MW 2:30-3:45     BH 337

**Cultural Studies Credit**
*Satisfies COAS AHLA Requirement*


This course explores selected texts of Chinese and Japanese fiction,
read in translation, with emphasis on the relationship between the
oral and the literary traditions and with particular attention to the
historical and cultural background.  Readings will include: classics
of anecdote and parable; historical annals and fictionalized
histories; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; oral
narrations alternating prose and verse; commercial erotic fiction;
romantic novels of poetic sensibility, and modern narrative of
psychological realism.  Among the works to be read, in part or as a
whole, are:  the Chuang-tzu ( Zhuangzi), Journey to the West (Xiyou
ji; Waley’s Monkey), The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei), The Tale of
Genji ( Genji monogatari), Iharu Saikaku’s Five Women Who Loved Love,
Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country, Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry.



Two papers and a take-home examination.