Course Readings:

On Sale in the Book Store:

Steven D. Carter, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology

Helen Craig McCullough, Classical Japanese Prose: an anthology

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, Edward G. Seidensticker, trans.

Royall Tyler, Japanese No Dramas

Donald Keene, Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu

Ihara Saikaku, Five Women Who Loved Love, William Theodore DeBary, trans.

--all items except The Tale of Genji are also on reserve–

Readings on Reserve:

Course Reader

For background and reference:

Earl Miner et al., The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature

Paul H. Varley, Japanese Culture: A Short History

Jinichi Konishi, A History of Japanese Literature, vols 1, 2, & 3

PL717.K6213 1984 v.1-3

Donald Keene, Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from earliest times to the \ late sixteenth century ;

PL726.115.K44 1993

Donald Keene, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the pre-modern era,

Makoto Ueda, Literary and Art Theories in Japan

PL 726.1.M495 1985

Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner, Japanese Court Poetry

PL 727.B7

Further reading for The Tale of Genji:

William H. McCullough, "Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period"

Wakita Haruko, "Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan from the Perspective

Haruo Shirane, The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of ‘The Tale of Genji’

PL 788.4.G43 S464 1987

Norma Field, The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji

PL 788.4.G43 F5 1987

Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji

PL 788.4.G43 A79 1993

Doris G. Bargen, A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possesion in the Tale of Genji

PL788.4.G43 B37 1997

Richard Okada, Figures of Resistance

PL726.2.042 1992

Sources for course reader, also on reserve:

Richard Bowring, Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji. PL788.4.G43 B68 1988

Rimer and Yamazaki, On the art of the nô drama. PN2924.5 N6 Z4213 1984

Helen Craig McCullough, trans., The Tale of the Heike. PL790.H45 E5 1988

Makoto Ueda, Bashô and His Interpreters. PL 794.4.Z5 U39 1991

Electronic and Video Resources:

Middlebury Library Japan Studies Guide

Bibliography of Asian Studies Online (to look up journal articles)

Prof. Michael Watson's Japanese Studies Web Page (Meiji Gakuin University-- lots of good links here)

Prof. Tom Hare's introduction to Japanese drama (Stanford University)

PL788/4 G4 E5 1996 v.1&2

On reserve in Sunderland Media Center:

Classical Japan, 6-12 centuries MCTR 3805.01V

Medieval Japan, 13-17 centuries MCTR 3805.02V

Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868 MCTR 3805.03V