* Pre-Course Questionnaire Review Quiz 1 ＊ 12/31(Wed 1:00) Cube at LA 302＊ Course Evaluation
I. Introduction and New Criticism

Dates Subjects and Texts Assignments
1. 9/18

Introduction

1) Text and Context
2) New Critical approach to poems
-- form as organism-- image, tone, irony

e.g. (A) poems on gendered quests in nature in 19th century British culture
(1) Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" vs. Dorothy Wordsworth, C Rossetti's "When I am dead my dearest " some contemporary parodies of 'Dafodill' poems

 4 poems
2. 9/25

New Critical approach to poems and narratives

e.g. poems on gendered quests in nature in 19th century British culture --
(2) Felicia Heman vs. William Wordsworth ("Tinturn Abbey"), John Keats ("Belle Dame" and "Melancholy") and Lord Alfred Tennyson ("Lady Shalott")
1) 2 poems and 1 short story;
2) chap 1: feminism (178-85)

II. Feminism & Gender Studies

3. 10/2

Feminism: Oppression of Women -- A Historical Overview

e.g. (3) In an Artist's studio: C. Rossetti's poems; Dante Gabriell Rossetti's poem and paintings, and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe
(4) Ways of Seeing: Ways of Seeing & Dream World

 1, 2.
1) 2 stories;
2) chap 2 (- 228-51)
4. 10/9

Women's Movement & Women's Discourse (French Feminism) 

e.g. (B) Housekeeping and Female Artists in the Modern Age
--"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"   Katherine Anne Porter;
"The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle" Sylvia Plath
-- Virginia Woolf & "A Room of One's Own" clips

1, 2.
1) 2 poems & 1 short story
5. 10/16

Post-Feminisms and Lesbianism

(C) 'Language' & Contemporary Feminist Artists:
e.g.   Some (Visual) Feminist  strategies: 
-- Margaret Atwood "Spelling"; Marlene Noubese Philip "Universal Grammar"
-- 〈安卓珍妮〉

1, 2.

Surfacing

6. 10/23

Examples: (C) 'Language' & Contemporary Feminist Artists

-- Cindy Sherman; Barbara Kruger;Ref.Female Artists and Femininist Issues: Taiwanese and Western feminist painters; Feminism in Taiwan
Margaret Atwood
-- Surfacing (plot summary) chaps 5-6; 8-9; 13-14;

 1, 2.
1) group's text;
2) chaps 1 & 2 reviewed
3) Surfacing chaps: 13-14
7. 10/30 Conclusion:
Group report: Frida;
Surfacing chaps 13-14;
-- What are feminisms and post-feminisms?
group report  1st journal due		 1Frida, 2, 3
Surfacing chaps: 16-18

III. Structuralism & Poststructuralism: Linguistic (De-)Constructions of Meanings and Subjectivities

8. 11/6

Structuralism--Basic Concepts
examples: "Cube Man Cube" (Holland,Gerrit van Dijk)
Quiz 1: theory, practice

Surfacing chaps: 16-18

 1, 2,
1) 1 story
2) chap 3 (87-98; 100)
9. 11/13
( Midterm wk)		 Structuralist Reading of Narratives; Propp & Greimas
e.g. "The Long Enchantment"
"Should Wizard Hit Mommy?" 		1
chap 4 15-41
10. 11/20

Semiotics and "The Myth Today"

e.g. Some 19th-century Landscape Paintings & the use of nature in commercials

1, 2
chap 5
11. 11/27

From Structuralism to Poststructuralism: Binary Opposition & Deconstruction

e.g. the self-conscious modes in contemporary popular culture

1
1) chap 6 (123-33);
2) 1 story + group's text
12. 12/4 Examples: e.g. Deconstruction example: "The Blind Man"
group report 2 2nd journal due		 1; group
Some poems

IV. Ecocriticism: Nature Beyond Language?

13. 12/11 Examples: "Immortality Ode," "To Autumn"
group report 3: If These Walls Could Talk II		 1group, 2
1) "The Land Ethic"; Oliver's poems
2) chap 7 (optional)
14. 12/18 some poems by Mary Oliver; Sand County Almanac: "The Land Ethic"
group report 4: Nell
 group, 2
Surfacing Part 3;
15. 12/25

Christmas (holiday) : Review Quiz 1 (due on 12/28)

structuralism--structuralism theory and practice;
semiotics and representation--theory and practice

　
16. 1/1


New Year (holiday) Review Quiz 2

poststructuralism: theory and practice

　
17. 1/8 Surfacing part 3; Group Report 5; Final Exam (due on 1/14) group, 2