Session 13: Mujōkan / mono no aware IV: Tale of Genji III

Topics

❖ Tale of Genji, chapters 12, 13, 35, 40
❖ Mono no aware

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

I have waited until now for more extensive comments on mono no aware to emphasize the role of the sweep of a narrative (time) in Murasaki's use of this concept.

Topics within the narrative discussed in terms of mujōkan / aware:

• Suma & Akashi as chapters particularly imbued with a sense of aware
  
• Aging Genji
• Murasaki's death

Other narrative events noted:

• The Third Princess

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Read before class Tale of Genji, chapters 12, 13, 35, 40 in McCullough's abridged edition Genji & Heike.

✓ Review after class the powerpoint I present: aware with some okashi (bSpace, PPT)

Multimedia notes

❖ None.

Links

⇢ None.

Other

Terms and such mentioned this day that are not otherwise in an obvious place on the web site, the powerpoints, the assigned reading, etc. (to help with capturing items mentioned, perhaps quickly, in class, not for test purposes)

None.