Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- give an account of the outline of the history and development of Japanese haiku
- explain and problematize the relationship between genres like haiku, renku, haibun and haiga
- evaluate different interpretations of haiku and renku, and thereby formulate their own interpretations
- argue independent percpectives on haiku-related theoretical and literary texts
- write simple haiku and renku and discuss these.
Course Content
In this course, haiku and different haiku-related genres of poetry, prose and visual art are studied. The students will read, interpret and analyze a large number of modern as well as classical poems. To put these in a historical and cultural context, they will also read and discuss a few literary and theoretical texts in which haiku and haiku aesthetics are treated. They will also write a number of poems of their own and engage in creative and critical discussion about their own poems and the poems of others.
Assessment
The course is examined through evaluation of students‘ constructive contributions to the class discussions and forums, and by written assignments.
Forms of Study
Teaching is carried out in the form of teacher guided seminars, group work and through independent work with analysis and written assignments. Japanese is used as the language of tuition. Swedish or English may, in rare cases, be used as support languages.
Grades
The Swedish grades U–VG.
Prerequisites
- Japanese III: Language Proficiency, 15 credits, Japanese III: The Modern Short Story, 7.5 credits and Japanese III: Reading Manga, 7.5 credits, First Cycle