teaching with "Rashomon"

[Li Hoo Cheong]

The Akutagawa story is entitled "In the Grove" and should
be in more than one collections of Akutagawa's short stories 
in English.

H. C. Li
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>  Please forgive me if portions of this request are 
>stultifying: I don't have access to the web or to my 
>university library for some days and am trying to draft 
>a course description which would use the film and 
>the (translated) script of "Rashomon" and its 
>literary sources for a sort of mid-level comparative 
>lit. course on hermeneutics, theory, etc. I imagine 
>that this has been done often. What I wonder is whether 
>any list members would be kind enough to share 
>their experiences (or syllabi, for that matter) using 
>Rashomon as a teaching text, and (this is the 
>embarrassing part) might clue me in on the sources 
>(I'd assumed the film was based on Akutagawa's story 
>of the same title and this is obviously not so). 
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>  thanks for any help 
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>Lewis Cook 
>Queens College CUNY 
>Lewis_Cook at qc.edu
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