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2019年度 春夏講座
06) Comparing Images of Japan

講義内容

The Rugby World Cup will be held in Japan in autumn 2019, and will be closely followed by the 2020 Olympic Games. International attention is focusing on Japan, and Japanese people too are taking stock of their country, and reflecting on how Japan will be viewed by visitors from other countries.
This course offers a selection of books, art, music and films which project diverse images of Japan, from the 19th century up until the present. Considering each of these images of Japan will give us many opportunities for lively discussion.

各回テーマ

(1) Introduction to the course; listen to and discuss the comic opera The Mikado (1885); consider Japonisme

(2) Continue our discussion of The Mikado and Japonisme

(3) Watch extracts from Tokyo Olympiad 『東京オリンピック』(director Ichikawa Kon, 1965), and discuss this film and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

(4) Read extracts from 桐野夏生Kirino Natsuo’s novel Out 『アウト』(1997), and discuss this book and the issues it raises

(5) Watch extracts from Lost in Translation『ロスト?イン?トランスレーション』(director Sofia Coppola, 2003), and discuss this film and the issues it raises

(6) Read extracts from 小島力『わが涙滂々』Kojima Chikara’s poetry collection My Tears Flow Endlessly (2017); discuss this book and the Fukushima nuclear disaster 福島第一原子力発電所事故 following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(7) Read カズオ?イシグロKazuo Ishiguro’s 2017 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and discuss the issues it raises; discuss the forthcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics; concluding discussion

講師紹介

専攻：英文学?比較文学
オックスフォード大学、ロンドン大学卒業。沙巴体育で英文学、文化研究、英語、日本文学を教える（平安文学を好む）。

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