Japanese 100B (Spring 14)
Susan Blakeley Klein
HIB 479, Off#824-8165; H#856-9037
email: sbklein@uci.edu
office hours: Mon 1-2, Tues 12:30-1:30 and by appointment
Class Description:
This is the second course in a two-quarter series designed to introduce the student to classical Japanese grammar through the reading of selected literary genres, including poetry from the Kokinshu imperial anthology, a medieval noh play, and Edo period fiction. Emphasis throughout will be on reading comprehension, with special emphasis on a thorough understanding of grammar and syntax. Some attention will also be given to figurative language, literary conventions, and thematic reading.
Class Requirements:
2 midterms and a final (30% each)
Class attendance/ participation/ worksheet and translation exercises (10%).
NOTE: This quarter you will be expected to look up any suffix or particle that you don't know in Classical Japanese and should be prepared to give a basic definition in class. You must come to class with both the grammar and a basic translation ready. We will also do some basic dictionary work
POLICY ON MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS/EXAMS: At my discretion. Please inform me ahead of time if you cannot meet a deadline or take an exam and explain why!
Class Email: 28600-S14@classes.uci.edu
Email archive: https://eee.uci.edu/classmail/S14/28600/
Links to Course Packets
Schedule:
| 3/31 Waka Poetry | Rhetorical Devices in Japanese Poetry: b. Read introduction to Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poets 100 Poems) c. Analyze and translate poem #3 and try to answer Grammar and Thematic Questions (see images of yamadori 1, 2, and 3) |
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| 4/2 | Poems from Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poets 100 Poems): poems #2 (see image of Ama no Kaguyama), #3 |
| 4/4 | Class Cancelled |
| 4/7 | poems #7, 8, 10 |
| 4/9 | a. Translate #8 AS A POEM (submit by dropbox by 5:00 pm Tuesday 4/8 b. poems 53, 409 |
| 4/11 | a. Provide an imaginary context for 409 (submit by dropbox by 5:00 pm Thursday 4/11) b. poems 797 |
| 4/16 | a. Translate 938 (submit by dropbox by 5 pm Tuesday 4/15) b. 160, 225, 257 |
| 4/18 | Tameaki poem, Ise monogatari dan 4 and 9 poems |
| 4/21 | review (midterm 1 prep, review sheet on conjecture suffixes) |
| 4/23 | Midterm 1 |
4/25 Kakitsubata: Introduction to Noh |
1) Read the introductory material, including "key words." Look through ALL of the materials to make sure that you know what is there, including thematic questions, footnotes, vocabulary, dictionary photocopies, and the two versions of the play, one with a partial translation. The last few pages are from an utaibon (libretto) used in the Kita school of Noh. 2) Read through this webpage on Rhetorical Devices in Noh and try to make sense of it. What rhetorical devices used in poetry are also used in Noh? What new forms develop for Noh? 3) If you've never seen or learned about Noh theater, read Royall Tyler's "General Introduction" to Japanese Nō Dramas (Penguin Books, 1992), pp. 1-21. |
| 4/28 | Read English translation lines 1-3 and read and translate p. 259 [lines 4-6] in the Japanese. For vocabulary items that indicate "look at photocopy of dictionary" read the relevant entries in the PHOTOCOPIES of the Iwanami kogo jiten for that vocabulary item. You will be expected to give all the possible definitions in class. Make sure you look at the thematic questions and footnotes as well. |
| 4/30 | Read and translate p. 259 [10], 260 [1-2]. Dictionary assignment: for blank vocabulary items LOOK UP in a kogo jiten (available in the library or in the department). For a list of dictionary call numbers, click here. |
| 5/2 | p. 260 [6-10] |
| 5/5 | p. 261 [4-13] |
| 5/7 | p. 262 [10-14]; 263 [8-13] |
| 5/9 | p. 263 [11-13]; 265 [2-5] |
| 5/12 | 265 [5-14]] |
| 5/14 | p. 266 [1-6] |
| 5/16 | Review, negatives |
5/19 |
Midterm 2 |
| 5/21Saikaku: Edo Period Prose | ASSIGNED LINES Lines 1-9 |
| 5/23 | Lines 11-24 |
| 5/26 | Memorial Day Holiday |
| 5/28 | 24-38 |
| 6/2 | 38-44 plus review |
| 6/4 | final exam |
| 6/6 | party! |
| 6/11 | No scheduled final Exam |
