LIT-246 Modernist Asias / Asian Modernisms

A survey of the rise of "modern" literature as a global phenomenon across different national contexts (and languages), including the U.S. and Great Britain, China, Japan, and India, with particular attention to the transoceanic flow of ideas and people that helped to make up different literary responses to the spread of global modernity. Works by Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and E. M. Forster; Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Mu Shi Ying; Tani Joji, Kitasono Katsue, Yokomitsu Ri’ichi, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, and Edogawa Rampo; Rabindranath Tagore and others. All readings in English (translation).

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

One course in literature

Offered

Fall

Notes

(History).