Modern/Postmodern English Fiction                                                                      Spring 2004

Office: MMC in SF 9th Fl.
LA 102 Thursday 9:10-12:00

        In this course we read a number of novels by contemporary British writers and a number of essays by theorists of postmodernism and metafiction. We will pay particular attention to the function of the narrator, the problems of subjectivity and agency, the intertextual and reflexive nature of much of the fiction, the use of pastiche and parody, the end of History and the importance of histories, the ex-centric perspective, and the relations between 'narrative' and 'history' (or perhaps, more accurately historiography for history in its written form) and the 'novel'. Authors to be studied include Virginia Woolf, Michael Cunningham, John Fowles, A. Byatt, Julian Barnes and Martin Amis.

Texts:
   Amis, Martin.   Success.  London: Vintage, 1991.
   Barnes, Julian.   Talking It Over.   London: Vintage, 1992.
   Byatt, A. S.   Possession.   London: Vintage, 1991.
   Cunnigham, Michael.   The Hours.   London: Fourth Estate, 1999.
   Fowles, John.   The French Lieutenant's Woman.  London: Vintage, 1996.
   Woolf, Virginia.   Mrs. Dalloway.   New York: Harcourt, 1925. Taipei: Bookman, n.d.

Requirement:
   1) active participation in class and on the internet,
   2) a review/critique of a journal article for each novel you read for class
   3) a 30-minute report on a novel of your choice with an outline ready for online publication,
   4) a term paper (15 pages) and
   5) a final presentation at the end of the semester.

Grading Policy:
    Journal review/critique 閱讀(讀書)評論 (至少三篇) 30%
    Active participation in class and online discussion 課堂出席及線上討論 15%
    A 30-minute in-class report 隨堂報告20%
    A final presentation 期末口頭報告 15%
    A term paper (15 pages) 期末書面報告(15頁) 20%

Course Evaluation
  Pre-Evaluation and End-of-the-year Evaluation

Tentative Schedule

Course Files

Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway

Course Files

Course Files

List of Reference: 延伸閱讀

   Selected Bibliography in Postmodernism:
   Lee, Alison. Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1990.
   Marshal, Brenda K. Teaching the Postmodern: Fiction and Theory. New York: Routledge, 1992.
   Waugh, Patricia. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern. New York: Routledge, 1989.

   廖炳惠﹒《後現代與後殖民論文集》， 台北：麥田，1994.
   陸蓉之﹒《後現代的藝術現象》， 台北：藝術家，1990.
   迷走﹒《媒體的出神狀態》， 台北：唐山，1990.
   詹明信 (Fredric Jameson)﹒《後現代主義與文化理論》，唐小兵譯，台北：合志， 1990.　
   羅青譯﹒《繪畫中的後現代主義》 by Steven Henry Madoff (1985)，台北：徐氏基金會， 1989.
   羅青﹒《什麼是後現代主義》， 台北：五四， 1989.　
   路況﹒《後／現代及其不滿》， 台北：唐山， 1990.　
   葉維廉﹒《解讀現代‧後現代：生活空間與文化空間的思索》， 台北：東大，1992.
   貝爾原著﹒《後工業社會的來臨：對社會預測的一項探索》， 高銛 等譯 ，台北：桂冠，1989
   張世豪﹒《後現代主義建築探微》， 台北：行政院文化建設委員會，1988.　
   孟樊 等著﹒ 《後現代併發症：當代台灣社會文化批判》， 台北：桂冠，1989