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2123046 - Japanska knjizevnost 2

Course specification
Course title
Acronym 2123046
Study programme
Module
Type of study
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 3.0 Status
      Condition It can be attended if the course Japanese Literature 1 has been taken. The exam can be taken if the course Japanese Literature 1 has been passed. Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal The study of the main trends in the development of late ancient Japanese literature, in particular emergence of new literary genres, on the examples of the most important works.
      The outcome The student gains insight into the origin and main bearers of court literature, into changes in literary expression through newly created genres and representative works. He is familiar with changes in aesthetic understandings and with the development of poetry. Understand the relationship between literature and Buddhism in the collections of short stories from the end of the Heian period.
      Contents
      Contents of lectures The subject provides an insight into the socio-historical background of the formation and development of late ancient literature (794‒1185) and its main bearers. On the example of the first imperial anthology, Kokin wakashu, the features of waka poetry are analyzed. By getting acquainted with representative works, the features of newly emerging (predominantly) prose genres are explored: monogatari (or the genesis of the novel), nikki bungaku (diary literature), zuihitsu (essay literature) and setsuwa (short stories).
      Contents of exercises
      Literature
      1. Traditional Japanese Literature. An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. Edited by Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. (Original title)
      2. Priča o sekaču bambusa (Taketori monogatari). Prevod sa starojapanskog jezika Danijela Vasić, Hiroši Jamasaki Vukelić. Pogovor i napomene Danijela Vasić. Beograd: Tanesi, 2010. (Original title)
      3. Kokinshu – A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984. (Original title)
      4. Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Transl. by Royall Tyler. New York: Penguin books, 2001. (Original title)
      5. Miyoshi, Yukio. Shin nihon bungakushi. Bunedo, Tokyo, 2003. (Original title)
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      2
      Methods of teaching Lectures, teamwork and individual work, writing research paper.
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures Test paper
      Practical lessons Oral examination 60
      Projects
      Colloquia
      Seminars 40