OBJECTIVES:¡@
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I. This
course¡@ is designed for those who are interested in¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@
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Literary Criticism and/or more trainkng in critical thinking;¡@
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the issues of identity in the circuit of culture (see Right);
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putting literature in a broader cultural context
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doing Cultural Studies in daily life or in a graduate program.¡@
II. The scope of Cultural Studies is
as broad and variously defined as culture itself.¡@ Almost every discipline
in the Humantities can do Cultural Studies.¡@¡@ Even the more clearly defined
British Cultural Studies --an academic discipline initiated by the¡@ Birmingham
School--covers a wide range of¡@ approaches and concerns from Marxism,
Semiotic, Feminism/Gender Studies, to Postmodernism and Postcolonialism. |
"circuit of culture" from Culture, Media, Identities
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III. Doing
Cultural Studies in an English Department in Taiwan, this course has
the theme of identity as a focus--discussing what certain¡@ identities
mean or how they get produced, represented & circulated in literature
as well as in culture.¡@ The identities we will examine are:¡@ those of
Romantic quest hero, Pre-Raphaelite women, English and Taiwanese [im]migrants.¡@
Taking the above-¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@
mentioned approaches, we will follow the "travel" of culture from Romanticism
to Taipei street and "visit" the following areas:¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@
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¡@Romantic quest narratives;¡@
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¡@Pre-Raphaelite counter-quest narratives;¡@
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Modern/Contemporary Taiwanese (im)migrant and cyborg narratives in literature
and popular culture
IV. Do these sorts of identities constitute
part of Taiwanese, or our, idgntities?¡@ To this question, we will
not get a fixed or uniform answer, since both Taiwanese and our personal
identities are constantly changing.¡@ What this course hopes to achieve,
however, is for ws all to be critically aware of the interactions
bevween different texts, or cultural spheres, kn literature as well as
our daily life, and, most importantly their effects on the issues of identity.¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@
V. As a web-assisted coursg,
this course offers¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@
vivid materials on the web to assist our reading of literature,
spaces for interactions among us
guidance for¡@ explorkng the literary/theoretical sites on the web.
* Please read the general instructions
on how to use the web materials.¡@ |
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