Japanese Culture: Identity and Tradition

What will be required of us in the exam?
Focus on the content of the lectures and the weekly required reading. You won't have to reproduce detailed information from the weekly reading. It wont be directly based on the readings.
There will be a series of short answer section.
The readings is to give you a deeper, more full understanding.

"Discuss the features of Heian literature"
The Tale of Genji (monogatari)
Aspects of the diary form.
The Pillow Book
Women were the primary authors of all that literature.
Answering this successfully depends on the amount of reading you have done.