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LIT200BC(文学 / Literature 200)
日本文芸研究特講(6)現代C

Satoshi KOUGUCHI

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Faculty/Graduate school Faculty of Letters
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Year 2021
Class code A2679
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Term 春学期授業/Spring
Day/Period 木6/Thu.6
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷
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Grade
Credit(s) 2
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Open Program
Open Program (Notes)
Global Open Program
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Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers (Notes)
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SDGs CP
Urban Design CP
Diversity CP
Learning for the Future CP
Carbon Neutral CP
Chiyoda Campus Consortium
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他学科公開科目
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Day or Night 夜間時間帯

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Read the Works of “Postwar Literature”

In this class, we consider the possibility of literature as criticism. For this purpose, we are going to read the works of “postwar literature.”
“Postwar literature” includes the works which described the experiences and memories of World War Ⅱ. Why do we read the works of “postwar literature” now? World War Ⅱ and defeating in the war were the frustration all Japanese people had at that time. At present, everybody knows Japan (and the rest of the world) face historical turning points by the influence of the coronavirus. However, nobody knows how our world will change in the future when things turn to normal. Importantly, we shouldn’t think that this is a kind of natural disaster, but we should think that we focus on the problems occurring among human beings in this crisis and that we make use of rebuilding the normal society after going away the coronavirus. We need to study history and literature in order to learn from the past and consider the present relatively.
It has been 76 years since Japan defeated in World War Ⅱ. Japanese people probably spend that period without thinking about the war and defeating in the war so much. Criticism unfolded in “postwar literature” has been existed until now. Reading various literary works, each of us wants to inspect this.

Default language used in class

日本語 / Japanese