Topics in East/West Critical Theory

John Locke. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book III: On Words.

Kukai: Major Works, Part 3, sections 2 and 6–8.

Martin Heidegger. “A Dialogue on Language, between a Japanese and an Inquirer.” On the Way to Language.

Tezuka Tomio. “An Hour with Heidegger.” In Heidegger’s Hidden Sources.

Jacques Derrida. “Letter to a Japanese Friend.” In Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide.

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought, chapters 1–2.

Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment, Part I, Division I, Book I.

The Four-Seven Debate, introduction and pp. 1–47.

Haruki Murakami. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, chapters 1–18.

Fukuzawa Yukichi. Encouragement of Learning, selections.

Stuart Hall. “Encoding/Decoding.” In Culture, Media, Language.

Meredith Suzanne Hahn Aquila. “ʽRanma ½’ Fan Fiction Writers: New Narrative Themes or Same Old Story?” Mechademia 2 (2007).

Edward Said. Orientalism, chapter 1.

Millie R. Creighton. “Imagining the Other in Japanese Advertising Campaigns.” In Occidentalism, edited by James G. Carrier.

W. B. Yeats. “To Ireland in the Coming Times”; “Easter 1916.”

Gaston Miron. “Goddamn Canuck”; “Monologues on Raving Alienation”; “No.”

Wu Zhuoliu. Orphan of Asia, chapters 1–3.