 Norwegian Wood: Part II
- Week 13
- 4/27 Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats : pp. 1-241
- 4/29 My Year of Meats : pp. 243-361
- Week 14
- 5/4 Presentations and pre-writing assingment for
final paper
- 5/6 Presentations and pre-writing assingment for
final paper
- Reading Period 5/8-9
- Examination Period 5/10-14
- Final Paper (2,500 words) due in Webster 106 by 3:00 pm on
Tuesday, 5/11
Return to
homepage