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.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
One course in literature
Offered
Fall
Notes
(History) All readings in English (translation).