This class is an introductory survey of the literature of Asia,
with a specific focus on India, China and Japan. The course focuses
on fiction, poetry, and religious texts. The approach to Asian
literature is hybrid: both critical and creative. In addition to
learning the major movements and important writers of India, China
and Japan from antiquity until today, students will learn to write
in Asian literary forms, such as the upanishad, the ghazal, the
cut-verse quatrain, the haiku, the tanka, and the zuihitsu.
- Teacher: Tony Barnstone