世界文学と東アジアI（２）

This course is designed to introduce the students to the trends of modern Chinese literature as they pertain not only to the representation of Chinese society, but to the problematic of “world literature” as well. Selected readings, in the form of excerpts from the canonical work, cut across the essayistic, lyrical, as well as narrative threads and lineages to converge on the notions of a concrete worldly life and men in action as they are represented and imitated through literature broadly defined. Through problematizing the cultural-political implications of these literary texts, the course aims at critically exposing all the dilemmas, aporias, tensions, and potentials of historicity that possibly embraced by the term “world literature” against the particular context of Chinese modernity. In terms of its pedagogical and critical end, the course is comparative and analytical in nature rather than merely literary historical.