CULTURAL STUDIES: From Romantic Poetry to Taipei Streets

TEACHER:
Kate Chiwen Liu¡@

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ONLINE JOUNRAL
  • Contemporary Publishing Business: Regulation and Means of Production
  • The Making of the Monster: Identity and Virtual Reality

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  • Romantic Love and Quest

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  • Pre-Raphaelite Women
  • Contemporary Images of Women

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  • Cultural Imperialism, Campus Folksong & Taiwanese Consumer
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OBJECTIVES:¡@
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I. This course¡@ is designed for those who are interested in¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
  • Literary Criticism and/or more trainkng in critical thinking;¡@
  • the issues of identity in the circuit of culture (see Right);
  • putting literature in a broader cultural context
  • 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 Series
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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:¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
  • ¡@Romantic quest narratives;¡@
  • ¡@Pre-Raphaelite counter-quest narratives;¡@
  • 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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    ¡@ Tentative Syllabus
    Date
    theory
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    1. 9/18 Introduction: cultural studies, culture and identity¡@ R.1* "Cultural studies: an introd."
    ¡@* the Cultural Studies Reader
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    Marxist approach:¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    ideology, production and regulation¡@
    Romantic (Victoricn) Quest--'Wordsworth, Keats,¡@ Tennyson, Mary Shelly¡@
    2. 9/25
    Marxist theories of production, regulation and¡@¡@¡@ ideology R.2
    poems from Lyrical Ballads and its preface
    3. 10/2
  • Romantic quest narratives
  • "The Eve of St. Agnes";¡@
    "Ode to Psyche"
    4. 10/9
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  • high art vs. popular culture: Culture industry R.3
  • "Lady of Shallot," Frankenstein
    5. 10/16; 10/23; 30
  • Culture Talk: kmages of Frankenstein's monster,¡@

  • ¡@ 1. Frankenstein, 2. Romantic Passion,¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    ¡@ 3. Contemporary Publishing Business
    Frankenstein
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    II.
    Representation & Semiotic Approach: encoding and decoding¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    Feminist Approach: image of woman¡@
    Pre-Raphaelite paintkng cnd poetry¡@
    6. 11/6
  • structuralism, semiotics R.4 "The Work of Representation" (1-3)
  • Pre-Raphaelite Women in paintings
    7. 11/13¡@
  • Semiotics: practice --music video, commercials, & ads¡@
  • John Berger's Ways of Seeing (& psychoanalytic feminism)
  • D. G. Rossetti's painting and poetry
    8. 11/20
  • Ways of Seeing: practice--PR paintings, ads, etc.
  • discourse/power (Foucault)"R.4 (4-5)
  • 9. 11/27
  • C. Rossetti: passivity or feminist?¡@
  • Culture Talk: subject, power and visual culture
  • paper proposal due
  • Christina Rossetti
    10. 12/4
  • C. Rossetti: passivity or feminist?¡@
  • Culture Talk:¡@

  • 1. from Romantic Quest to Pre-Raphaelite Women, to images of Taiwanese women¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    2. cultural imperialism and Taiwanese consumption
    Christina Rossetti "Goblin Market"
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    III.¡@

    Postcolonial/Postmodern Approaches to Identities¡@

    (im)migrant & cyborg identitigs in Taiwanese culture
    ¡@11. 12/11¡@ Taiwanese poets, campus folk songs and (im)migration¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    Modernity, postmodernity; & immigrant identies
    poems by¡@ §E¥ú¤¤;(Cf. ³¯¾¤)¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    campus folk songs
    12. 12/18
    ¡@globalization as cultural imperialism?¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    cyborg and imigrant identities
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    13. 12/25
    Holiday
    14. 1/ 1
    Holiday
    17. 1/8
  • Consumption Introd.
  • Frith "Why do songs have words?"¡@
  • Culture Talk & conclusion
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    18. 1/15
    Final Exam
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    TEXTBOOKS¡G¡@Cultural Studies Reader¡@
    REQUIREMENTS:¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@ 
    1. Reading before class and active participation in class is essential.¡@ Any late or absence will affect your final grade.¡@¡@ If you have to be late or absent, please let me know beforehand.¡@ Quizzes will be used to check your progress.¡@
    2. Journan:: one entry every two weeks--20%; (at least one entry in Culture talk)
    3. vwo 4-5-page papers respectively for two sections, and one group report--each 20%
    4. final exam-20% (For group reports, You are encouraged to produce your own homepage.)
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