HIS 227 / PSC 227, POWER AND AUTHORITY
IN NONWESTERN SOCIETIES

SPRING SEMESTER 2003

ASSIGNMENT EIGHTEEN
DUE: MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2003

On the evidence supplied by your reading and online explorations, discuss the basis for the cultural "power" and "authority" accumulated by The Tale of Genij over the centuries in Japan; account for its eventual triumph as such an important cultural resource and influence, not just in the literary world but within the larger Japanese aesthetic environment.