慶應義塾大学 シラバス・時間割

日本近代怪奇幻想小説通史

サブタイトルGhosts and Goblins in Modern Japanese Literature
担当者名バナード, ピーター
単位2
年度・学期2023 春(学期後半)
曜日時限月3/水3
キャンパス三田
授業実施形態対面授業(主として対面授業)
登録番号12342
設置学部・研究科国際センター
学年2, 3, 4
科目概要-
K-Number CIN-CO-00113-212-02
科目設置学部・研究科CIN国際センター
学科・専攻CO
科目主番号レベル0学部共通
大分類0その他科目
小分類11国際センター講座(人文科学) - 言語・文学
科目種別3選択科目
科目補足授業区分2講義
授業実施形態1対面授業(主として対面授業)
授業言語2英語
学問分野02文学、言語学およびその関連分野

授業科目の内容・目的・方法・到達目標

Modern Japanese literature is filled with ghosts and goblins—if only you know where to look. This course surveys some of the strangest, scariest, and wildest fiction in modern Japan. It is designed as an introductory survey to the material, meaning that no prior knowledge of Japanese literature or Japanese history is required. We will begin at the “beginning” of modern Japanese literature in the late nineteenth century and work our way up through more contemporary works, and the stories we will encounter range from ghost stories to fairy tales to the literary equivalent of the splatter film.

Along the way, we will ask ourselves a set of interlinking questions. How did the broad genre of what is today known in Japanese as gensō bungaku, roughly corresponding to supernatural, horror, and fantasy genres, emerge and develop as a set of assumptions about the nature of modern life in Japan? How do these assumptions challenge our way of interacting with the world, with other people, and ultimately with our own sense of self? What kind of new understandings of various boundaries—between the real and the unreal, the present and the past, the foreign and the native, the living and the dead—might these stories suggest? And how are these texts part of a larger global network of weird fiction—what, in other words, does it mean to call a Japanese text “Gothic”?

(Please note that this class will be taught in English, and all distributed readings will be in English translation.)

You will need to complete a reading assignment as homework each week. This class requires a significant amount of reading outside of class, so please budget your time wisely with the weekly reading assignments.

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テキスト(教科書)

You will need to purchase the following books for this class:

1) Orikuchi Shinobu. The Book of the Dead. Translated by Jeffrey Angles. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

2) Matsuda Aoko. Where the Wild Ladies Are. Translated by Polly Barton. Tilted Axis Press, 2020.

3) Torishima Dempow. Sisyphean. Translated by Daniel Huddleston. Haikasoru, 2018.

参考書

Students are welcome to consult with the instructor for suggestions if they are interested in reading more about modern Japanese literature.

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