美國文學(一)
American Literature(1)
學期
107-1
學分
3
學分
當期課號
1648
永久課號
DFL3003
開課單位
外國語文學系
授課教師
馮品佳
類別
必修
上課時間表
| 節 | 週三 |
|---|---|
2 09:00–09:50 | 美國文學(一) F326 3 節連堂 |
3 10:10–11:00 | |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
概述
This course introduces students to American literature before the Civil War. Based on a topic approach, we will consider the shaping and reshaping of American national identity, “canons,” and literary/cultural imagination.
評分方式
Class attendance and participation 30% (including quizzes and film screening sessions) Midterm Exam 25% Final exam 45%
週次計畫
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Topic 1: The “Virgin” Land: Challenging the American Dream Introduction to American literature; Film screening |
| 第 2 週 | Topic 1: The “Virgin” Land: Challenging the American Dream Norton pp. 3-25 |
| 第 3 週 | Topic 2: Colonial America and the Discourses of National Identity William Bradford; John Winthrop; Jonathan Edwards; Mary Rowlandson Concepts to be explored: Calvinism; American exceptionalism |
| 第 4 週 | Topic 2: Colonial America and the Discourses of National Identity Salem witch hunt ; Film screening: Crucible (123 minutes) |
| 第 5 週 | Topic 2: Colonial America and the Discourses of National Identity Benjamin Franklin; St. John de Crevecoeur; Thomas Paine Anne Bradstreet; Phillis Wheatley |
| 第 6 週 | Midterm |
| 第 7 週 | Topic 3: 19th American Literature and American Renaissance Norton pp.489-510; Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”; James F. Cooper |
| 第 8 週 | Topic 3: 19th American Literature and American Renaissance Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism: “Nature”: “The American Scholar”:“Self-Reliance” |
| 第 9 週 | Henry David Thoreau Walden and Transcendentalism |
| 第 10 週 | Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown”; “The Birth Mark” |
| 第 11 週 | Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”; “The Fall of the House of Usher”: “The Purloined Letter”; “The Philosophy of Composition”; Melville |
| 第 12 週 | No class (University Sports Day) |
| 第 13 週 | Hawthorne and Poe |
| 第 14 週 | Herman Melville “Bartleby, the Scrivener” |
| 第 15 週 | Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson |
| 第 16 週 | Topic 4: Slave Narratives Olaudah Equiano; Harriet Jacobs; Frederick Douglass |
| 第 17 週 | Final exam |
教科書
Baym, Nina, et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 9th ed. New York: Norton, 2017.
Office Hours
- 地點
- by appointment
- 時間
- Wednesdays 2-4 PM or by appointment
- 聯絡方式
- pcfeng@mail.nctu.edu.tw