# ASIAN 354: Early Modern Japanese Literature | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## course

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### title

EARLY MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE

### description

An extensive overview of the literature during Japan's early modern or Edo period (1600-1868). Introduction to one of the world's great cultures through its literature during a period that many people consider to be the culmination of a millennium of cultural development prior to Japan's forced opening to the West in the second half of the nineteenth century. Covers snippets from vastly popular works in the major genres of comic books, novellas, essays, poetry, kabuki and puppet plays and so on, concentrating on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some key questions in this course include: What is early modernity? What is literature? What is Japanese about these materials?

### requirements text

ASIALANG 104

### credit offering ids

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Overview of Japanese literature from the Edo period (1600-1868), covering major genres and key cultural questions.

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* Comic books, novellas, essays, poetry, kabuki, and puppet plays
* Eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese culture

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* Critical analysis of early modernity and literary identity

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#### graded

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### grade conflicts

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### evidence

#### history

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#### results

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## following

None recorded.