Modern Japanese Novels and the West

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This course will compare modern Japanese and Western novellas, drama, and novels. Comparisons will focus on the themes of family, gender and alienation, which subsume a number of interrelated sub-themes such as marriage, home, human sexuality, amae (dependence), innocence, experience, death, God/gods, and nature (the ecosystem). Offered as JAPN 355 and WLIT 355 . Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.