Seminar: Position of Modernity in East Asian Literature

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Seminar, three hours. Preparation: at least five years of one East Asian language. Designed for graduate students. Conceptual architecture and archaeology of modernity, with readings largely from European sources. In-class debate probes relevance of these readings for work as Asianists. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 245B).