Update: 2003-08-22 About the Course

New Criticism and Beyond: Reading Traditional Poetry of Love
1.
General Introduction: What is Romantic Love ?
Analyzing love sonnets :
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 & close reading
  • Courting Sonnet in Romeo and Juliet
  • John Donne's selected love poems
  • Animation : "I'm Your Man"
  • General Introduction/New Criticism

     

    2.
    New Criticism: its Context, Methodology and Limitations
    Love Poems (cont'd) Question:
  • Mathew Arnold, T.S Eliot, and New Criticism
  • Victiorian Love Poems: E. B. Browning & Sonnets
  • "Barbara Allen" & "Porphyria's Lover"
  • New Criticism & Application

    Psychoanalysis
    1.
    (1)Structure of the Mind, Child Development & Love: Sigmund Freud
  • Starting Question
  • Freud: Three Premises
  • Animation: "NoProblem"
  • Freud's view of Sexuality and Love
  • Psychoanalysis
    2
    (2)Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature
  • Q& A / Subjectivity
  • Repression& Sublimation/Interpretation of Dreams
  • Examples of Dreams:
  • Sexual Symbols & Edgar Allan Poe
  • Psychoanalysis& Literature
    3

    (3) Identity as Split and in Lack, Desire as Displacement: Jacque Lacan

  • Jacque Lacan: Q&A about Identity
  • Three Stages of Psychic development
  • Gender Difference, Desire, and Love
  • Elizabeth Bishop: Poetics of Displacement
  • Psychoanalysis& Literature
    4 Psychoanalysis (4): The Return of the Repressed
  • Q & A on Freud and Lacan
  • Art and Psychoanalysis
  • Edgar Allan Poe:"Tell-Tale Heart" and "Ligeia"
    An Artist with a Keen Awareness of Conflicting Desires
  • Psychoanalysis& Literature
    5 Psychoanalysis: Conclusion & Continuation
  • Group Report (1)
    A Psychoanalysis Approach to Mulholland Drive
  • Question / Discussion/ Comment
    on Group Presentation
  • Psychoanalysis: Conclusion
    Sigmud Freud / Jacque Lacan
  • Psychoanalysis:Fetishism & Continuation
  • Group Report (Mulholand Drive)

    Psychoanalysis& Literature
    Marxism
    1 Marxism: Introduction & Topics (1) Class Relations, Capitalism and Commodification
  • Introduction & Topics (1)
    Starting Questions& General Responses
  • Introduction & Topics (2)
    .Economic Determinism& Marx's Critique of Capitalism
  • "Snowed Up"
  • Marxism:Introduction
    2 Social Conditioning --Ideology & Hegemony:
    Louis Althusser& Antonio Gramsci
  • Marx Q& A: . Superstructure / Economic Base in History of Marxism; Literature & Society
  • Ideology & Hegemony: Ideogoy and Altuesser
  • Ideology & Hegemony: Hegemony and Gramsci
  • Marxism: Ideology & Hegemony
    3 Marxism 3: Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists
  • Althusser and Gramsci Q& A/ Methodolgies/
    Pierre Macherey & The textual unsaid

  • Terry Eagleton--Materialist Criticism /
    T. S. Eliot--"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prurock"/
    Fredric Jameson-- Three Horizons of Criticism/
    Tony Harrison--"Marked with D"

  • Marxism: Methodology & Theorists
    4 Michel Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse
  • Q & A: Literature, Ideology, Power & Discourse
  • Power, Knowledge and Discourse
  • Discourse and Truth
  • Michel Foucault: Power Knowledge and Discourse

    5

    Discourses of Love: 瓊瑤
    Pattern, Ideology and Communication
  • Group Report 2 《我的野蠻女友》
  • Discourses of Love: 瓊瑤
  • Group Report 3 (5/29)
  • 我的野蠻女友

    瓊瑤

    Cultural Studies
    1
    Cultural Studies 1- 2: Theories, Methodologies& Examples
  • Cultural Studies 1:Introduction (5/22)
  • Cultural Studies 2:
    Major Theories, Methodologies & Examples
  • "Face of Madness"
  • Cultural Studies:Introduction

    Cultural Studies:Major Theories, Methodology, Examples


    "Face of Madness"
    2 Cultural Studies 3
  • Q& A (1): Semiotic Reading of Fashion
  • Q&A (2): Marxist Reading & Cultural Studies
  • Foreign Labors and 城市飛行
  • Cultural Studies 3
    3
    Cultural Studies 4: Discourse and Subjectivity
  • Group Report 4: Breaking Up in Taiwan Pop Music
  • Cultural Studies 4:Production and Consumption

  • Group Report 4


    Lyrics

    Cultural Studies 4

    4 Cultural Studies 5:
  • Cultural Studies5:Taiwan's Case of Popular Culture
  • "Morning"
  • Cultural Studies 5

    Discourse of Love: 'Morning'
    5

    Final Exam: Subjectivity, Language and Society, Literature, Consumer Culture and Ways of Reception

  • Essay Questions (A-C)
  • Essay Questions (C-D)
  • Identification/ Definition/ Articulation
  • Essay Questions

    Identification/Definition/Articulation