1

2/25

Prologue: History -- Time Capsule, Time Travels or Fusion of Horizons?

• New Criticism: Form and Content
• General Introduction: History and Identity

texts: "My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts," "Two Villages," "The Dream Before" Somewhere in Time

Read: chap 1 pp. 93-111; "Rip Van Winkle"

2

3/4

• New Criticism: Narrative Elements and Tension
• History and Literary History

texts: "Rip Van Winkle," a clip of Making Sense of the 60's, 妹妹看MTV

Read: chap 1 pp. 111-134; "The Garden of the Forking Paths" Obasan Chap 1-4
1, 2

3

3/11

New Historicism

• History, Power and Ideology: Michel Foucault and some Marxists

texts: Obasan

Shakespeare's Sonnet 29; Obasan chap 1-4

Read: chap 2 pp. 187--194; Obasan Chap 5-14

1, 2 "Garden,"  3 Obasan
　

4

3/18

• New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

texts: Obasan

Read: chap 2 pp 194--247; “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”
1, 2 Obasan

5

3/25

• Cultural Materialism: Assumptions and Methodologies

texts: “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”

Review: chap 1 and 2;
Read: Obasan  Chap 15-25
and watch Atonement
1, 2 "Sherlock Holmes"

6

4/1

• Review and Reflections: Identity, History and Realism

texts:Obasan

• Group Report (1): Atonement

Read: chap 4: pp. 271-285; Obasan  Chap 26-31; "The Man Who Would be King"
due: 4/2  Online Discussion 1
1 Atonement, 3 Obasan

7

4/8

• Orientalism and Its Revision

texts:Obasan 

Read: chap 4: 286-289; Obasan  Chap 32-end;
1 Colonialism, 4 Obasan

8

4/15

• Cultural Identities and Post-Colonial Theories

texts:Obasan --conclusion

Read: chap 5: 463-472;   "My Man Bovanne"
2 Colonial Identities, 5 Obasan

9

4/22

(mid-term week)

• Post-Colonial Theories

texts: "The Man Who Would be King," "My Man Bovanne" and/or

Review: chap 4 & 5 Read group report text
2 , 6 The Man who would be King

10

4/29

• Review and Reflections: Identity, Race and Cultural Translation

texts: Group Report (2)太平．天國 and The Piano

Review: chap 7 359-370; watch In Country
due: 4/29 Online Discussion 2
Colonial Identities

太平．天國 The Piano

11

5/6

• Multinational Capitalism and Simulacra

texts: In Country
theory explication: Prospero Complex, Colonial Mimicry, Cultural Translation

Read: chap 8.3 Jameson (optional)
Watch Forrest Gump

postcolonialism 3 ; In Country
postmodernism 1

12

5/13

• Postmodern Nostalgia Film and Popular Culture

texts: Forrest Gump and your own examples of simulacra!!!
　

read chap 10;
Watch The Stunt Man

postmodernism 1, 2
 In Country, Forrest Gump

13

5/20

• Reflexive Postmodernism and Cultural Globalization

texts: Stunt Man, Madonna and Cindy Shermanand, and your own examples!!!

read chap 11~12;  Read group report text: Ararat
postmodernism 3, The Stunt Man

14

5/27

• Trauma Theories

texts: Group Report (3): Ararat

Read: "Summer Flower," "Human Ashes," "Recollection";
 Watch Hiroshima mon amour
trauma, Ararat
　

15

6/3

• Trauma, its Aftermath and Representation(1)

texts:example: "Summer Flower," "Human Ashes," "Recollection," Hiroshima mon amour

16

6/10

• Postmodernism, Trauma and Globalization

texts:  Group Report (4): "Honey Pie"  (村上春樹)
theory explication: The Hyperreal, Hybridity and Caruth's Trauma Theory

17

6/17

• Final Exam