Spring 1998

ASIAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS

FLAN 2315

TTh 12:15-1:30

Dr. Frontain

An introduction to the literature, music, art, and folk traditions of China, India, and Japan, this course satisfies the humanities elective in the General Education requirements

Texts:

• R. K. Narayan, The Ramavana (Penguin)
• Dream of Red Mansions (Commercial)
• Mo Yan, Red Sorshum (Penguin)
• Basho, Haiku Journey (Kodansha)
• Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji (Random House)
• Ihara Saikaku, Great Mirror (Stanford UP)
• Yukio--Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (New Directions)
  
  
  
                  Film Showings:

                                 *Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy"

                                 *"Eat, Drink, Man, Woman"

                                 *"Woman of the Dunes"

                                 *others to be announced

For more information, contact Dr. Frontain (Irby 421)

raymondf@mail.uca.edu

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