1. Chushingura
2. Sayonara Synopsis (You may check out a DVD from Bracken and watch it in the booth there, or watch this online version of it )
3. The Dancing
4. Thirteenth Night
5. The Tale of Shunkin
6. Kokoro 1 のぎ1 のぎ2 203 Kokoro 2
7. The Martyr
8. 笑の大学・Warainodaigaku
9. Canary Boat
10. Departures
11. The Housekeeper and the Professor
Lecture on HP Trailer 人生に文学を
12. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Dinner Speech) 2 Hilary
13. Broken Commandment
14. Roshomon
15. むかしの歌
16. Shall we dance? 5:16 has いただきます。
17. 講座
- Naturalism: application of the principle of scientific determination to literature
Darwin, biological determinism
Marx, economical determinism
Freud, determination of subconscious and inner world
Japanese Naturalism: search for the individual -->absolutely faithful reproduction of real events
and writer's own anguish -->I-novel
“Modernism meant the replacement of religious certainty and moral absolutes by skepticism, doubt, agnosticism, and intellectual relativism.” --Irving Howe: Politics of the Novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
- Yuranosuke/Honzo/Kanpei/--Aizawa--Ushimasu's dad/Otosaku--Bunpei/ Tillie--Hilary--John's dad
- Toyotaro--Ushimatsu
- Inoko Rantaro--Major Lloyd--Joanna Drayton's dad----modern man
- Discovery of "modern self' by unemployed Sumura in "Roshomon,"
- Sensei, discovery of human weakness to temptation, no one is born villain, and self, version 2
- The King in "Run, Melos" and Sensei: loneliness.
- Courtly/Townsman/Samurai--Emperor's Enthronement Ceremony/Art for Art's Sake/General Nogi, Patriotism, Mishima Yukio
- Japan's emergence as a modern nation was stunning to behold: swifter, more audacious, more successful, and ultimately more crazed, murderous, and self-destructive than any one had imagined possible.
--From Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII, by John Dower - Canvas Sample Paper
- Canvas Support Hotline (toll free):
Faculty call 833-476-1171
Students call 855-338-2770 - Status of Writers/Playwrights in modern Japan
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