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School of Letters Department of Humanities Literature Course English Linguistics & Literature Major Major (Credit 2) Intended Year: Intended School: |
American Literature (Seminar IV)
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM2586J Course Code: 2026 FallTerm weekly Mon3 Ito Classroom E/J科目 (日本語, English) |
| Course Overview |
Ernest Hemingway is one of the defining authors of the twentieth century and a central figure in American modernist literature. He is known for many works, including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, yet the view that his finest achievements lie in his early short fiction is widely shared among scholars. In this seminar, offered as separate courses in the first and second semesters, students will engage with Hemingway's short stories written primarily in the 1920s—including "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River"—and undertake close readings of these masterpieces of American prose, crafted with consummate skill by the young Hemingway. The course has two main objectives. The first is to read the works with rigorous attention to detail and to discuss in class what issues have been at stake in the critical history surrounding them and what new interpretations might be possible. Through this process, students will learn the importance of close reading not only in relation to Hemingway but to literary works more broadly. The second objective is to translate selected passages from the works and discuss as a group what constitutes an appropriate rendering in Japanese. Through this translation work, students will pursue a deeper understanding of the texts while also gaining an introduction to translation studies, a field that has increasingly established itself as an independent area of scholarly inquiry in recent years. |
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