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     2019 年度   世界教養プログラム
  
日本の文学と文化を知る1   
時間割コード
19180176
担当教員(ローマ字表記)
  ミカエル・リュケン, イリス ハウカンプ [Michael Lucken, Iris HAUKAMP]
授業開講形態 授業形態 単位数 学期 曜日・時限 実務経験のある教員による授業
  講義 2 夏学期 集中 -
授業題目(和文)   
 
Title(English)   
[CAAS] Greek Classics in Japan, and the Possession of Cultures
 
授業の目標   
 
Goals of the course   
This course provides students with an overview of the reception of Greek Classics in Japan and its meaning in terms of cultural appropriation.
 
授業の概要   
 
Overview of the course   
Many references to Greek history, art, philosophy, and literature can be found throughout the twentieth century in most fields of Japanese culture. The importance of classical Greece in Mishima Yukio’s plays and novels, or in Miyazaki Hayao’s famous animes is not exceptional, but on the contrary a characteristic feature of Japanese modern culture. After a historic overview of the Japanese encounter with Greek arts and literature, we shall compare with other similar reception processes (Germany and Africa in particular). We shall conclude with a reflection on the issue of appropriation/belonging/ possession of cultures.
 
キーワード   
 
Keywords   
Greece, Classics, culture, appropriation, Westernization, global history
 
授業の計画   
 
Plan   
Day 1: The Western Model.
Session 1. Introduction.
Required Reading: Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and
Method (Part II-1, “Historical Preparation”).
Session 2. Classical Greece and the Western imperial order.
Required Reading: Phiroze Vasunia. The Classics and
Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2011: 1-30; 335-
349.
Session 3: Greece in the Japonist imaginary.
Required Reading: Ono, Ayako. Japonisme in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and Nineteenth-century Japan. Routledge, 2003.

Question: What are the premises of the reception in Japan of Greek classical culture?

Day 2: A Historical Overview.
Session 1. From the “Christian Century” to the Meiji era.
Required Reading: Araki, James T., “Yuriwaka and Ulysses. The Homeric Epics at the Court of Ouchi Yoshitaka”, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 33-1, 1978, p. 1-36.
Session 2. Taishō and the Prewar period.
Required Reading: Nara, Hiroshi. “The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan’s Cultural Dreams”, in M. Nguyen (ed.),
New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics. Lexington Books, 2018: 155-166.
Session 3: From the Postwar to the Present.
Required Reading: Amitrano, Giorgio. “Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki’s novels and in Other Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature”, in J. McConnell, E. Hall (ed), Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989. Bloomsbury, 2016: 91-104.

Question: What are the main phases of this process?

Day 3: Overcoming the West.
Session 1. The entasis of the Hōryūji Temple.
Required Reading: Aoki Girardelli, Miyuki. “Tracing Origins Along the Silk Road: Japanese. Architect Itō Chūta's Travel in the Ottoman Lands”, in Japan on the Silk Road. Brill, 2018: 245-258.
Session 2. The Japanese and the Greeks: a natural
connection.
Required Reading: Aso, Noriko. "Greece of the East: Philhellenism in Imperial Japan", in K. Bassi and P. Euben (ed.), When Worlds Elide: Classics, Politics, Culture. Lexington Books: 19-42.
Session 3: Film: Howl's Moving Castle (2004). Mythical References in Miyazaki’s movies.
Required Reading: Peer, Ayelet. “Thermae Romae Manga: plunging into the gulf between ancient Rome and modern Japan”, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies. N°12, 2018: 57-67.

Question: Is there a mechanism behind cultural assimilation?

Day 4: Comparisons.
Session 1. The German Griechenmythos.
Required Reading: Butler, Elizabeth. The Tyranny of Greece over Germany. Beacon Press, 1958.
Session 2. Greece and Pan-Africanism
Required Reading: Withun, David. “African Americans and the Classics: An Introduction”, Black Perspectives. Sept. 7, 2017.
Session 3: Film: The reception of Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1938) in Japan.
Required Reading: 多木浩二著「オリンピア」 『映像の歴史 哲学』みすず書房、2013年、頁131-171.

Question: Are the Classics a “common good”?

Day 5: From Imagination to Possession.
Session 1. A Japanese Classicism.
Required Reading: Marra, Michael. “Coincidentia oppositorium: the Greek genealogies of Japan”, in Marra, Michael (éd.) Japanese hermeneutics: current debates on aesthetics and interpretation. University of Hawai'i Press, 2002: 142-152.
Session 2. Mishima and the Greek Body.
Required Reading: Cardi, Luciana. “Ancient Greece and Contemporary Japan in Mishima Yukio’s Theatre: Niobe and The Decline and Fall of The Suzaku”, Gengo bunka kenkyū. 41, 2015: 163-179.
Session 3: The challenges of “Common History”.
Required Reading: Drayton, Richard and Motadel, David. “Discussion: the futures of global history”, Journal of Global History. 13 (1), 2018: 1-21.

Question: Can possession be reconciled with plurality?
 
成績評価の方法・基準   
 
Grading system for assessment   
essay of 2,000 words (70%)
presentation (20%)
attendance and participation (10%)
 
事前・事後学習【要する時間の目安】   
 
Preview/review   
See syllabus. For the first day, read
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (Part II-1, “Historical Preparation”).
 
履修上の注意   
 
Notes   
The class size is limited to 25 students, at the discretion of the instructor.
 
教科書  
 
参考書  
 
使用言語  
英語(E*) 一部日本語を含む
 
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