| Seminar on Chaucer | Dr. Marguerite Connor |
| Survey of African American Poetry | Dr. Raphael Schulte |
| 20th Century American Drama | Ms. Cecilia H.C. Liu |
| North American Women's Fiction | Dr. Kate C.W. Liu |
| 19th-20th Cent. Eng-Amer Satire | Fr. Daniel Bauer |
| The Metaphysical Poetry of Donne & Hopkins | Fr. Pierre Demers |
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Seminar on Chaucer / Dr. Marguerite Connor |
An in-depth introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, hopefully in the original. I'm hoping that we can read "The Book of the Duchess," "The Parliament of Fowles," "Troilus and Cresyde" and a substantial portion of The Canterbury Tales. This is subject to change based on reading success. We will also look at some secondary and biographical sources. Requirements include a short (3-5 pp) reaction paper, a research paper (10-15 pp), an oral report based on one's research and a final exam. Text book: TBA
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Survey of African American Poetry /Dr. Raphael Schulte |
In this course we will explore the unique literary traditions of African American poetry, beginning with early colonial poets like Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton and including such nineteenth and early twentieth century poets as James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Sterling Brown. Along the way, I would also like to spend a class listening to and discussing the lyrics of spirituals and gospel songs. Also, to understand the range of African American poetry in the twentieth century, I think that it is important for us to devote several weeks discussing lyrics from blues songs and work songs. Also, we will spend several weeks discussing the relationship of Harlem Renaissance poets--such as Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay, Countee Cullen, and Jean Toomer--to modernism. Finally, we will look at the work of such contemporary poets as Etheridge Knight, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, and Rita Dove.
African American poetries written in the last two hundred years are quite diverse: we cannot hope to cover the entire range. Because of that, the contents, for this course are not completely determined yet, so if students have specific choices for poets or poems that they would like to included in this course, please fell free to let me know.
As is usual for my classes, we will not have a standard textbook, since most anthologies covering the range of poets that we will read are no longer in print or are unavailable in Taiwan because of copyright restrictions. Instead of a text, I will provide handouts every week. Students will be expected to read the handouts, as well as do ongoing reading in the social and historical contexts for the poets we will be studying.
Most of our class time will be spent in discussion. Each student will be responsible for at least one in-class presentation and will have the option of doing two medium length papers--the first due at mid-term--or one longer paper due at the end of the semester.
If students interested in the course have questions or suggestions, they can certainly come talk with me about them.
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20th Century American Drama / Ms. Cecilia C.H. Liu |
Welcome to the wonderful world of 20th CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA. We will experience and enjoy the variety and richness of the art of drama in our time. For research's sake, I divide these American Playwrights into three categories: the mainstream for Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, John Guare, and A.R. Gurney; minority playwrights--women and black playwrights--such as Lillian Hellman, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, Martha Norman, and August Wison; gay playwrights--Craig Lucas, Terrence McNally, Larry Kramer, Scott McPherson, and Tony Krushner. As you see, we have a great deal of material to work with. Let me know your interest and we can work out the schedule together.
Requirement: 1) Each class meeting will be led by one of you students by means of presentation, questions/ discussion, or whatever effective method(s) you like to use. 2) Regular attendance with preparation and class participation are expected. 3) Five short papers (5 pages each) on any of the selected plays.
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North American Women's Fiction / Dr. Kate Liu |
"Who are you?" said the caterpiller.
Alice replied rather shyly, 'I -- I hardly know, Sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.'"
Under the impact of feminism and postcolonialism on the one hand, postmodernisms on the other, writing stories about women's selves is necessary but difficult. Self-Construction means also construction of a certain history (familial, ethnic, national, or trans-national?) and/or a certain space (home, city, margins), but then neither history nor space can be assumed to be pre-given or natural, not to mention the idea of self. With the awareness of both the necessity and difficulties (if not impossibilities) of self-constructions, what are the possible strategies North American women writers used? Irony, Double-talking, fantasy, metafiction, and what else? If these strategies are used both by white and minority woman writers, where do we draw the line between postmodernism and postcolonialism? Are there differences between American writers and their Canadian counterparts?
U.S. |
Canada |
| 1. white Housekeeping (Marylyn Robinson) A Book of Common Prayer (Joan Didion) 2. minorities |
Cat's Eye or Bodily Harm
(Margaret Atwood) Intertidal Life or Real Mothers (Audrey Thomas-American Canadian) Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (Alice Munro) Disappearing Moon Cafe (Sky Lee) |
Requirements:
1. 100-page novel reading or 50-page novel reading + one theory article (two theory articles for students from the doctoral program)
2. in-class report
3. paper proposal
4. final paper
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19th-20th Cent. Eng-Amer Satire /Fr. Daniel Bauer |
This course offers a theoretical and practical overview on the genre of satire in the English an American tradition, and focuses specific attention on representative writers of satire. To illustrate the development of the genre of satire in world literature, some previous to the 19th century, students will view brief hand-out samples (8-10 pages each author) from Voltaire's Candide, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Bertold Brecht's drama Joseph Andrews, and Charles Dickens's Bleak House. The main work of the course however will be careful reading and student/instructor discussion of the whole of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and
probably one of his short stories. Students will write a personal reaction reflective paper 8-10 pages, due mid-term examination week, and a final more academic paper 15-20 pages, due final exam week.
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