授業の目的 【日本語】
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | By the end of the course, students should be able to
1. understand better some of the complex dynamics of intercultural encounter;
2. think critically about the practice of cultural interpretation;
3. recognize the role of myth and legend in ancient and early modern accounts of travel;
4 theorize the motives for exploration and conquest in the New World;
5 appreciate the importance of early modern slave narratives. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | This year’s theme is foreign encounters that shaped the medieval and early modern periods. We look at a variety of such interactions—first-hand, fictional, and some blurring the lines between them—arising from travel and exploration, war and conquest, commerce, and diplomacy. Central to our enquiry are destabilized antinomies—for instance, insider/outsider, civilized/barbaric—and their role in the evolution of cross-cultural ethics. Throughout, we shall consider what the narrator’s purposes might be and the rhetorical strategies used to achieve them.
Our readings begin with medieval travelogues that occupy the borderland between fact and folklore (The Travels of Marco Polo and John Mandeville’s The Book of Marvels and Travels), before moving to early modern records of exploration and imperialism in the New World (Christopher Columbus’s Journal and Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana). We shall pay particular attention to point of view in accounts of conquest by pairing excerpts from Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s The True History of the Conquest of New Spain with indigenous perspectives in The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (ed. Miguel León-Portilla). The course then examines epics of empire, Luís Vaz de Camões’s The Lusiads and Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, alongside Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, The Wrath of God, a cinematic deconstruction of the conquistador figure. In the final stretch, we turn to the 17th and 18th centuries, concentrating on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s observations of women’s social spheres and liberties in the Ottoman Empire (The Turkish Embassy Letters), then concluding with foundational slave narratives (Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography). |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | 15% Participation in discussion
15% Brief Presentation
30% In-class Midterm
40% In-class Final |
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教科書・テキスト
Textbook | | | All required materials will be made available to students. |
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参考書
Reference Book | | | Details to be provided in class. |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | | Students will be required to undertake reading and writing assignments outside of class. |
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履修取り下げ制度（利用の有無）学部のみ
Course withdrawal | | If you submit the Course Withdrawal Form by the deadline, "W(Absence)" will be given in principle. Otherwise the grade will be "F" unless you meet the passing criteria.
『履修取り下げ届』を期日までに提出した場合は原則「Ｗもしくは欠席」となりますが、同届を提出しない場合は成績評価が行われ、合格基準に達しない場合は「Ｆ」となります。 |
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備考
Others | | |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | B-3）Face-to-face course（Including some remote classes using both simultaneous interactive and on-demand methods)
※The number of remote classes must be less than 7 out of 15 classes. |
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