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Harvard - Gender and Japanese Art

Examines the role of gender in the production, reception, and interpretation of visual images in Japan from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries. Topics include Buddhist conceptions of the feminine and Buddhist painting; sexual identity and illustrated narratives of gender reversals; the dynamics of voyeurism in Ukiyo-e woodblock prints; modernization of images of "modern girls" in the 1920s; and the gender dynamics of girl culture in manga and anime.
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Harvard - Gender, Nation, and Japanese Literature

This course explores the interrelated formation of gender, nation, and literature in the history of Japanese literature and literary criticism. The readings will include premodern and modern literary texts, as well as other historical and theoretical sources.
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Harvard - Girl Culture, Media, and Japan

The course examines the ways in which girlhood and girl culture have figured in the construction of gender, nation, and popular medias in modern to contemporary Japan, from the 1920s to the present. We will study visual and textual mediums, including novels, magazines, films, manga, and animation, paying attention to principal transformations that have marked the history of modern girl culture in Japan. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or history is expected.
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Harvard - Introduction to Japanese Animation

This course examines a wide range of contemporary animated films and TV series made in Japan through their generic conventions, formal aesthetics, and narrative themes. Special attention will be paid to the relations between anime and various other commercial as well as non-commercial mediums such as manga, live-action films, video games, pop music, character merchandises, and fanzines.
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Harvard - Nara and Heian Court Literature

Topic: Man 'yoshu
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Harvard - Pre-modern Japanese Literature in Translation

This course provides an overview of literary works produced in Japan from the 7th century to the early 19th century. The texts examined range from imperial court poetry of a rarified decorousness to bawdy tales produced by and for members of the urban middle class and a gorily melodramatic kabuki play. We will examine these diverse genres in light of the radically different social contexts in which they were produced and consumed.
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Harvard - Romance and Eros in the Fiction of Pre-modern Japan and China

This course focuses on fiction produced in early-Tokugawa Japan and in Ming- and Qing-dynasty China, namely, selections from Ihara Saikaku's tales and novels, and portions of The Plum in the Golden Vase and Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone/Dream of the Red Chamber. However, because of the importance of literary allusion in Saikaku's works, the course will begin with a brief examination of texts produced in Heian-period Japan and Tang-dynasty China.
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Harvard - Selected Fiction of Ihara Saikaku: Seminar

This course covers a wide range of fiction by Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) and examines the issues of sexuality, prose style, literary allusion, parody, social critique, chonin cultural aspirations, and interactions between chonin and samurai characters.
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Harvard - The Tale of Genji in Word and Image

Introduces students to The Tale of Genji, often called the world's first novel, authored by the court lady Murasaki Shikibu around the year 1000 CE. In addition to a close reading of the tale, topics for examination include Japanese court culture, women's writing, and the tale's afterlife in painting, prints, drama, manga, and film.
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