Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1.5 hours
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Description: Introduces major debates in history, politics, and culture through the genres of biography, 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.