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| Final Exam | ||
| Date |
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Texts |
)| 1. 2/21 | Introduction:
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"Sailing to Byzantium"
Textbook:chap 5: 58-66 |
| 2. 2/28 | Holiday | |
| 3. 3/6 | discussion of structuralist
reading of narratives and the short stories
 :
Greimas |
"The Lesson"; "The Purloined Letter" |
| 4. 3/13 | semiotics and "The Myth Today" (English trans. by R. Barthes; other links) | "Sailing to
Byzantium" and "Spleen"
some advertisements |
| 5. 3/20 | group report (1): Shakespeare sonnet
29
 1st
journal due (both online and with a hard copy) |
)| 6. 3/27 | Marxism introduction: Marx | "The Rocking Horse Winner" |
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7. 4/3 |
Holiday | |
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8. 4/10 |
(mid-term week)
Althusser & Eagleton--state formations & ideology |
Textbook:chap
9: 114-121
Bicycle Thief |
| 9. 4/17 | Discussion of Ideology (cont'd); application of the theories | Yeat's poems |
| 10. 4.24 | group report (2): 1. Campus
Folksong, 2. "Chinago"
2nd
journal due (both online and with a hard copy) |
websites: Campus folksong; Jack London |
)| 11. 5/1 | Deconstruction
Other poststructuralist theorists |
Icicle
Thief
Textbook:chap 6 |
| 12. 5/8 | M Butterfly | |
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13. 5/15 |
M Butterfly |
Michel Foucault Barthes and Foucault |
)| 14. 5/22 | group report (3)
possibilities of de-conolization |
Textbook:chap |
| 15. 5/29 | Taiwan: a colonial,
postcolonial and/or postmodern society?
group report (4) |
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| 16.6/5 | Final Exam &
Conclusion
mid-term paper due
(both online and with a hard copy) |
