General Introduction

Analyzing love sonnets: praising the lady, the spiritual vs. the erotic.(Reader: chap 1)

Reader: chap 2
EBB's poems, "The Trial of Love"

"The Trial of Love"

The Unconscious, Libido and Love: Sigmund Freud (Reader: chap 3: to p. 53)

"Eveline" by James Joyce

Methodolody1: Dream Analysis and the Use of Symbol (Reader: chap 3 to p. 55; chap 4: pp. 146-61)

"The Blind Man" by D. H. Lawrence

Identity as Split and in Lack, Desire as Displacement: Jacque Lacan: (Reader: chap 3: 61-67; chap 4: pp. 161-174)

Elizabeth Bishop's poems

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

Quiz 1
a Hitchcock film Psycho or Spellbound; Wide Sargasso Sea (excerpt)

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

1st Paper due or Group Report 1: The Piano
"Snowed Up"

Marxism & Love in Society

Introduction: Capitalism and Social Structure--Karl Marx (Reader: chap 5 to p. 79-85)

Group Report 2: The American Beauty

chap 5 pp. 86-92; chap 6 to p. 81-89
The Great Gatsby (excerpt)
1, 2, 3

Social Conditioning --Ideology & Hegemony: L. Althusser& A. Gramsci (Reader: chap 5 pp. 86-92; chap 6 to p. 81-89; )

Excerpts from The Great Gatsby

Review: chap 5 & 6
"Prufrock"
1, 2

Literary Praxis 1: F. Jameson & T. Eagleton (Reader: chap 5 & chap 6 review)

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Chap 7;
"Faces of Madness"
Girl Interrupted
1, 2

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

Girl Interrupted

Another Sociology of Literautre:〈文學社會學的多重互動模式〉 (Reader: chap 8)
〈浪漫愛的雙重面向：革新意識與女性幻想〉(Reader chap 9)

"Faces of Madness"

a film by 瓊瑤

The Group's Texts
Major Input 2*
1, 2

Lord of the Flies & The Human Stain

Group Report 2 or Paper or Online Interaction due

Reader chap 10
FLW (film & excerpt)
1, 2

Cultural Studies and Cultural Production of Love

Cultural Studies: Pastiche & Universal Abandon? (Reader chap 10) Quiz 2 (due 12/24)

Contemporary representation of Romantic love: The two endings of The French Lieutenant's Woman

Chap 11; Moulin Rouge
1, 2

Representation, Commodification of Love (Reader chap 11)

Contemporary representation of Romantic love: Moulin Rouge

Chap 12; "Morning"& Notes on a Scandal
1, 2

Discourse and Subjectivities (Reader chap 12);

Extramarital Affairs: "Morning" ; Notes on a Scandal
Teacher-Student Love (師生戀)

Group texts, "Loveliness" 20, 30, 40
1, 2

Q & A

Group Report 3
20, 30, 40
"The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Runner" Sara Maitland

1, 2
Major Input 3*