英國文學(一)
English Literature (1)
學期
109-1
學分
3
學分
當期課號
1595
永久課號
DFL2105
開課單位
外國語文學系
授課教師
林建國
類別
必修
上課時間表
| 節 | 週二 |
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5 13:20–14:10 | 英國文學(一) F210 3 節連堂 |
6 14:20–15:10 | |
7 15:30–16:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
先修科目
All activities--lectures, quizzes, and exams--will be conducted only in English.
教學方式
Teaching assistant: Angela 游師晴 (angelayu0207@gmail.com) for grade releases
評分方式
Grading Scale Headnote quizzes (the average of which is multiplied by 5) 20 points Textual quizzes (same as above) 20 points Midterm examination 25 points Final examination 25 points Film quizzes (average of quizzes on two assigned films) 10 points 5% of extra bonus (if full attendance, with the total 85 as ceiling) Total 100 points If you have a full attendance the whole semester, you will receive a 5% extra grade for your overall semester grade. For example, if your grade is 80, it will be increased to 84. If after the adjustment your grade exceeds 85, you receive 85. This bonus grade, as well as the due credit(s) for your missing quiz(zes) (see below), will only be calculated and added to your overall grade by the semester's end.
週次計畫
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| 第 1 週 | The Anglo-Saxon Literature Headnotes: (1) “Bede (ca. 673-735) and Cædmon’s Hymn [ca. 658-680]” (pages A30-A31) (2) “Beowulf [ca. 750]” (pages A37-A40). Note: No need to memorize or read “Tribes and Genealogies” on pages A40-A41 and “A Note on Names” on page A42. Texts: (1) The Venerable Bede, “From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People [The Story of Cædmon]” (pages A31-A33) (2) Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney, pages A42-A109) [Prologue: The Rise of the Danish Nation] Lines 1-27, 53-85 [Heorot Is Attacked] Lines 86-150 [The Hero Comes to Heorot] Lines 194-209, 229-285, 340-347, 399-458, 473-490 [Feast at Heorot] Lines 491-498, 642-661 [The Fight with Grendel] Lines 675-687, 710-835 [Celebration at Heorot] Lines 836-873, 924-978, 1019-1048, 1062-1080, 1107-1139, 1156-1174, 1214-1231 [Another Attack] Lines 1251-1291, 1299-1321, 1345-1361 [Beowulf Fights Grendel’s Mother] Lines 1383-1396, 1441-1454, 1492-1590, 1623-1650 [Another Celebration at Heorot] Lines 1651-1676 [Beowulf Returns Home] Lines 1813-1880, 1963-2009, 2115-2151 [The Dragon Wakes] Lines 2200-2220, 2312-2354 [Beowulf Attacks the Dragon] Lines 2510-2537, 2559-2610, 2625-2711, 2724-2751, 2783-2808 [Beowulf’s Funeral] Lines 2821-2831, 3137-3182 |
| 第 2 週 | The Arthurian Romance Headnotes: (1) “Irish Literature” (pages A128) (2) “Cúchulainn’s Boyhood Deeds” (page A129) (3) “The Myth of Arthur’s Returns” (page A136) (4) “Romance” (pages A158-A159) (5) “Marie de France” (pages A159-A160) (6) “Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471)” (pages A534-A536) (7) “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400)” (pages A201-A203) Texts: (1) “Geoffrey of Monmouth: from The History of the Kings of Britain” (page A136) (2) “Wace: from Roman du Brut” (page A137) (3) “Layamon: from Brut” (page A137) (4) Sir Thomas Malory, “From Morte Darthur: [The Death of Arthur]” (pages A545-A550) (5) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans. by Simon Armitage, pages A204-A256) FITT i (pages 204-214): Lines 1-59, 130-150, 221-322, 343-466 FITT ii (pages 214-227): Lines 536-565, 691-712, 763-784, 811-841, 901-945, 1007-1126 FITT iii (pages 227-245): Lines 1178-1318, 1362-1420, 1468-1557, 1623-1689, 1729-1892, 1922-1978 FITT iv (pages 245-256): Lines 2025-2139, 2160-2531 |
| 第 3 週 | Geoffrey Chaucer Headnotes: (1) “Geoffrey Chaucer, ca. 1343-1400” (pages A256-A259) (2) “The Canterbury Tales [ca. 1386]” (pages A256-A261) (3) “John Gower, ca. 1330-1408” (pages A364-A365) [Read only the first paragraph.] Texts: (1) “Troilus’s Song” (page A362) (2) “From The Canterbury Tales” (pages 1852-1914) Note: The selection “From The Canterbury Tales” is taken from The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1, the 9th edition (General Editor: Martin Puchner, 2014). The line numbers below accord largely with those of Chaucer’s own text in Middle English. (Contact Library’s Photocopying Service.) The General Prologue (pages 1852-1871) [Introduction] Lines 1-42 [The Knight] Lines 42-50, 68-78 [The Squire] Lines 79-100 [The Yeoman] Lines 101-117 [The Nun] Lines 118-145, 163-164 [The Monk] Lines165-176, 198-207 [The Friar] Lines 208-209, 221-252, 266-271 [The Merchant] Lines 271-286 [The Clerk from Oxford] Lines 287-310 [The Sergeant of the Law] Lines 311-317 [The Franklin] Lines 333-350 [The Doctor of Medicine] Lines 413-430 [The Wife of Bath] Lines 447-478 [The Poor Parson] Lines 479-530 [The Miller] Lines 544-553 [The Reeve] Lines 589-601 [The Pardoner] Lines 671-716 [The Conclusion] Lines 717-860 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue (pages 1872-1890). Lines 1-328, 363-457, 509-674, 717-745, 771-845, 856-862 The Wife of Bath’s Tale (pages 1891-1899). Lines 888-954, 989-1130, 1152-1270 The Pardoner’s Prologue (pages 1900-1903). Lines 43-176 The Pardoner’s Tale (pages 1903-1914). Lines 375-682 |
| 第 4 週 | The Religious Allegory and Plays Headnotes: (1) “William Langland, ca. 1330-1388” (pages A388-A391) (2) “William Langland” (page A415) (3) “The York Play of the Crucifixion, ca. 1425” (page A457) (4) “Mystery Plays” (pages A465-A467) (5) “The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play” (page A467) (6) “Everyman, after 1485” (pages A558) Texts: (1) Langland, “From The Vision of Piers Plowman” (pages A391-A413) From The Prologue [The Field of Folk] Lines 1-24, 46-86 Passus 1 [The Treasure of Truth] Lines 1-16, 43-52, 71-76, 204-209 Passus 6 [The Plowing of Pier’s Half-Acre] Lines 105-144, 171-185, 199-217, 278-301, 319-331 Passus 7 [Piers Tears Truth’s Pardon] Lines 1-8, 107-148 (2) “The York Play of the Crucifixion, ca. 1425” (pages A459-A461) Lines 73-156. (3) “The Second Shepherds’ Play” (pages A490-A494) Lines 925-1080. (4) “Everyman” (pages A558-A580) Lines 1-43, 63-145, 184-196, 399-543, 580-609, 653-688, 775-892. |
| 第 5 週 | WOMEN IN POWER Film Screening 1: Elizabeth (1998), on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Headnotes: (1) “Women in Power” (page B193) (2) “Mary I (Mary Tudor) [1516-1558]” (pages B194-B195) (3) “Lady Jane Grey [1537-1554]” (pages B199-B200) (4) “Mary, Queen of Scots [1542-1587]” (pages B208-B210) (5) “Elizabeth I [1533-1603]” (pages B221-B222) (6) “Edmund Spenser, 1552?-1599” (pages B238-B240) (7) “The Shepheardes Calender [1579]” (page B241) (8) “The Faerie Queene [1596]” (pages B247-B249) Texts: (1) Mary I, “The Oration of Queen Mary in the Guildhall, on the First of February, 1554” (pages B198-B199) [Read all, except the third paragraph, which starts with “As concerning the marriage,...”] (2) Lady Jane, “A Letter of the Lady Jane, Sent unto her Father” (page B205) (3) Lady Jane, “A Second Letter to Her Father” (page B207) (4) Mary, Queen of Scots, “A Letter to Elizabeth I, May 17, 1568” (pages B212-B213) [Read only the first two paragraphs, and stop before “At last, it pleased God to deliver me,...”] (5) Elizabeth I, “Verses Written with a Diamond” (page B222) (6) Elizabeth I, “From ‘A speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566’” (pages B226-B227) (Read from the beginning till the end of page B227) (7) Elizabeth I, “On Monsieur’s Departure” (pages B230-B231) (8) Elizabeth I, “A Letter to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, February 10, 1586” (page B231) (9) Elizabeth I, “A Letter to King James VI of Scotland, February 14, 1587” (pages B232-B233) (10) Elizabeth I, “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury” (pages B234-B235) (11) Spencer, The Faerie Queene “The First Booke of The Faerie Queene” Stanzas 1-4 (pages B253-B254) Canto 1 (pages B254-B267) [Read all stanzas except stanzas 9, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 38, 41, 45, 48.] |
| 第 6 週 | The Renaissance Prose Headnotes: (1) “Sir Thomas More, 1478-1535” (pages 569-571) (2) “Faith in Conflict” (pages 671-672) (3) “The English Bible” (page 673) (4) “Book of Common Prayer” (page 689) (5) “Book of Homilies” (pages 692-693) (6) “The Defense of Poesy” (pages 1044-1045) (7) “Sir Francis Bacon [1561-1626]” (pages 1662-1663) Texts: (1) More, Book II, Utopia (1516) (trans. by Robert M. Adams, pages 572-645) [The Geography of Utopia] Read the paragraph “The Island of Utopians...” (pages 597-599). Start from “There are fifty-four cities...” and stop before “The farm workers till the soil...” (pages 599-600) The Cities, Especially Amaurot: Read only the paragraph “If you know one of their cities,...” (page 600) Their Officials: Read only the paragraph “Once a year, ...” (page 602) Their Occupations: Start from “Agriculture is the one occupation...” (page 603) and stop by the end of page. Social Relations: Read the paragraphs “But to return to their manner...” (page 607) |
| 第 7 週 | WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Headnotes: (1) “William Shakespeare, 1564-1616” (pages B718-B722) (2) “Sonnets” (page B722) (3) “Twelfth Night [ca. 1601, 1623]” (pages B739-B741) (4) “Othello [1603-04]” (pages B803-B806) Texts: (1) Sonnets: [Sonnets] 18, 71, 116, 129, 130, and 138 (pages B724-B737). (2) Twelfth Night, or What You Will (pages B741-B802) [Orsino] 1.1, complete (lines 1-40) (pages B741-B742) [Viola on shore] 1.2, complete (lines 1-62) (pages B743-B744) [Viola woos Olivia] 1.5, lines 200-285 (pages B754-B756) [Olivia’s soliloquy] 2.2, lines 17-41 (page B758) [Feste’s song 1] 2.3, lines 37-50 (page B759) [Feste’s song 2] 2.4, lines 50-65 (page B764) [Orsino & Viola] 2.4, lines 78-124 (pages B764-B766) [Feste’s song 3] 5.1, lines 384-403 (page B802) (3) Selections from the plays (Contact Library’s Photocopying Service): Selections are taken from The Norton Shakespeare (Eds. Stephen Greenblatt, et al. 2nd ed. New York and London: Norton, 2008). Romeo and Juliet [Love at first sight] 1.5, lines 41-50 (pages 919-920) [Romeo and Juliet first meet] 1.5, lines 90-108 (page 921) [The balcony scene] 2.1, lines 44-234 (pages 923-927) [Romeo and Juliet say goodbye] 3.5, lines 1-64 (page 949-950) [Parents angry at Juliet] 3.5, lines 176-242 (page 952-954) [Romeo poisons himself] 5.3, lines 84-120 (page 967-968) The Merchant of Venice [Shylock’s speech] 3.1, lines 45-61 (pages 1146-1147) Much Ado About Nothing [Balthasar’s song] 2.3, lines 56-71 (page 1434). [Claudio at Hero’s grave] 5.3, lines 1-21 (page 1467). Julius Caesar [Brutus’ speech] 3.2, lines 12-31 (page 1588) “Epitaph to Himself” (page 2027) Macbeth [Macbeth’s soliloquy] 5.5, lines 18-27 (page 2628) The Tempest [Ariel’s song] 1.2, lines 400-408 (page 3076) |
| 第 8 週 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION Midterm Examination, plus Film Quiz 1: Elizabeth (1998) (Bring your student’s I.D. card) |
| 第 9 週 | THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA Headnotes: (1) “Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593” (pages B658-B659) (2) “Doctor Faustus [1604, 1616]” (page B679) (3) “Ben Jonson, 1572-1637” (pages B991-B993) (4) “Volpone [1606, 1616]” (pages B993-B994) Texts: (1) Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (pages B680-B715) Prologue. [Introducing Faustus] Lines 8-28 (pages B680-B681) Scene 1 [Championing necromancy] Lines 17-27, 42-66, 100-111 (pages B681-B684) Scene 3 [Conjuring the spirits] Lines 5-15, 23-103 (pages B686-688) Scene 5 [The pact with the devil] Lines 15-75, 89-136, 180-208, 240-278 (pages B691-B697) Scene 7 [Teasing the Pope] Lines 49-98 (pages B701-B702) Scene 12 [Helen of Troy] Lines 53-100 (pages B711-B712) Scene 13 [Faustus’s damnation] Lines 26-78, 92-113 (pages B713-B715) (2) Jonson, Volpone, or the Fox (pages B995-B1089) [Volpone’s scheming plan] 1.1: lines 70-91 (pages B998-B999) [Volpone to feign sickness] 1.2: lines 67-129 (pages B1001-B1003) [Scheming on Corbaccio] 1.4: lines 57-97 (pages B1007-B1008) [Scheming on Corvino] 1.5: lines 1-43 (pages B1010-B1012) [Volpone on the gullible] 2.2: lines 159-172 (pages B1022-B1023) [Selling ointment] 2.2: lines 194-205 (page B1023) [Volpone first meeting Celia] 2.2: lines 222-229 (page B1024) [Smitten with Celia] 2.4: lines 1-20 (pages B1025-B1026) [Corvino harsh on Celia] 2.5: lines 29-49, 57-73 (pages B1027-B1028) [Mosca to persuade Corvino about Celia] 2.6: lines 1-9(pages B1028-B1029), 32-55 (pages B1029-B1030), 80-95 (pages B1030-B1031) [Corvino confronts Celia] 2.7: complete (lines 1-18) (page B1031) [Celia forced to meet Volpone] 3.7: lines 10-40 (pages B1040-B1041), lines 70-95 (page B1042), lines 133-154 (pages B1043-B1044), lines 165-194 (pages B1044-B1045), lines 205-224 (pages B1045-B1046) [Bonario to Celia’s rescue] 3.7: lines 239-278 (pages B1046-B1047) |
| 第 10 週 | THE RENAISSANCE POETRY Headnotes: (1) “Sir Walter Ralegh, 1552-1618” (pages B526-B527) (2) “Sir Philip Sidney, 1554-1586” (pages B539-B541) (3) “John Donne, 1572-1631” (pages B920-B922) (4) “Robert Herrick, 1591-1674” (page B1306) Texts: (1) Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder “I find no peace” (pages B122-B123) “Madam, withouten many words” (page B125) (2) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “From The Fourth Book of Virgil [Dido in Love],” (pages B141-B142) (3) “Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh” [Ralegh to Elizabeth] (pages B233-B234) [Elizabeth to Ralegh] (page B234) (4) Thomas Campion, “When to her lute Corinna sings” (pages B522-B523) (5) Sir Walter Ralegh, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (pages B527-B528) (6) Sir Philip Sidney, “From Astrophil and Stella” [Sonnet] 20 (page B590) [Sonnet] 87 (page B600) (7) Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (page B678) (8) John Donne “From Songs and Sonnets”: “The Flea” (page B923) “Song” [Go and catch a falling star] (pages B924-B925) “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (pages B935-9366) “From Holy Sonnets”: [Sonnet] 5 (page B961) [Sonnet] 14 (pages B963-B965) (9) Ben Jonson “Song: To Celia” (pages B1098-B1099) “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us”: lines 17-49, 64-80 (pages B1106-B1108) (10) Mary Wroth, “Song” [Sweetest love, return again] (pages B1117-B1118) (11) George Herbert, “Virtue” (pages B1264-B1265) (12) Robert Herrick “Upon the Loss of His Mistresses” (page B1307) “Dreams” (page B1308) “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (page B1312) “How Roses Came Red” (page B1314) “Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast” (page B1314) “His Prayer to Ben Jonson” (page B1315) (13) Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (pages B1346-B1347) |
| 第 11 週 | JOHN MILTON Headnotes: (1) “Crisis of Authority” (page B1384) (2) “John Milton, 1608-1674” (pages B1447-B1451) (3) “Paradise Lost [1674]” (pages B1493-B1494) Texts: (1) “Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint” (page B1493) (2) Paradise Lost (pages B1495-B1727) Book 1 [Invocation to the Muse] Lines 1-26 (pages B1496-B1497) [The fall of Satan] Lines 26-83 (pages B1497-B1498) [Satan’s speech 1] Lines 106-124 (pages B1498- B1499) [Satan’s speech 2] Lines 157-191 (page B1500) [Satan’s speech 3] Lines 225-270 (pages B1501- B1502) Book 3 [The Almighty Father speaks] Lines 56-99 (pages B1538- B1539) [The Son of God responds] Lines 227-265 (pages B1542-B1543) Book 4 [Eden sighted by Satan] Lines 205-222 (page B1558) [Adam and Eve sighted by Satan] Lines 285-324 (pages B1560-B1561) [Adam and Eve speak] Lines 407-448 (pages B1562-B1563) [Satan’s soliloquy] Lines 502-535 (pages B1564-B1565) Book 8 [Archangel Raphael’s benediction] Lines 618-653 (page B1642) Book 9 [Satan enters the serpent’s body] Lines 179-191 (page B1647) [Serpent catches Eve’s attention] Lines 527-554 (pages B1654-B1655) [Serpent leads Eve to the trees] Lines 643-663 (page B1657) [Serpent persuades Eve] Lines 678-744 (pages B1658-B1659) [Persuading herself, Eve eats the fruit] Lines 766-793 (page B1660) [Eve looks for Adam] Lines 847-916 (pages B1661-B1663) [Adam decides] Lines 952-959 (page B1663) [Adam eats the fruit] Lines 990-1016 (pages B1664-B1665) [The consequence] Lines 1034-1059 (pages B1665-B1666) [Bad feelings] Lines 1121-1133 (page B1667) Book 10 [Heaven learns the news] Lines 1-18 (page B1669) [God gives punishments] Lines 115-181 (pages B1671-B1673) [Eve’s punishment] Lines 192-208 (page B1673) [Adam’s lament] Lines 769-801 (page B1686) Book 12 [Archangel Michael speaks] Lines 574-605 (page B1726) [Adam and Eve leave Eden] Lines 606-649 (pages B1726-B1727) |
| 第 12 週 | DRYDEN & POPE Headnotes: (1) “John Dryden, 1631-1700” (pages C34-C35) (2) “Absalom and Achitophel [1681]” (pages C38-C39) (3) “Mac Flecknoe [ca. 1679, 1682]” (pages C62-C63) (4) “Alexander Pope, 1688-1744” (Read from page C486 and stop before “Pope has attained metrical variety” on C488.) Texts: (1) Dryden, “Song from Marriage à la Mode” (page C38) (2) Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem” (pages C38-C62) [King David had no succession] lines 7-16 (page C40) [Absalom, David’s bastard son] lines 17-36 (page C40) [The Jews as a headstrong race] lines 41-56 (pages C40-C41) [David ruled well, nonetheless] lines 69-84 (page C41) [Jebusites (Catholics) were oppressed] lines 85-97 (pages C41-C42) [The Popish Plot was made up] lines 108-117 (page C42) [The consequence of the Popish Plot] lines 130-149 (pages C42-C43) [The false Achitophel] lines 150-174 (page C43) (3) Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe, or a Satire upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T. S.” (pages C63-C68) [Flecknoe found Shadwell his successor] lines 1-23 (pages C63-C64) [Shadwell at the throne] lines 114-138 (pages C66-C67) [Flecknoe’s prayer for Shadwell 1] lines 139-148 (page C67) [Flecknoe’s prayer for Shadwell 2] lines 155-162 (page C67) (4) Dryden, “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day.” Read stanzas 3, 4, 5, and 6 (pages C70-C71). (5) Dryden, “From An Essay of Dramatic Poetry.” Read “[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]” (pages C80-C81). (6) Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” (pages C490-C506) [Which lacks skill, writing or judging?] lines 1-4 (page C490) [Rare are true poets and critics] lines 11-18 (page C491) [Those half-learn’d witlings] lines 36-41 (page C491) [To bear a critic’s noble name] lines 46-51 (page C491) [To follow Nature] lines 68-83 (page C492) [Nature is bound by laws] lines 88-91 (page C492) [A little learning is a dangerous thing] lines 215-232 (page C495) [To err is human, to forgive divine] lines 516-525 (page C501) (7) Pope, “The Rape of the Lock, An Heroic-Comical Poem” (pages C506-C525) Canto 1 [Invocation to the Muse] lines 1-12 (pages C508-C509) [Ariel, Belinda’s guardian Sylph] lines 19-26 (page C509) [Ariel warns Belinda of a danger] lines 105-116 (page C511) Canto 2 [Every eye was fixed on Belinda] lines 5-14 (page C512) [The Baron admires her two locks of hair] lines 19-34 (page C512) [Ariel calls the fairies to Belinda’s side] lines 61-72 (page C513) [Ariel tells them his worries] lines 101-111 (page C514) Canto 3 [The Baron desires the radiant Lock] lines 117-124 (page C517) [He is near Belinda’s neck] lines 125-138 (pages C517-C518) [He cuts her hair] lines 147-154 (page C518) [Belinda screams] lines 155-160 (page C518) [The Baron is victorious] lines 161-162, 171-178 (page C518) Canto 4 [Umbriel, a gnome, visits the underworld] lines 1-18 (pages C518-C519) [Umbriel receives a bag and a vial as gifts] lines 79-88 (page C520) [The Baron remains unrepentant] lines 131-140 (page C521) [Umbriel breaks the vial to release Belinda’s grief] lines 141-158, 165-176 (pages C521-C522) Canto 5 [Clarissa comes to Belinda’s defense] lines 1-8 (page C522) [Clarissa: “frail beauty must decay”] lines 25-34 (page C523) [Like Gods they fight] lines 35-44 (page C523) [Fierce Belinda on the Baron flies] lines 75-88 (page C524) [“Restore the lock!” she cries] lines 103-114 (pages C524-C525) [The Muse saw the Lock rise upward] lines 123-132 (page C525) [The Lock is hidden amidst the stars] lines 141-150 (page C525) (8) “From An essay on Man” (pages C535-C543) [From what do we know?] lines 17-32 (page C536) [Respecting man] lines 51-60 (pages C536-C537) [Say not man is imperfect] lines 69-76 (page C537) |
| 第 13 週 | MAJOR PLAYWRIGHTS Film Screening 2: Shakespeare in Love (1998), on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Headnotes: (1) “John Webster, 1580?-1625?” (pages B1121-B1122) (2) “William Congreve, 1670-1729” (pages C187-C188) (3) “John Gay, 1685-1732” (pages C657-C656) Texts: (1) Webster, The Duchess of Malfi [1613, 1623] (pages B1122-B1197) [Antonio’s praise on the Duchess] 1.2: lines 76-117 (pages B1126-1127) [What do you think of marriage?] 1.3: lines 99-181 (pages B1126-B1129) [Bosola kills the Duchess] 4.2: lines 125-221 (pages B1174-B1176) [Ferdinand: Is she dead?] 4.2: lines 234-268 (page B1177) (2) Congreve, The Way of the World [1700] (pages C188-C248) [Women on why men are hateful] 2: start from beginning and stop before “Fainall: My dear” (pages C200-C201) [Mirabell and Millamant quarrel as lovers] 2: start from “Millamant: Mirabelle, did not you take exceptions last night?” and stop before “Mirabelle: I have something more—Gone!” (pages C207-C208) [Song. Set by Mr. John Eccles] 3 (page C217) (3) Gay, The Beggar’s Opera [1728] (pages C659-C703) [Peachum and Mrs. Peachum debate about their daughter Polly’s lover] 1.4: starts from “Mrs. Peachum: Captain Macheath is very fond of the girl” till the end of scene 4 (pages C663-C664) [Mrs. Peachum’s soliloquy] 1.5: complete (page C664) [Peachum confronts Polly] 1.7: complete (pages C665-C666) [Polly: Can love be controlled by advice?] 1.8: Air 8. Grim King of the Ghost (page C667) [The lovers exchange love vows] 1.13: complete (pages C671-C673) [The love triangle] 2.13: start from beginning and stop before Air 36. Irish trot (pages C685-C686) [Lucy’s jealousy, rage, and love] 3.7: complete (pages C695) [Lucy is to poison Polly] 3.8: complete (pages C695-C697) [Polly turns suspicious] 3.9: complete (page C697) [Macheath bids farewell to Lucy and Polly] 3.15: complete (pages C701-C702) [Poetic justice] 3.16: complete (pages C702-C703) [Macheath is saved] 3.17: start from beginning and stop before Air 69. Lumps of pudding (page C703) |
| 第 14 週 | JONATHAN SWIFT Headnotes: (1) “Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745” (pages C254-C256) (2) “Gulliver’s Travels” (pages C278-C279) Texts: (1) A Modest Proposal [1729] (pages C454-C460) [On the prodigious number of children] Read from “I think it is agreed by all parties” and stop before “As to my own part” (page C454) [A modest proposal] Read from “I am assured by our merchants” and stop before “Infant’s flesh will be in season” (pages C454-C456) (2) Gulliver’s Travels [1726, 1735] (pages C279-C454). Part 1 [Arrival in Lilliput] Part 1, Chapter 1 Read from “It would not be proper” and stop before “These people are most excellent mathematicians” (pages C284-C288) [The Parade] 1.3 Read the paragraph “Two days after this adventure” (page C298) [Articles and conditions to set Gulliver free] 1.3 Read from “I had sent so many memorials” and stop before “I swore and subscribed” (pages C298-C300) [Defeating the Blefuscudians] 1.5 Read from “The Blefuscudians, who had not” and stop before “About three weeks” (pages C304-C306) [Putting out the fire] 1.5 Read from “The reader may remember” till the end of chapter (pages C306-C307) [Articles of impeachment] 1.7 Read from “You are to know” and stop before “Upon this incident” (pages C314-C316) [The sentence on Gulliver] 1.8 Read from “In three days your friend” and stop before “It was a custom” (page C317) [Gulliver’s defection to Blefuscu] 1.8 Read from “At last I fixed upon a resolution” till the end of chapter (page C318) [Leaving Blefuscu] 1.8 Read from “In about a month” and stop before “Having thus prepared all things” (pages C320-C321) Part 2 [Arrival in Brobdingnag] 2.1 Read the paragraph “On the 16th day of June, 1703” (pages C324-C325) [Gulliver’s first encounter with people] 2.1 Read the paragraph “Scared and confounded as I was” (pages C326) [The farmer] 2.1 Read the paragraph “The farmer by this time was convinced” (pages C326-C327) [Arriving at the court] 2.3 Read from “The frequent labors I underwent” and stop before “His Majesty sent for...” (pages C334-C336) [Dining with the Queen] 2.3 Read the paragraph “The Queen became so fond of my company” (pages C337-C338) [Danger 1: flies & wasps] 2.3 Read from “I was frequently rallied” till the end of chapter (paged C339-C340) [The traveling closet] 2.4 Read from “Besides the large box” and stop before “I was very desirous to see” (page C342) [Danger 2: the dog, etc.] 2.5 Read from “But a more dangerous accident” and stop before “I cannot tell whether” (page C344) [The Maids of Honor] 2.5 Read from “The Maids of Honor” and stop before “One day a young gentleman” (pages C345-346) [A cow dung] 2.5 Read the paragraph “I was every day furnishing the court” (page C349) [The King’s inquiry about Europe] 2.6 Read the paragraph “The King, who, as I before observed” (pages C350) [On the English Parliament] 2.6 Read from “I began my discourse” and stop before “I then descended to the Courts of Justice” (page C351) [On the English election system] 2.6 Read the paragraph “He then desired to know” (page C352) [The King concluded] 2.6 Read from “He was perfectly astonished” till the end of chapter (page C354) [On making the cannon balls] 2.7 Read from “To confirm what I have now said” and stop before “A strange effect” (pages C355-C356) [An eagle snatched Gulliver’s box] 2.8 Read the paragraph “In a little time” (pages C359-C360) [Gulliver’s rescue at sea] 2.8 Read the paragraph “I found on effect” (page C361) Part 3 [Learning to name things] 3.2 Read the paragraph “While we were at dinner” (page C371) [Laputa] 3.2 Read the paragraph “The word, which I interpret” (page C371) [Lagado] 3.2 Read the paragraph “In our journey towards Lagado” (page C372) [Men and women in Laputa] 3.2 Read from “They are so perpetually alarmed” and stop before “The wives and daughters” (pages C373-C374) Part 4 [Arrival in the Houyhnhnm country] 4.1 Read the paragraph “In the midst of this distress” (page C410) [Houyhnhnm and Yahoo] 4.1 Read from “Upon the whole” and stop before “After some farther discourse” (pages C411-C412) [Learning the language] 4.3 Read from “My principal endeavor” and stop before “The curiosity and impatience” (page C416) [The word Houyhnhnm] 4.3 Read the paragraph “The word Houyhnhnm” (page C417) [On the governing animals in England] 4.4 Read from “To return from this digression” and stop before “It put me to the pains” (pages C419-C420) [Why the English went to sea] 4.4 Read the paragraph “I said, my birth was of honest parents” (page C421) [On the state of England] 4.5 Read from “In obedience, therefore” and stop before “I was going on to more” (pages C422-C424) [On the English legal system] 4.5 Read from “He added that he had heard” and stop before “‘It is a maxim...’” (pages C424-C425) [Leaving the Houyhnhnm country] 4.11 Read the paragraph “I began this desperate voyage” (pages C445-C446) [Coming home] 4.11 Read the paragraph “My wife and family received me with great surprise” (pages C449-C450) [The final words] 4.12 Read from “Thus gentle reader” and stop before “I could heartily wish a law” (page C450) [The last moral] 4.12 Read the paragraph “Having thus answered” (page C453) |
| 第 15 週 | MAJOR NOVELISTS Headnotes: (1) “John Bunyan,1628-1688” (pages C95-C96) (2) “Aphra Behn, 1640?-1689” (pages C133-C135) (3) “Daniel Defoe, ca. 1660-1731” (pages C566-C567) (4) “Henry Fielding [1707-1754]” (pages C580-C581) (5) “Samuel Richardson [1689-1761]” (pages C587-C588) (6) “Frances Burney [1752-1840]” (pages C592-C593) (7) “Laurence Sterne [1713-1768]” (pages C862-864) Texts: (1) Bunyan, from The Pilgrim’s Progress [1678] (pages C96-C104) [Christian sets out for the Celestial City] Complete (pages C96-C99) [The Slough of Despond] Complete (page C99) [Vanity Fair] Complete (pages C100-C102) (2) Behn, Oroonoko; or The Royal Slave [1688] (pages C141-C188) [The narrator and the location] Read from “I was myself an eyewitness” and stop before “But before I give you the story” (page C141) [Prince Oroonoko and Imoinda] Read from “Those on that continent” (page C143) and stop before “There is a certain ceremony” (page C147) (3) Defoe, from The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [1719] (pages C567-C577) (4) Fielding, from The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews [1742]: Preface (pages C581-C586) (5) Richardson, from Clarissa [1747-48]: Preface (pages C589-C592) (6) Burney, from Evelina (pages C593-C599) (7) Sterne, from A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy [1768] “The Pulse. Paris.” (pages C894-C896) “The Husband. Paris.” (page C896) “The Gloves. Paris.” (page C897) |
| 第 16 週 | JOHNSON & BOSWELL Headnotes: (1) “Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784” (pages C711-C713) (2) “The Vanity of Human Wishes” (page C713) (3) “Rasselas” (page C734) (4) “A Dictionary of the English Language” (page C800) (5) “The Preface to Shakespeare” (page C807) (6) “James Boswell, 1740-1795” (pages C829-C830) Texts: (1) Rambler No. 5 [On Spring] Read from “There is, indeed, something inexpressibly pleasing” and stop before “Yet there are men” (page C727) (2) Idler No. 31 [On Idleness] Read from “Some are always in a state of preparation” and stop before “This art has for many years” (page C733) (3) Johnson, Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction] Read from the beginning and stop before “I remember a remark” (page C723) (4) Rambler No. 60 [Biography] Read the paragraph “But biography has often” (page C731) and the paragraph “If the biographer” (page C732) (5) A Dictionary of the English Language [1755] (pages C801-C806) Read the entries: ANTHOLOGY, ENTHUSIASM, LEXICOGRAPHER, OATS, PATRON, PENSION, SATIRE (pages C804-C806) (6) The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia [1759] (pages C734-C800) [Who Rasselas is] Chap. 1 Read from “Rasselas was the fourth son” and stop before “The palace which the wisdom” (pages C734-C735) [Rasselas’ discontent] Chap. 2 Read from “Thus they rose in the morning” and stop before “After this he lifted” (pages C736-C737) [Rasselas wants nothing] Chap. 3 Read from “‘That I want nothing’” till the end of the chapter (page C738) [Rasselas meets Imlac] Chap. 7 Read the paragraph “This inundation confined all the princes” (page C744) [Imlac’s past] Chap. 8 Read the paragraph “‘Sir,’ said Imlac, ‘my history will not be long’” (page C744) [Imlac’s past continued] Chap. 9 Read the paragraph “‘When I first entered upon the world of waters’” (page C746) [Imlac on poetry] Chap. 10 Read from “‘I was desirous to add’” and stop before “‘In so wide a survey’” (pages C748) [The Europeans] Chap. 11 Read the paragraph “‘The Europeans’” (page C751) [Imlac comes home] Chap. 12 Read from “‘From Palestine’” and stop before “‘Hast thou here found happiness’” (pages C751-C752) [Rasselas and Imlac debate] Chap. 12 Read from “‘My dear Imlac’” till the end of the chapter (page C753) (7) From The Preface to Shakespeare [1765] (pages C807-C817). [As the poet of nature] Read the paragraph “Shakespeare is, above all writers” (pages C808-809) [As the mirror of life] Read from “Other dramatists can only” till the end of the page (page C810) [Against the three unities] Read from “To the unities of time and place” till the end of the page (page C813), and read the paragraph “The truth is that the spectators” (page C814) [On Twelfth Night] Read the paragraph “Twelfth Night” (page C816) (8) From Milton [1779] (pages C819-C825) [On Paradise Lost as an epic] Read the paragraph “The subject of an epic poem” (page C821) [The merits of Paradise Lost] Read the paragraph “He had considered creation” (page C823) [The demerits of Paradise Lost] Read the paragraph “The plan of Paradise Lost” (page C824) and the paragraph “But original deficience” (page C825) (9) From Pope (pages C826-C829) [Pope and Dryden compared 1] Read the paragraph “He professed to have learned” (page C827) [Pope’s merits] Read the paragraph “Pope was not content to satisfy” (pages C827-C828) [Pope and Dryden compared 2] Read from “In acquired knowledge” and stop before “Of genius” (page C828) (10) Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. [1791] (pages C832-C862) [Johnson meets King George III] Read the paragraph “His Majesty having been informed” (page C848) and the paragraph “His Majesty inquired” (pages C848-C849) [Fear of death] Read the paragraph “When we were alone” (page C849) [Johnson faces death] Read from “About eight or ten days” and stop before “Amidst the melancholy clouds” (page C861) |
| 第 17 週 | FINAL EXAMINATION Final Examination, plus Film Quiz 2: Shakespeare in Love (1998) (Bring your student’s I.D. card.) |
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volumes. A, B, C. 10th edition. Edited by Stephen Greenblatt et al. Norton, 2018.
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