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(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Advanced Literature and Culture Courses LC001. British Literature I [?????(?)]
3 credits
Ms. Jennifer Chiu
For Sophomores and above
Class size: 10-45; Non-English Dept.: 5 (must all have taken at least
one course related to literature such as "Introduction to Western
Literature")
Prerequisite: Introduction to Western Literature Course Description This course is to survey the English Literature from the Middle Ages to the
Eighteenth Century by sampling the major writers and works in all periods.
The object is not just to study a succession of writers and works but also
to learn a tradition in which each individual author and text plays a part.
We cannot, even in a lifetime, read all the works that make up the
tradition, but we can learn enough about it from a selection of works to
relate these works and their authors to one another and to their common
heritage. Textbook: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors.
7th ed. Vol. I. London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. Tentative Schedule (subject to change)
|Week |Assigned reading |Keywords |
|1 |Introduction to the course |allegory, elegy, epic, |
| |Introduction: The Middle Ages to ca. 1485 |kennings |
| |Anonymous: "The Dream of the Rood" |Celtic, runes; warrior, |
| | |scop, comitatus, |
| | |wergild, wyrd, |
| | |mead hall |
|2, 3 |Anonymous: Beowulf | |
|5, 6 |Chaucer: "The General Prologue, " "The Wife |Examplum |
| |of Bath's Prologuee and Tale," and "The | |
| |Pardoner's Prologue and Tale" from The | |
| |Canterbury Tales | |
|7, 8 |Anonymous: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |romantic-allegorical |
| |Malory: from Morte D'Arthur |epic, knight(hood), |
| | |chivalry |
|9 |Midterm Exam | |
|10 |Introduction: The Sixteenth Century: |tragedy, blank verse, |
| |1485-1603 |pride, knowledge; |
| |Marlowe: Doctor Faustus |Petrarchan/Italian |
| |Shakespeare: selections from Sonnet Sequence|sonnets, |
| | |Shakespearean/English |
| | |sonnets |
|11 |Introduction: The Early Seventeenth Century:|Metaphysical conceits, |
| |1603-1660 |dramatic |
| |Donne: "The Canonization" |monologue/dialogue; |
| |Marvell: "The Definition of Love" |passion/ |
| |Milton: Lycidas |intellect |
|12, |Milton: from Paradise Lost |pastoral elegy, |
|14 | |evocation/ |
| | |apostrophe; epic, blank |
| | |verse, Satanic hero; |
| | |sonnet |
|15 |Introduction: The Restoration and the |mock heroic, heroic |
| |Eighteenth Century: 1660-1785 |couplet, |
| |Dryden: "Mac Flecknoe" |satire |
| |Swift: "A Modest Proposal" | |
|16-17|Swift: from Gulliver's Travels | |
|18 |Final Exam | |
Requirements
1. Lateness and absences are strongly discouraged. You will automatically
fail this course after five absences. Points will be taken out in
accordance with the number of lateness and absences.
2. You need to write a 1000-word term report on one of the topics provided
by the instructor. If you want to use any secondary sources, your papers
must include parenthetical citations for all paraphrasing and quoting, as
well as a list of works cited at the end. You will automatically fail
this course if you plagiarize.
3. Once in a while, you may be asked to write a 2-page journal on a
question related to a specific reading. And quizzes will be given
whenever necessary.
4. Late assignments will not be accepted. When absent on the day for an
assignment to be turned in, you must hand it in the first day you come
back to school (not a week after!) Tentative Grading Scale (subject to change) Midterm & final exams 50%
Papers, journals, quizzes, class participation 50% NOTE: Try to prepare your reading during the summer vacation by starting
with the longer works such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The
Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, and Gulliver's Travels, whose complete
texts we will read for the class. You can get the textbook from the Caves
Books (????) at Fu Jen, or the Bookman (????), across from National Taiwan
University. LC002. American Literature I [?????(?)]
3 credits
Fr. Daniel Bauer
For Juniors and above
Class size: 10-45; Non-English Dept.: 5 (must all have taken at least
one course related to literature such as "Introduction to Western
Literature")
Prerequisite: Introduction to Western Literature Survey of American Literature (3 credits) introduces students to some of
the most influential poetry, historical narratives, and autobiographical
works of American writers in the 17th-18th centuries. Among the writers the
course will study are a women poet (Anne Bradstreet); a woman captured by a
band of American Indians and allowed to go free, who later offered readers
an autobiographical account of her suffering-filled adventure (Mary
Rowlandson); a gifted Protestant minister who preached fiery sermons
(Jonathan Edwards); and a n American patriot who contributed mightily to
American literature by his call for tolerance and appreciation of Indian
culture, his humorous and yet serious autobiography, and his collection of
wise sayings in "The Way to Wealth" (Benjamin Franklin). This course asks students to write four journals, each 4 pages A-4 paper
in length, and to take an active part in class with Q and A, feedback on
the literature and small group discussion. The course also offers a mid-
term and final exam. Grades will be tabulated according to this table:
journals 60%, exams 30%, and class participation 10% LC003. Literary Criticism: Love, Desire and Class
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3 credits
Dr. Kate Chiwen Liu
For Juniors and above
Class size: 10-45; Non-English Dept.: 5
Prerequisite: Introduction to Western Literature "Ah--ha, that's great! I love it." ???????,??????
Are these examples of literary criticism? No. [pic]Objectives
Literary criticism is different from Literary appreciation: the latter
involves expressions of your feelings and pleasure in reading, your likes
and dislikes of a text, while the former, as a formal training for
literature majors, requires both literary sensibility and critical
thinking. In other words, literary criticism consists of careful analysis
of literary texts with a conscious use of some critical frameworks and
methods and an active engagement in their critical issues.
(For further details on what literary criticism is, please view this
animation.
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/video/animation/lit1.swf) In this course, therefore, we will try to improve our abilities in:
1. analyzing literary texts from more than one critical perspective;
2. responding critically to the issues raised by the chosen literary or
cultural texts;
3. placing, with the help of some critical theories, literature and the
issues involved in a larger context, such as those of the texts'
contemporary society, our society and our lives. In order to have a sense of focus in the vast fields of critical theories,
we will choose Love, Desire and Class as our major topics. The questions we
discuss will be:
. How does a text produce its meanings both through form and content?
. What do the texts we examine say about love, desire and class
differences?
. Are there meanings hidden in the texts and/or unknown to their authors?
If so, what are they and why? Four critical schools will be used to help us examine the texts' meanings
and hidden meanings from various perspectives:
. New Criticism (2 wks)-textual meanings constructed through formal
unity, or with the assumptions of human liberalism.
. Psychoanalysis (5 wks) -textual meanings driven or repressed by desires
of the authors or society;
. Marxism (5 wks) -textual meanings of social relations and ideologies;
. Cultural Studies (4 wks)- textual meanings produced in our culture or
global culture. * This is NOT a course on the history of love in literature. Rather we
choose the texts related to love, desire and class difference for a sense
of thematic focus. As we proceed, however, you are welcome to bring in
Taiwanese and cultural texts related to these topics. This, I believe, will
bring Literary Criticism home to us. [pic]Requirements
Besides the usual stuffs - attendance, punctuality, journals, class
participation, group report and final