syllabus

1. 2/19	Introduction: review of New Criticism structuralism--basic concepts examples: "The Long Enchantment" (remote)& Milton sonnet 19	Textbook: chap 1: Syntax; "The Lesson"
2. 2/26	structuralist poetics: examples: structuralist reading of narratives; examples: "The Lesson"	Textbook: chap 2: Structuralism "The Purloined Letter"
3. 3/5	examples: "The Purloined Letter"; "Spleen," etc.	Textbook: chap 3-1: Roland Barthes (websites: English trans. by R. Barthes; other links)
4. 3/12	semiotics and "The Myth Today" some advertisements Images of Women on the Ads	Please read the group's texts: "One Art"; "Sestina"

5. 3/19	group report (1) Marxism introduction: Marx's Ideas of Capitalism and Social Structure 1st journal due	1. S/S: Conclusion; 2. Marxism: Introduction "The Rocking Horse Winner" Textbook: chap 4: pp. 200-214; Assumptions (218-220); Bicycle Thief
6. 3/26	Althusser & Eagleton--state formations & ideology examples: Bicycle Thief	1. Marxism: Introduction; 2. Bicycle Thief "The Chinago"; finish chap 4.
7. 4/2	*Holiday*	Yeat's poems & "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
8. 4/9	Class/Race Relations & Ideology (cont'd); examples: "The Chinago" and some poems	1. Marxism 2; 2."The Chinago" The group's text: "The Blind Man"
9. 4/16 (mid-term)	group report (2) 2nd journal due	1. Marxism 3; 2."The Blind Man" The group's text Icicle Thief Textbook: chap 5: Text-Play

10. 4/23	group report (3) Challeging the boundaries between fiction and reality: Metafiction and Postmodern Parody; e.g. "Las Meninas" Icicle Thief , The French Lieutenant's Woman and "Losing My Religion."	1. love songs; 2. post-structuralism1 "Lost in the Funhouse" Ref. 1. Adrian Henri; 2. Wilfred Owen Breughel's painting (remote); ASTERIX IN BELGIUM (see page 43);
12. 4/30	Deconstruction	1. post-structuralism1 2. post-structuralism2 Textbook: chap 6: Deconstruction
13. 5/7	Another poststructuralist theorist: Michel Foucault e.g. "The Purloined Letter"	Textbook:chap 3-2: Discourse, Power and the Subject; Example: Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson Barthes and Foucault
14. 5/14	example: Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson group report (3)	"Advice is Rarer than Ruby" Salman Rushdie "My Man Bovanne" Toni Cade Bambara

15. 5/21	Colonialism and possibilities of de-colonization example: Rushdie's novel 3rd journal due	1. Deconstructing Harry, 2. Postcolonialism 1 Textbook:chap 7: postcolonialism
16. 5/28	Language and Cultural Identity	Postcolonialism 1; 2 平路（台灣奇蹟）and the group's text
16.6/4	Taiwan: a colonial, postcolonial and/or postmodern society? group report (4) : 悲情城市	: City of Sadness; Postcolonialism 3
17. 6/11	Final Exam & Conclusion