AQS00101 Invitation to World Literature

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code AQS00101 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name Invitation to World Literature （世界文学への誘い）

Subject Name
（Katakana）セカイブンガクヘノイザナイ

Subject Name in
English Invitation to World Literature

Instructor SCHLARB HANS MICHAEL,KIDO MITSUYO,SUGIKI TSUNEHIKO,JANG KYUNGJAE,FERREIRO POSSE DAMASO,MATOBA IZUMI,RIGSBY CURTIS ANDREW

Instructor
(Katakana) シュラルプ　ハンス　ミヒャエル,キド　ミツヨ,スギキ　ツネヒコ,ジャン　ギョンゼ,フェレイロ　ポッセ　ダマソ,マトバ　イヅミ,リグスビー　カーティス　アンドリュー

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year, Second Semester, 3Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (3T) Mon5-6：IAS K205

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

lecture, presentation, discussion

Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction E : English

Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 23 : Arts and Humanities

Course Area（Discipline） 05 : Literature

Eligible Students students from all faculties

Keywords World literature, American literature, English literature, French literature, French comedy, German literature, Indian literature, modern Japanese literature, Sinophone Mystery, detective fiction, South East Asia, romanticism, revolution, goth culture, exile literature, life of the Buddha, globalism, Goethe, Mary Shelley, Nabokov, Dazai Osamu, Franz Kafka

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) By discussing several works of world literature, this course encourages students to become more acquainted with various cultures and thus deepen and enhance their intercultural competences.
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The abilities and skills to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, and to deliver presentations at a seminar or research meetings, and to answer questions.

Integrated Global Studies
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The ability to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, deliver presentations at seminars or research meetings, and explain it in an easy way so that people in different cultures and areas of specialization understand.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline Factual information provides one way to arrive at a broader understanding of the richness and complexity of cultures, their specific practices, ideas and historical backgrounds. In addition to this rather intellectual access, the careful reading of literary works highly appreciated in these cultures can give us a practical idea of how people really experienced life under these specific conditions. This empathetical approach might not only deepen understanding of a certain culture but also widen horizons in which we perceive the world in general and ourselves as part of it―an attitude of great importance in this increasingly global world.
This course provides an introduction into world literature covering literary works from America, England, France, Germany, Japan, India, as well as Russia. It is conducted by lecturers with different cultural backgrounds, and different areas of expertise. Designed to clarify socio-historical settings of works discussed to aid fruitful understanding, participants consider the role literature plays or has played in different cultures, as well as its contribution to future intercultural understanding.

Class Schedule Lesson 1, Part 1: Guidance; Part 2: The Idea of World Literature in Times of Rising Nationalism: Facets of German Literature 1795-1835
Lesson 2: Reading Arya Shura's Garland of Birth Stories (Jatakamala): Ancient Indian Narratives of the Buddha's Previous Lives
Lesson 3: Humor and Fear: How to Read Kafka
Lesson 4: The Rise of Gothic Culture and Its Evolution: From "Frankenstein“ to "The Walking Dead“
Lesson 5: World Literature and Vladimir Nabokov
Lesson 6: Considering Transnational Popular Literature from Sinophone Mystery

Lesson 7: Rethinking the concept of World Literature: the Role Modern Japanese Literature Assumes in it
Lesson 8: The Origin & Structure of the Bible

Students are required to hand in a paper at the end or to present a paper in class.

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Primary sources:
Lesson 1: Damrosch, David. What Is World Literature? Princeton, Oxford, 2003. (1st chapter, p. 1-36)
Lesson 2: Meiland, Justin. Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives Vols. 1 and 2 (Clay Sanskrit Library), Clay Sanskrit, 2017.

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details) DVD, PC, handouts

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review As works of literature are notoriously difficult to appreciate by summary alone, students are advised to read as many works as possible before the course starts.

Requirements

Grading Method Report, class performance.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	AQS00101	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Invitation to World Literature （世界文学への誘い）
Subject Name （Katakana）	セカイブンガクヘノイザナイ
Subject Name in English	Invitation to World Literature
Instructor	SCHLARB HANS MICHAEL,KIDO MITSUYO,SUGIKI TSUNEHIKO,JANG KYUNGJAE,FERREIRO POSSE DAMASO,MATOBA IZUMI,RIGSBY CURTIS ANDREW
Instructor (Katakana)	シュラルプ　ハンス　ミヒャエル,キド　ミツヨ,スギキ　ツネヒコ,ジャン　ギョンゼ,フェレイロ　ポッセ　ダマソ,マトバ　イヅミ,リグスビー　カーティス　アンドリュー
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, Second Semester, 3Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(3T) Mon5-6：IAS K205
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
lecture, presentation, discussion
Credits	1.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area（Discipline）	05 : Literature
Eligible Students	students from all faculties
Keywords	World literature, American literature, English literature, French literature, French comedy, German literature, Indian literature, modern Japanese literature, Sinophone Mystery, detective fiction, South East Asia, romanticism, revolution, goth culture, exile literature, life of the Buddha, globalism, Goethe, Mary Shelley, Nabokov, Dazai Osamu, Franz Kafka
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	By discussing several works of world literature, this course encourages students to become more acquainted with various cultures and thus deepen and enhance their intercultural competences.
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework. （Abilities and Skills）・The abilities and skills to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, and to deliver presentations at a seminar or research meetings, and to answer questions. Integrated Global Studies （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines. （Abilities and Skills）・The ability to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, deliver presentations at seminars or research meetings, and explain it in an easy way so that people in different cultures and areas of specialization understand.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	Factual information provides one way to arrive at a broader understanding of the richness and complexity of cultures, their specific practices, ideas and historical backgrounds. In addition to this rather intellectual access, the careful reading of literary works highly appreciated in these cultures can give us a practical idea of how people really experienced life under these specific conditions. This empathetical approach might not only deepen understanding of a certain culture but also widen horizons in which we perceive the world in general and ourselves as part of it―an attitude of great importance in this increasingly global world. This course provides an introduction into world literature covering literary works from America, England, France, Germany, Japan, India, as well as Russia. It is conducted by lecturers with different cultural backgrounds, and different areas of expertise. Designed to clarify socio-historical settings of works discussed to aid fruitful understanding, participants consider the role literature plays or has played in different cultures, as well as its contribution to future intercultural understanding.
Class Schedule	Lesson 1, Part 1: Guidance; Part 2: The Idea of World Literature in Times of Rising Nationalism: Facets of German Literature 1795-1835 Lesson 2: Reading Arya Shura's Garland of Birth Stories (Jatakamala): Ancient Indian Narratives of the Buddha's Previous Lives Lesson 3: Humor and Fear: How to Read Kafka Lesson 4: The Rise of Gothic Culture and Its Evolution: From "Frankenstein“ to "The Walking Dead“ Lesson 5: World Literature and Vladimir Nabokov Lesson 6: Considering Transnational Popular Literature from Sinophone Mystery Lesson 7: Rethinking the concept of World Literature: the Role Modern Japanese Literature Assumes in it Lesson 8: The Origin & Structure of the Bible Students are required to hand in a paper at the end or to present a paper in class.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Primary sources: Lesson 1: Damrosch, David. What Is World Literature? Princeton, Oxford, 2003. (1st chapter, p. 1-36) Lesson 2: Meiland, Justin. Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives Vols. 1 and 2 (Clay Sanskrit Library), Clay Sanskrit, 2017.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)	DVD, PC, handouts
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	As works of literature are notoriously difficult to appreciate by summary alone, students are advised to read as many works as possible before the course starts.
Requirements
Grading Method	Report, class performance.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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