This course explores early Japanese prose and poetry to detect native motifs that continue into modern literature. Dramatic scripts, I-Novels, surrealistic fiction, and contemporary authors including Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki will be read and written about in a student-created literary online diary.
Narrative: For my secondary culture I took a Japanese literature class, we saw many poems and short stories. We saw how these short stories still have an influence in modern Japan today. I have watched several anime and saw all of the different connections that we discussed in class. We also saw modern adaptations of classic poems and stories which was really interesting to see how well a story can fit in a modern setting.