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Literary Criticism:

From Self to Subjectivity
Kate Liu  Fall, 2000
Tentative Syllabus
Date
Texts
Assignment

I. New Criticism and Formalism--  unified text and independent self    相關站台 
2

* GP text stands for the text chosen for group report.
1. 9/18
Introduction:
 -- appreciation, interpretation and criticism

e.g. "When the Day Breaks" (by Wendy Tilby); 
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" 
  1. The other short poems and 〈母親〉王文興
  2. read "Critical Attitudes"(讀本:3-7)
2. 9/25
theory + method (1): 
-- New Critical approach to poems
-- form as organism-- image, tone, irony
  1. read "New Criticism" (讀本:8 -)
  2. "A Rose for Emily" (讀本: 12 -)
  3. ; quiz
3.  10/ 2
theory + method (2):
-- New Critical approach to narratives 

different presentations of women
  1. 1st journal 
  2. Read GP text and 台灣後現代詩
  3. ; quiz
4.  10/9
Conclusion: 
--  Modern and postmodern selves/texts--Is totality possible?
--  a critique of New Criticism

  1st journal due   group report (1)
  1. read "Tell-Tale Heart" and "Should Wizard Hit Mommy?"

II. Psychoanalysis—the hidden depths of literature and self   相關站台 

5. 10/16
theory + method (1):
the unconscious and the Oedipus complex 

e.g. "Mindscape"  by Jacques Drouin 
藝術家和伊底帕斯情節
e.g. D.H. Lawrence, Leonardo
  1. read "Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism" (讀本 32- )
  2. : 

    3. 1. definitions of subjectivity
    2. Freud on human psyche and child development (updated)
6. 10/23 
theory + method (2):
dream analysis and the use of symbol

e.g. Rene Margritte, Rouseau's Dream;
  clips from Spellbound; 
  The dreams in Wide Sargasso Sea
  1. read 心理分析(讀本 55 - )
  2. quiz
7. 10/30
theory + method (3):
-- Neurosis and psychobiography

"Tell-tale Heart" and Edgar Allan Poe; Psycho
  2. read/watch the GR texts.
8. 11/ 6
Conclusion: 
group reports:  "Araby" outline & The Piano 2nd journal due
  1. Read "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"(讀本 161 - )and think of two texts which seem "feminist" to you

III. Feminism—gendered text and gendered subject   相關站台 

9. 11/13
(mid-term week)
theory + method (1):
-- history of subordination of women


  e.g. Some American Feminists; "Greek Goddess"; "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
  1. read Feminism  (讀本 89 - )
  2. 1. gendered subject 2. feminism (1)
10. 11/20
theory + method (2):
-- women's movement & women's discourse (French Feminism) 
  e.g.   Some (Visual) Feminist  strategies: 
-- "A Room of One's Own" clips
-- "Rispondetemi"
  1. read 1.〈女性主義的文學表現〉2. 〈基進女性主義對性別及性的看法〉(讀本 112 - )3.夏宇的〈腹語術〉〈野獸派〉〈某些雙人舞〉〈重金屬〉〈姜嫄〉
11. 11/27
theory + method (3):
Post-feminisms and Lesbianism
-- Feminism in Taiwan

  e.g.  k.d. lang; Madonna
  e.g.   Some (Visual) Feminist  strategies: 
-- "The Female Body" by M. Atwood 
-- Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, 
-- Chinese Americans
-- Female Artists and Femininist Issues: Taiwanese and Western feminist painters
  1. read Atwood's "Rape Fantasies,""Blue Beard's Eggs"& GP text
  2. 陳珊妮 remote sites: 1, 2
  3. 1. feminism 3; 2. 陳珊妮
12. 12/4 運動會補假 Holiday Mid-Term paper due
13. 12/11
Conclusion:
-- What are feminisms and post-feminisms?
group reports: I've Heard the Mermaid Singing; "Rape Fantasies"& "Bluebeard's Egg"  3rd journal due
  1. 1. examples; 2. mermaid report
  2. read "The Babysitter" and record your responses
  3. ROBERT COOVER; film reviews at IMDB
  4. 3rd journal
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IV. Reader Response--  reading subject   相關站台 
 
14. 12/18
Theory + method :
  implied reader, Male Voyeurism & Female Spectator

e.g. "The Babysitter" 
  1. read "Positioning the Reader or Spectator"
15. 12/ 25 Holiday 
 
theory + method + conclusion
(A Makeup Session will be scheduled: 
on reader's horizon of expectation & Conclusion )
16. 1/ 1 Holiday again.  :( 
17. 1/ 10 Final Exam

Kate Liu (劉紀雯)


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