Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1.5 hours; written work, 1.5 hours
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Description: Introduces major debates in history, politics, and culture through the genres of biogra- phy, autobiography, diary, and confession. Explores the parallel construction of the modern nation, the modern language, and the modern self. Traces the development of Japan’s “I-novel.” Builds skills in close reading by studying the rhetoric of self-narrative.