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(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Advanced Literature and Culture Courses LC001. British Literature I [?????(?)]
3 credits
Ms. Jennifer Chiu & Dr. Raphael
Schulte
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 Prologue 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/intellect |
| |Milton: Lycidas | |
|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. Points will be taken out
from your final grade in accordance with the number of lateness and
absences.
2. Written assignments:
1) You will write five 600-word journals and a 1,000-word term report.
Topics for both journals and term report will be given by the
instructor.
2) 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) Late assignments will not be accepted. When absent on the day for an
assignment to be turned in, you must send its file to me via e-mail
and deliver its hard copy the next day (not a week after!) with a
proof (such as the receipt of your medical treatment) to excuse your
leave.
3. Quizzes will be given whenever necessary. 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 study in the class. You can get the textbook either from the
Cave bookstore (????) in our campus, or from the Bookman bookstore (????),
across from National Taiwan University. If you want to order books as a
group-to get a discount, please contact the Bookman's Jerry Chen (TEL:
23687226; 0921781760). LC002. American Literature II [?????(?)]
3 credits
Ms. Cecilia H.C. Liu
For Juniors and above
Class size: 10-45; Non-English Dept.: 3 (1. Having taken Introduction
to (Western) Literature; 2. Great interest in literature)
Prerequisite: Introduction to (Western) Literature Course Description
This course surveys American literature from the Civil War to the later
twentieth century. We will cover a good number of representative works in
different genres-fiction, poetry, essay, and drama-and among various
perspectives on American experience and life. Throughout American history,
several authors have voiced their American experience and views through the
eyes and voices of their literary characters, or have represented the
living experience of other Americans. The authors include: Mark Twain,
Henry James, Stephan Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, W. C. Williams, e.
e. cummings, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest
Hemingway, John Cheever, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Toni Morrison, Alice
Walker, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, E. Bishop, S. Plath, Adrienne
Rich, David Mamet and Tony Kushner, just to name a few. We will analyze and interpret the different American experiences that
reveal themselves in some great works, and to analyze the themes, ideas,
struggles, and meanings which inspire American writers to create their
stories. Like many art forms, literature contains in its nature the
potential for human connection. Why read literary works if we can't, in
some way, learn more about ourselves in the process? Thus, in this course
we'll also attempt to tackle the complicated condition of the American
identity and examine how it is connected to our own experience and
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Baym, Nina, et al., ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Shorter 6th ed. New York: Norton, 2003. III. Requirements and Grading:
Participation/Attendance/Discussion 15%
Group Presentation 15%
Midterm exam 20%
Final exam 20%
Journals 30% LC003. Theater Topics: Chinese Characters on the Stage and Screen
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3 credits
Dr. Llyn Scott For Sophomores and above Class size: 20-22; Non-English Dept.: 2 (Need the instructor's
permission beforehand.)
Prerequisite: Introduction to (Western) Literature This course will set the stage for Taiwan's engagement with the world by
first introducing students to seventeenth and eighteenth century references
to Formosa in European literature such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels. Dramatic texts to be studied are a comical music drama by an
Italian librettist and French classical tragedy by a Dutch playwright.
Continuing in this introduction to Taiwan onstage and in film, students
will read plays by contemporary Taiwan dramatist Casey Wei-jan Chi and
others in translation. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary Taiwan films
about urban life discussed in recent publications such as Taiwan Film
Directors: a Treasure Island by Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell Davis, and Island
on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After by Feii Lu. Teaching materials
draw from the Internet, videos, and texts. Guest speakers will be invited
for special lectures. Students will become familiar with the terms and
methods of drama and film criticism. LC004. World Masterpieces [??????]
3 credits
Fr. Daniel Bauer
For Juniors and above
Class size: 10-45; Non-English Dept.: 5 (must all have taken at l