Literature

This module in particular builds on previous knowledge acquired during the students’ bachelor courses in literary studies. With regard to literary history, Japan literature is viewed from within its European context based on its epochs and trends. The students deal with central motifs of Japan and European literature and work together on key texts of literary theory. The mediaeval tradition in particular offers students a new approach to the trans-European idea based on selected examples: intertextuality is viewed as an intercultural moment from a motif-historical perspective.