Kate Liu, 2003S
English, Fu Jen

Image: Ushering into Banality, Jeff Koons, 1988

Literary Criticism: Love, Desire and Class

Tentative Schedule

New Criticism and Beyond: Reading Traditional Poetry of Love
1. 2/20

General Introduction

Analyzing love sonnets: praising the lady, the spiritual vs. the erotic.(Reader: chap 1)
2. 2/27
 New Criticism: its Context, Methodology and Limitations (Reader: chap 2)

Love Poems (cont'd)

Psychoanalysis
3. 3/6

The Unconscious, Libido and Love: Sigmund Freud (Reader: chap 3 to p. 153)

"Eveline" by James Joyce

4. 3/13

Methodolody1: Dream Analysis and the Use of Symbol (Reader: chap 4 to p. 161)

"The City in the Sea" by EdgarAllan Poe and some examples of dreams
5. 3/20

Identity as Split and in Lack, Desire as Displacement: Jacque Lacan: (Reader: chap 3 to pp. 156-163)

Elizabeth Bishop's poems; 〈性欲主體性之疑雲〉
6. 3/27

Methodolody 2: Neurosis and psychobiography (Reader: chaps 3 & 4 review. )

"Tell-Tale Heart" and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe
4/3
Spring Break
7. 4/10

Psychoanalysis: Conclusion and Contiuation (e.g. desire and fetishism)

Group Report 1

Marxism

8. 4/17
Mid-Term

Introduction: Capitalism and Social Structure--Karl Marx (Reader: chap 5 to p. 214)

"Snowed Up"
9. 4/24

Social Conditioning --Ideology & Hegemony: L. Althusser& A. Gramsci (Reader: chap 6 to p. 89; chap 5 pp. 216-17)

Excerpts from The Great Gatsby
10. 5/1

Literary Praxis 1: F. Jameson & T. Eagleton (Reader: chap 5 pp. 217-22; chap 6 to p. 89-94 )

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
11. 5/8 Class Canceled; to be made up later. Please watch the following two lectures to help you with your reading.
1. Michel Foucault--discourse
2. Discourse & "truth," power & knowledge, and subject & subject position
12.5/15

Another Sociology of Literautre:〈文學社會學的多重互動模式〉 (Reader: chap 8)

Another View on Society: M. Foucault's Views on Discourse and Power (Reader: chap 7 pp. )
13.5/22

〈浪漫愛的雙重面向：革新意識與女性幻想〉(Reader chap 9) 1.My Sassy Girl; 2. 瓊瑤，etc.; 3. Cultural Studies: General Intro

《我的野蠻女友》﹔Group Report 2

Cultural Studies

14-5/29

Cultural Studies: Universal Abandon? (Reader chap 10) 1. Group Report: commercials; 2. Cultural Studies 2; 3. "Faces of Madness"

"Faces of Madness"
15.-6/5

Representation, Commodification of Love (Reader chap 11)

〈城市飛行〉邊緣外的邊緣：看（不）見『外勞』!

6/11

make up day--Wed afternoon

Discourse and Subjectivities (Reader chap 12); 解讀台灣流行音樂中的愛情世界（1989-1998）*

Group Report 4 (See the chosen texts in EngSite)1. Popular Love Songs; lyrics; 2. Cultural Studies 4

16-6/12

Q & A 1. "Morning"; 2. Taiwan's Popular Cultures: Some Questions

"Morning"; 哈日 ；流行音樂：全球化下的文化、科技、與創作
17-6/19
 Final Exam