Dialogue Focus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnt4CSZVJy8
Watch the video, and contemplate how listening to the epic on this kind may have an effect on the best way we because the viewers perceive the epic. A lot of our Heian literary masterpieces had been supposed to be learn as textual content (however had been additionally learn aloud, and due to this fact skilled as an oral efficiency in a salon context,) whereas Heike was first primarily circulated orally. Talk about the pacing of the biwa hoshi performer within the youtube video (for instance, across the time ~three:30 the pacing adjustments, and adjustments once more ~6:40.) Japanese audio system or college students of Japanese in our class: how simple is that this Japanese epic to know?
For this week’s readings, talk about how 1) spiritual apply and a couple of) political ability are represented within the first Four chapters of Heike. My working assumption in asking you to give attention to these elements of the textual content is that the determine of the warrior is as a lot outlined by his or her (sure, Heike has some nice feminine warriors too!) spiritual apply and political astuteness as by his or her actions and look on the battle discipline. Lastly, for this week I’d like us to start out significantly tracing the narratorial angle in direction of authority and challenges to authority in Heike. In sum, along with the dialogue immediate above on the efficiency of Heike, please talk about Heike’s representations in Chapters 1-Four of:
spiritual apply and outlook/world-view
political astuteness and ethical motion
the textual content’s angle in direction of authority and challenges to authority
As we work on all this and actually get into the Heike storyline, begin to kind a way of what you suppose the “affective and philosophical targets of the epic” is perhaps; we’ll get into this extra totally subsequent week.
