Introduction to Literary Japanese

Undergraduate

Introduction to the grammar and style of the premodern literary language (bungotai). We will read Taketori monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, ca. 909), the oldest surviving work of prose fiction in Japanese, with a view toward understanding how literary texts were created, preserved, and disseminated in premodern Japan and East Asia. Prerequisite: JAPN 1510 or equivalent. L5 TTh 9am-10:15am