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English Department, SOCE

Literary Criticism:

Self, Gender and Society
Kate Liu  Spring, 2001
Tentative Syllabus
Date
Texts
Assignment

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

* GP text stands for the text chosen for group report.
1. 2/19
Introduction:
 -- appreciation, interpretation and criticism

e.g. "Manly Games" (remote)
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (sound files:reading 1, 2, 3)
  1. The other short poems and 〈母親〉王文興
  2. read "Understanding a Poem"(讀本)
2. 2/26
theory + method (1): 
-- New Critical approach to poems
-- form as organism-- image, tone, irony
  1. read "New Criticism" (讀本)
  2. "A Rose for Emily" (讀本)
3.  3/ 5
theory + method (2):

-- New Critical approach to narratives 
  1. 1st journal 
  2. Read GP text and 台灣後現代詩
4.  3/12
Conclusion: 
--  Modern and postmodern selves/texts--Is totality possible?
--  a critique of New Criticism

  1st journal due   group report (1)
  1. Read "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"(讀本 )
  2. Think of two texts which seem "feminist" to you
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II. Feminism—gendered text and gendered subject   相關站台 
5. 3/19
theory + method (1):
-- history of subordination of women


  e.g. "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall";
Dream World and Ways of Seeing
  1. read Feminism  (讀本 pp: 178-85)
  2.  
  3. Images of Women on the Ads 
6. 3/26
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"
  2. read 1.〈女性主義的文學表現(讀本)
2.夏宇的〈腹語術〉〈野獸派〉
〈某些雙人舞〉〈重金屬〉
〈姜嫄〉
7. 4/2 Holiday  
8. 4/9
theory + method (3):
Post-feminisms and Lesbianism
-- Feminism in Taiwan

  e.g.  k.d. lang; Madonna
  e.g.   Some (Visual) Feminist  strategies: 
-- Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, 
-- Chinese Americans
-- Female Artists and Femininist Issues: Taiwanese and Western feminist painters
  2. read Atwood's "Rape Fantasies,""Blue Beard's Eggs"
  3. watch a group report on ㄐㄧㄢ視；由4:30起;use IE; outline
9.4/16 Margaret Atwood
-- "The Female Body," "Rape Fantasies" & "Bluebeard's Eggs"		 1. "Rape Fantasies"; 2.  Bluebeard's Eggs"
Watch: 1. The Piano; 2. another online lecture
10. 4/23
Conclusion:
-- What are feminisms and post-feminisms?
group report  3rd journal due
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III. Marxism (databank; 相關站台)
Purposes; Detailed Schedule
11. 4/30 Marxism introduction: Marx
lectures: Use IE!!!

1. From Marxism to Feminism
2. Marxism1: general introduction: the roles of money
3. Marxism1: example: "Rocking Horse Winner"
4. Marxism1: Social structure: 1; 2
5. Marxism1: example-- Bicycle Thieves
1. Gender to Soceity; 
2-4. Marxism: Introduction
5. Bicycle Thief
read "Marxism"(讀本); "Chinago"
12. 5/7 Althusser & Eagleton--state formations & ideology
1. Marxism2: Literature and Society
2. Marxism2: ideology-video example and 尊師重道
3. Marxism2: Althusser in the tradition of Marxism
4. Marxism2: example-- "Chinago"
1. Marxism: ideology
2. "The Chinago"
read "Marxism"(讀本); "Blindman"
13. 5/14 Discussion of Ideology (cont'd); application of the theories
1. Marxism3: Discussion of "The Blindman"
2. Marxism3: Discussion of "The Blindman" (cont'd)
3. Marxism3: Marxist Literary Criticism: Some examples		 1. Marxism: Literary Analysis; 2. "The Blindman"
14. 5/21 實驗結束，謝謝大家，請來課堂上課！
group report (3): 兒子的大玩偶
Reader Response: Intro.  implied reader, Male Voyeurism & Female Spectator
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IV. Reader Response--  reading subject   相關站台 
15.5/28 group report (4): 
Theory + method :
 Reading from different theoretical perspectives
  1.   reader response 2
  2. read "The Babysitter" and record your responses
  3. ROBERT COOVER; film reviews at IMDB
16. 6/ 4
 
theory + method + conclusion
on reader's horizons of expectation
e.g. "The Babysitter" 
17. 6/ 11 Final Exam
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