Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2020
Melissa McCormick
Mondays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Examines Japanese narrative picture scrolls (emaki) focusing on examples from the 12th to the 16th c. Provides training in reading scroll texts (kotobagaki) and analyzing paintings from formal, narratological, and historical perspectives. Aims to make picture scrolls available as a primary source for graduate research in a variety of disciplines.