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10:10 |
Chinese Literature |
Research and Bibliography |
Literary Criticism I |
Early 20th Century American Short Fiction |
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1:40 |
Seminar on Fitzgerald and Hemingway |
English Writing I |
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20th Century Irish Poetry |
Postcolonial Theory & Criticism |
Renaissance English Poetry |
Required Courses
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Senior Thesis/4 credits |
Third- and fourth-year students must take this course. Be sure to record this course on the registration form.
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This course will help to prepare students for graduate school writing about literature, and thus will provide practice in critical reading, outlining, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, presenting and organizing an argument or analysis, formatting, and multiple drafting. Language use will be focused on throughout all types of practice. The instructor will give close responses of various types to student writing, including individual conferences. Assignments will include a position paper, article review, position paper with documented support, evaluation of an MA thesis, and various exercises.
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Modern literary critics continue to rely on fundamental insights about the meaning, mechanics, and importance of literature as discussed over approximately 2,000 years by writers of Greek antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Romantic period. This course focuses on representative writings of many of those early major critics. We begin with Aristotle and more or less conclude at the end of the 19th century with remarks by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. The basic text is Criticism: The Major Texts, edited by Walter Jackson Bate, available at Shuang Yeh Pub. Co. （雙葉）
Elective Courses
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Seminar on Fitzgerald and Hemingway/2 credits/Bro. Nicholas Koss |
This seminar will study selected short stories and novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway. Students planning to take this course should turn in by June 7 a list of all the works they have read by these two authors. We will then meet in late June to select the works to be read for this seminar.
During this course, the major criticism on these two authors will also be introduced. The relationship between Fitzgerald and Hemingway will be studied, too, as well as the historical background of the first half of the twentieth century. Frequent oral and written reports will be required. Midway through the semester, work will begin on a research paper to be completed for the end of the semester.
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Since at least the ninth century, poetry has played an important role in Irish culture and tradition. In this course we will raise and attempt to answer a variety of questions about Irish poetry in the twentieth century. What, for example, is “Irish” about this poetry? How do Irish history, politics, religion, and culture inform the poems? Does Irish modernism differ from American and English modernisms? What roles have women poets played in twentieth century Irish poetry? How have the “two Irelands” and the political strife informed the poems? I am at this point planning to include the following poets on our reading list, but if there are other poets (or even specific poems) that you are interested in studying, please feel free to tell me. We will begin by looking at examples of Oscar Wilde’s poetry from before the turn of the century. After that we will look at the place of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce in Irish poetry and Irish modernism. We will then read poems of later modernists like Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, and Louis MacNeice. We will also examine the role of poetry in contemporary Ireland by reading poems by Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon.
Because this will be a seminar course, most of our class time will be spent in discussion. Each student will be responsible for two in-class presentations 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.
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Postcolonial Literature & Theory/2 credits/Dr. David S.Y. Yu |
This course will investigate the complex work of the three major representatives of postcolonial theory, Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi K. Bhabha and consider the criticisms they have faced. The course will be roughly divided into three parts: 1. introduction: intellectual and theoretical backgrounds, 2. selected works of Said, Spivak and Bhabha as well as their critical receptions, and 3. questions and debates within the field of postcolonialism (considering works by Anne McClintock, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Arif Dirlik, Aijaz Ahmad, Madhava Prasad, Stuart Hall, among others). Depending on the size of the class, students taking this course will do at least two oral presentations on assigned readings and lead class discussion twice. To help class discussion proceed smoothly, students ought to distribute questions they have prepared in advance to other class members at least one week before their assigned jobs due. In addition, each student should turn in summaries of the assigned weekly readings at the end of each meeting. A term paper of 10 to 15 pages on any critical and theoretical issue discussed in this course will be due on January 19, 2000.
Students interested in this course may find it helpful to start reading something from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, an anthology that will soon be, or has been, available at Bookman or, I believe, at the library 理圖.
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Early 20th Century American Short Fiction/2 credits/Fr. Daniel Bauer |
This course in modern American Literature will feature writers of fiction from the period of approximately 1920 till the early 1960's, and will focus in a special way on shorter rather than longer narratives.
The purpose is to offer students as broad a background as possible in themes, styles, and literary concerns of important American writers.
The works chosen are meant to be representative works of each author. The course materials, while still in flux, at this time include the following: novellas - Of Mice and Men and The Pearl, and at least two short stories by John Steinbeck; the novella the Assistant and at least two stories by Bernard Malamud; several short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Willa Cather; and The Gentle Lena by Gertrude Stein. Literarily critical journals and a final paper will be required.
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In this course we will read examples of various types of poetry written between the accession of King Henry VIII in 1509 and the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost in 1667, following the crisis of the English republic. During this period of time, poets as diverse as Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, George Gascoigne, Thomas Campion, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips, and John Milton explored new possibilities in lyric expression. I am currently torn between two different but viable approaches to this course, and I will give interested students the option of helping to choose our class structure. In the first approach, this course would be a survey of the lyric poetry written between 1509 and 1667, offering exposure to a number of different poets and poems. In the second approach, the course would focus on several key figures who published influential poems between 1509 and 1667, and we would then explore their poetry in more breadth and depth than we could in a survey course. Students who are interested in this class are asked to talk to the teacher before the end of this semester and express what direction they would like this course to go.
This will be a seminar course, so most of our class time will be spent in discussion. Each student will be responsible for at least two in-class presentations 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.
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課程目標：
知識：概括掌握中國韻文的發展。
方法：鍛鍊鑑賞文學作品的觀念、能力。
心靈：從中國韻文的部份重要作品與主題體會民族文化心理，並對應古今。
延伸：可為中外比較之基礎。
課程內容：
單元 綱目 上課次數 一 課程說明 0.5 二 形象與文學生命 2.5 三 詩歌的感發 1.5 四 形象與情意 1.5 五 如何做到詩的完全鑑賞 1 六 背景設計、模式塑造與主題呈現 1 七 戀愛悲劇模式A型 1 八 戀愛悲劇模式B型 1 九 鄉愁悲劇模式A型 1 十 負心婚變與怨棄悲劇模式 3 說明：
- 上列專題含詩、詞、散曲、戲曲等韻文作品。
- 大方向大致不變，專題題目增刪與否，視行事曆與暑假「工程」情況再決定。
- 報告一篇，至少十頁稿紙（六百字），分繳題目資料目及期末發表兩階段。
- 詩、詞、戲曲三系須看「中國文學發展史」（劉大杰，華正），並寫成簡明提要。
- 上課方式以預習、討論、解說進行。
- 評量：包括預習、討論、作業、期末報告（繳題、資料、口頭、文章）、出缺席等項目。
- 建議先讀一些課程會碰到但不能細談的劇本，以減輕學期中的壓力：西廂記、琵琶記、牡丹亭、長生殿、桃花扇（以上華正版）、雷峰塔（方成培，文化版「白蛇傳」收）。
- 本所中國文學課程必選二學分；開課方式由以上每年上學期韻文專題下學期小說專題改為隔年輪開，稍稍影響同學權益，請斟酌選擇。
- 如有疑義請來談。SF843，TEL: 29031111-2446(O)；2363-1607(H)