ENGL 5468 Intro to Japan Lit & Culture

Japanese literature & culture is a course that takes the student from the era of the founding of mythology of japan as illustrated in Kojiki (circa 600 AD) and the compilation of early poetry in modernist literary expressions of the present that began in 1868 with the restoration of emperor Meiji as illustrated in the poetry, short stories, novels, and movies of the 20th and 21st centuries.