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1 1 Nina Cornyetz 1 Washington Place Room 606 Office Hours: (212) All by appointment nc25@nyu.edu Monday 5-6 Tuesday 12-4 Wednesday Course Description: Syllabus Spring 2014 Passion and Poetics in Early Japan IDSEM-UG Monday and Wednesday, 3:30-4:45 GCASL Room 379 It can be argued that until the 1880s one thing was almost completely absent in Japanese literary and performing arts: the notion of an interiorized subject. In fact, the premodern Japanese arts are examples of extreme exteriority, that privilege form, word play and intertextuality and enfold the human being and human erotic passions within rituals for purity and harmony with a cosmology of the heavens. This course will explore ancient and premodern Japanese poetics and prose, performing and visual arts, from the very first writings through the nineteenth century, in relation to politics, gender, history and cosmology. Texts will include: Selections of poetry, emaki (picture scrolls), nô and puppet plays, selections from The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book. Presentations: each student will present twice a semester, once during the first half, once during the second half. Students are to choose a particularly representative, interesting, difficult, or etc. passage from the assigned texts to read in class, and offer a 2-3 page intellectual and analytic reaction of their own as well. Why this choice? The presenting students must hand in their reaction papers for grading. Course Requirements: 3 Papers, 5-7 pages each 60% (20% each) Presentations 30% (15% each) Attendance and Participation 10% Participation is a vital part of this class, and therefore also your grade. If you have a very difficult time talking in class come to see me during office hours EARLY in the semester so we can talk about what we can do. No laptops in class. Exceptions will be announced.

2 2 Course Objectives: The course aims to familiarize students with the various arts of ancient and premodern Japan, from poetry to puppet theater to early progenitors of manga. The course also aims to teach students about the concept of art forms that privilege exteriority, or form and function, above interiority or expressions of individual voices and emotions. Statement on Plagiarism Plagiarism means: presenting as your own someone else s words, ideas, opinions, and/or argument. You must be sure to cite your sources, include a bibliography, and use quotation marks when you incorporate another person s words or language verbatim. This includes buying a paper! Cases of suspected plagiarism will be referred to the Dean for disciplinary action(s). **** On Japanese names: Japanese names are in the opposite order of American ones, so the FAMILY NAME (our last name) comes first, and the GIVEN NAME is second. (Like in a bibliographic list, but without a comma: i.e. Cornyetz Nina). Students are required to bring a copy of the assigned readings to class. Required Books: Also on reserve at Bobst Library. 1. Ihara Saikaku, The Great Mirror of Male Love. Paul Schalow, trans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, ISBN LaMarre, Thomas. Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ISBN Miner, Earl, et al., ed. The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, ISBN Mostow, Joshua and Royall Tyler, trans. The Ise Stories: Ise Monogatari. University of Hawaii, ISBN: Sei Shônagon. The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon. Ivan Morris, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN

3 3 Additional Readings are available on NYU CLASSES. Below they are listed with full citation information in the order in which we will be reading them. 1. Selections from the Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters. Translated by Gustav Heldt. New York: Columbia University, Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York and London: Verso, 1983, Selections from the Manyōshū, NY: Columbia University Press, Marra, Michele. A Lesson to the Leaders: Ise Monogatari and the Code of Miyabi. In The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Raud. Rein, The Lover s Subject: Its construction and Relativisation in the Waka Poetry of the Heian Period. PMAJLS (Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies): Love and Sexuality in Japanese Literature, 5 (summer, 1999): Cornyetz, Nina. Excerpt from Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, Shirane, Haruo. Poetic Topics and the Making of the Four Seasons, in Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, NY: Columbia University Press, 2012, Mostow, Painted Poems, Forgotten Words. Poem-Pictures and Classical Japanese Literature, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp Meech-Pekarik, Julia. Disguised Scripts and Hidden Poems in an Illustrated Heian Sutra: Ashide and Uta-E in the Heike Nōgyō, Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 31 (1977/1978), pp Bradstock, Timothy R. and Judith R. Rabinovitch, eds. Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition, Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series, Selections. 11. D Eteheverry, Charo B. The Woman s Court: Theory and Practice. In Love After The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007, Fukumori, Naomi. Chinese Learning as Performative Power in Makura

4 4 no sôshi and Murasaki Shikibu nikki. PAJLS (Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies): Acts of Writing 2 (Summer, 2001), Murasaki Shikibu. Evening Faces, Heartvine and The Sacred Tree. In The Tale of Genji, Edward Seidensticker, trans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, Bryant, Anthony J. Forced Affection: Rape as the First Act of Romance in Heian Japan, Sarra, Edith. Poetics of Voyeurism in Fictions of Femininity: Literary Interventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women s Memoirs. Stanford University Press, Kimi, Komashaku and Tomiko Yoda, A Feminist Reinterpretation of "The Tale of Genji": Genji and Murasaki, U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement, No. 5 (1993), pp Terasaki, Etsuko, Introduction and Epilogue, in Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, Zeami(?). The Shrine in the Fields. In 20 Plays of the Nô Theatre. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The Love Suicides at Amijima. In Keene, trans. Major Plays of Chikamatsu, Columbia Sakai, Naoki. Supplement. In Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991, Pollack, Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama and Art, in Mostow et al, eds. Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003, Screech, Timon. Sex and the Floating World. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999, Ueda Akinari, A Serpent s Lust, in Shirane, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, Paul, Diana. Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press,

5 5 25. Kibyôshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books, in Shirane, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, Joshua Young, Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba. PAJLS (Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies): Acts of Writing 2 (Summer, 2001): Motoori Norinaga, in Shirane, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, pp Karatani Kojin, One Spirit, Two Nineteenth Centuries, in Postmodernism and Japan, Duke University Press, 1989.

6 6 Schedule Part One Antiquity/ Middle Ages September 7 Wednesday: Course Introduction The Kojiki selections in class. September 12 Monday: Communities of Antiquity Readings: Anderson, Imagined Communities, 1-46 (NYU CLASSES) September 14 Wednesday: Communities of Antiquity 2 - Imagine there s no Japan ; handouts on the Japanese language Readings: Miner, Manyoshu, selections (NYU Classes). Overview of Princeton Companion Assignment: Familiarize yourself with The Princeton Companion bring text to class! September 19 Monday: Language Games Readings: LaMarre, Uncovering Heian Japan (Remember to consult The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature for terms, famous names, etc. It will help make the reading more understandable.) September 21 Wednesday: Opening the canon Readings: Ise Monogatari (book) September 26 Monday: A World of Signs. Readings: Finish Ise Monogatari; Marra, A Lesson to the Leaders: Ise Monogatari and the Code of Miyabi, (NYU CLASSES) September 28 Wednesday: How to do Things with Words Readings: LaMarre, Uncovering Heian Japan, October 3 Monday: The Materiality of the Text Readings: LaMarre, Uncovering Heian Japan, ; Raud, The Lover s Subject, (NYU CLASSES); Shirane, Seasons, (NYU CLASSES); Assignments: (1) Write two acrostic poems (4 or 5 lines long each). Be prepared to share these in class. October 5 Wednesday: Gendering Language Readings: LaMarre, Uncovering Heian Japan, ; Cornyetz, excerpt from Dangerous Women, 78-81; Mostow, Painted Poems (Meech- Pekarik in class copies) October 10 Monday: no classes October 12 Wednesday: Poetry written in Chinese Readings: Kanshi (Dance of the Butterflies) (NYU Classes)

7 7 Paper One due midnight Friday, October 14, by to October 17 Monday: Sei Shonagon proto-feminist? Readings: Sei Shonagon, Pillowbook, 1-99; D Eteheverry, The Women s Court: Theory and Practice, (NYU CLASSES) October 19 Wednesday: Zuihitsu 2 Readings: Sei Shonagon, Pillowbook, ; Fukumori, Chinese Learning, (NYU CLASSES) Assignment: (1) make your own list. (2) Write a zuihitsu entry (less than 1 page long). (3) be ready to share these in class. October 24 Monday: Monogatari 1 View: The Illustrated handscroll tale of Genji (VCA 5274 ) Readings: Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, Evening Faces, and Heartvine (NYU CLASSES) October 26 Wednesday: Women Possessed Readings: Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, Sarra, The Poetics of Voyeurism, ; (All on NYU CLASSES) October 31 Monday: On Heian Women s Literature Readings: Kimi and Yoda, A Feminist Reinterpretation ; Bryant, Forced Affection (NYU Classes) Part Two -- Early Modern Japan, Edo November 2 Wednesday: The nô theater, time and space (in class video) Terasaki, Introduction. (NYU classes) Paper TWO due midnight on Friday, November 4, by to n.cornyetz@gmail.com November 7 Monday: Nô Readings: Zeami(?), The Shrine in the Fields, (NYU CLASSES) TERASAKI, Epilogue (NYU classes) November 9 Wednesday: Not About Representation; in class bunraku play Readings: The Love Suicides at Amijima (NYU CLASSES) November 14 Monday Strategies of Narration 1 Readings: Sakai, Supplement (NYU Classes)

8 8 November 16 Wednesday: Pornography and Advertising in Edo Readings: Pollack, Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama and Art, in Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field ; Timon Screech, Sex and the Floating World, (NYU CLASSES) November 21 Monday: Loving men Readings: Saikaku, The Great Mirror of Male Love, 1-68; No class November 23 Wednesday, Thanksgiving Break November 28 Monday: Dangerous Women 1 -- Ueda Akinari, A Serpent s Lust, in Shirane, Early Modern Japanese Literature, Selections from Paul, Women in Buddhism (NYU CLASSES) November 30 Wednesday: Humor Readings: Shirane, Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books (NYU CLASSES) December 5 Monday: Young, Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba, (NYU CLASSES) December 7 Wednesday: Nativism and Overcoming Ri Readings: Shirane, Motoori Norinaga ; Sakai, Preface (NYU CLASSES) December 12 Monday: Decentering the Subject Readings: Karatani, One Nineteenth Century (NYU CLASSES) December 13 TUESDAY: Video TBD. December 14, Wednesday sushi party! Paper Three due by midnight, Friday, December 15, by to n.cornyetz@gmail.com