20th Century English Literature: Course Calender

Prof. Cecilia H.C. Liu
Email:
cecilia@mails.fju.edu.tw
Webpage Designer: Angela Chang

 
Date   Reading Assignments  
9/18   Introduction to the Course  
  Auden “As I Walked Out One Evening,” “O Where Are You going?”  
  Hardy The Darkling Thrush,” “The Convergence of the Twain” “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” “During Wind and Rain”  
  Graves “The Reader Over My Shoulder,” “The Devil's Advice to Story-tellers”  

Gender and Society: Self-awareness & subjectivity

9/25

Shaw

Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893; 1926)

 

10/2

Synge

The Playboy of the Western World

 

10/9

 

WW1 Poetry

 

 

Brooke

“The Solider”

 

 

E. Thomas

“The Owl”

 

 

Sasoon

“They,” “The General”

 

 

W. Owen

“Dulce Et Decorum Est,” “Disabled”

 

Art and Life

10/16

Yeats

“Adam’s Curse,” “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “When You Are Old”

*Due day for journals

 

Yeats

The Second Coming,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Leda and the Swan”

 

Identity and Post colonialism

10/23

Conrad

Heart of Darkness

 

10/30

Conrad

Heart of Darkness

(Film: Apocalypse Now)

Images of Women and Social Changes

11/6

Woolf

[Shakespeare’s Sister] from A Room of One’s Own

 

 

 

  “The Mark on the Wall”

 

11/13

 

Midterm

 

11/20

Joyce

 Araby,” “The Dead

*Due day for journals

Money and Modern Society

11/27

Lawrence

Odor of Chrysanthemums,” “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” “Piano,”“Snake”

 

12/4

Eliot

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Journey of the Magi”

 

12/11

O'Casey

Juno and the Paycock

 

Journey: Self and Life; individual to Society

12/18

Forster

From A Passage to India: Chapter 2

*Due day for journals

 

Mansfiled

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

 

12/25

 

No Class

(Merry Christmas!)

1/1

 

No Class

(Happy New Year!)

1/8

Woolf

“The Window” from To the Lighthouse (Powerpoint file, Word file)

 

 

Rhys

“Mannequin”

 

1/15

 

Final Exam