The Tale of Genji
READING SCHEDULE
Course Outline: EAST 493 (2015).pdf
Proposal Guidelines: Proposal Guidelines.pdf
INTRODUCTION
Sept 8 Introduction
UNIT 1: MEDIA & NARRATIVE
Sept 10 Genji, chapters 1-5
Sept 15 Genji, chapters 6-10
Translation
—Midorikawa Machiko, ‘Coming to Terms with the Alien: Translations of The Tale of Genji‘
Sept 17 Serialization and Narration
—Aileen Gatten, ‘The Order of the Early Chapters in the Genji monogatari’
—Porter Abbot, ‘Defining Narrative’
—Inoue Eimei, “The Truth in Patterns of Oral Tradition’
Sept 22 Genji, chapters 11-14
Sept 24 Transmedial Storytelling
—Andrew Piper, “Turning the Page” and “Letting Go of the Book”
—Yukio Lippit, “Figure and Fracture in the Genji Scrolls”
—David Herman, ‘Toward a Transmedial Narratology’
Sept 29 Genji, chapters 15-21
Oct 1 Sensory Communication
—Tomiko Yoda, ‘Fractured Dialogues: Mono no aware and Poetic Communication in The Tale of Genji’
—Paul Rodaway, ‘The Character of Sense’
—David Howes and Constance Classen, ‘Sounding Sensory Profiles’
UNIT 2: TOPOLOGIES & POWER PLAYS
Oct 6 Genji, chapters 22-28
Oct 8 Space and Place
—Tim Creswell, ‘Place’
—Bruce Coates, ‘Buildings and Gardens in The Tale of Genji’
—Nicolas Fievé, ‘The Urban Evolution of the City of Heiankyō,’ 91-96
—Figures 1-4, from the appendices to Ōkagami
—Figures 10.15-19 from The Princeton Guide to Classical Literature
Oct 13 Genji, chapters 29-33Proposal Due
Oct 15 Movements
—Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, “Chess and Go,” 352-53.
—Lucia Dolce, ‘Review: Bernard Frank, Kata-imi et katatagae’
—Yi-Fu Tuan, ‘Mythical Place and Space’
—Masuo Shin’ichirō, ‘Chinese Religion and the Formation of Onmyōdō’
Oct 20 Genji, chapters 34-36
Oct 22 Filiations and Alliances
—Peter Nickerson, ‘The Meaning of Matrilocality’
—Wakita Haruko, ‘Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan,’ 73-87
—‘Part Nine: Ranks, Offices, and Certain Incumbents’
Oct 27 Genji, chapters 37-42
Oct. 29 Genji, chapters 43-46
(Format TBA)
Nov. 3 Gifts and Exchanges
—David Graeber, ‘On the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations’
Nov 5 Break to write Draft
UNIT 3: NON-PERSONAL EXPERIENCE & END-TIMES
Nov 10 Genji, chapters 47-49Draft Due
Nov. 12 Fabulation
—H. Mack Horton, ‘They Also Serve’
—Amanda Stinchecum, ‘Who Tells the Tale?’
Stinchecum Who Tells the Tale.pdf
Nov. 17 Genji, chapters 50-52
Nov 19 Depression
—Julie Kristeva, ‘Life and Death of Language,’ Black Sun, 33-68.
—Motoori Norinaga, ‘The Intentions of the Novel’ (Ōmune)
Nov. 24 Genji, chapters 53-54
Nov 26 Salvation
—Heather Blair, ‘Religion and Politics in Heian-Period Japan’
Blair Religion and Politics in Heian Japan.pdf
—Robert Rhodes, ‘Ōjōyōshū, Nihon Ōjō Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan’
Dec 1 Trans-incarnation
—Porter Abbot, ‘Closure’
—Nicholas Abraham, ‘Notes on the Phantom’
Abraham Notes on the Phantom.pdf
—Paul Reasoner, ‘Reincarnation and Karma’
Reasoner Reincarnation and Karma.pdf
Dec 3 TBA
Dec 7 Final Paper Due
