大一英文一:文學作品導讀

Freshman English (1):an Introductory Approach to Literature

學期

110-1

學分

3 學分

當期課號

1591

永久課號

DFL1117

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	週三
2 09:00–09:50	大一英文一:文學作品導讀 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

先修科目

Course Ref. No.: 1591 Permanent Course ID: DFL 1117 Time and place: BCD (9:00 AM-12:00 PM), Wednesday, in HB326

教學方式

Teaching assistant: Angela Yu 游師晴 (angelayu0207@gmail.com) (Grade matters) COURSE REGULATIONS 1. Class attendance is mandatory. An official leave from the University Administration must be obtained for an absence at the “Student’s Leave Application System” (學生請假系統) at https://stuoffcourse.nycu.edu.tw/ (via https://portal.nycu.edu.tw/). 2. Classroom decorum: a. No food or beverage (except drinking water) is allowed in class. b. Electronic devices (laptops, tablets, iPads, etc.) are discouraged from use in class. c. Cellular phones must not be seen or used during class sessions and breaks. d. No internet connection is allowed through any devices except in a presentation. e. No taping, recording, podcasting, or photo-taking is allowed in class unless permission is granted. f. All precautionary protocols against the covid pandemic apply. 3. Correspondence: a. Write your e-mail in either English or Chinese. b. Always specify your English or Chinese name in full, as well as your student’s ID, in all your correspondence. c. All course-related announcements will be sent to your e-mail address on file at the website of the NYCU Online Course Registration System (https://course. nycu.edu.tw/) and/or e-Campus (https://e3.nycu.edu.tw). Keep good maintenance of your mailbox and check your mails regularly. d. Internet activities and course grades will be posted at our e-Campus page. To enter, key in the user ID and password you use for logging in at the Course Registration site. e. Whom to write to: write to the T.A. only if an error in your grade is suspected. Otherwise, direct all your queries to the instructor. 4. Reserved materials. To locate the book items and films on DVD on reserve at the library, follow these steps: a. at the library search page (http://webpac.lib.nctu.edu.tw/), click on the tag “Course Reserves” (指定參考書) above; b. at the slot “Field to search” (查詢欄位), pull down the window and select “Course Number” (課程號碼); c. key in the current course number as 1591 to retrieve the reserved list. 5. Online platform. Microsoft Teams will serve as our default platform for the online sessions. Make sure that you already have a Teams account for the purpose. 6. Instructions and details on the midterm and final examinations will be released separately at e-Campus. Each exam contains a vocabulary test, identification questions, and short essay writing. 7. Rights. The instructor reserves the final and exclusive rights to amend any portion of the course syllabus, including the grading scale, course schedule, regulations, and instructions on assignments and examinations. Weekly Quizzes 1. The 12 weekly quizzes, starting in week 2, aim to examine if the assigned readings have been read, but not necessarily if they have been fully comprehended. 2. Each quiz has four questions and will be graded with the scale of 1 to 5. 3. Quizzes will be held as soon as the class begins. Latecomers cannot take the quiz, but must report themselves to the instructor and receive 1.0 as their quiz grade. 4. A student who is granted an official leave will receive his or her quiz grade’s semester average as the grade of the quiz he or she has missed. For example, if the average of all the quizzes a student has taken is 4.65, he or she shall receive 4.65 for the missing quiz, if a leave has been granted. 5. The due credit a student shall receive for a granted leave will only be calculated and released by the end of the semester. Film Quizzes 1. Film quizzes take up 10 points of the semester grades. 2. Two (2) films are assigned and will be screened at the NYCU Cinema for the Arts (HB326). The screening schedule is as follows: a. Film Screening 1: Our Town (2003), dir. James Naughton. 120 minutes. DVD. Time: Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. Film Quiz 1 on Our Town will be given during the midterm. b. Film Screening 2: Fences (2016), dir. Denzel Washington. 138 minutes. Blu-ray. Time: Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 (Monday) at 6:30 p.m. Film Quiz 2 on Fences will be given during the final. 3. Students are required to sign up at each screening for their attendance. 4. Alternatively, students can read the plays in lieu of watching the films: a. Our Town (Thornton Wilder, 1938) [SR]. b. Fences (August Wilson, 1987) (pp. 1230-1281). 5. The films on DVD are also available on one-day reserve at the Main Library. 6. In each quiz there are 12 multiple-choice questions, each of which is worth 1 point. The highest grade you can score for each quiz, however, is 10 points. 7. The quizzes mean to check whether you have watched the films or read the plays, not whether you remember the details in the plots. A rough knowledge about the characters’ names and their relations will help, which you could look up at the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/) and the Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/). 8. No materials or notes shall be consulted during any of the quizzes.

評分方式

Grading Scale Weekly quizzes (the average of all weekly quizzes multiplied by 6) 30 points Midterm examination 25 points Final examination 35 points Film quizzes (on 2 assigned films) 10 points 5% of extra bonus (if full attendance, with 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

週次	主題
第 1 週	 indicates a fiction or a play. The item will not be in the exam. [SR] Supplementary Readings Poetry: An Introduction No quiz in the first week. “Narrative Poetry” (p. 735). “Dramatic Poetry” (p. 737). “Lyric Poetry” (p. 738). Poetry William Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (1807) (pp. 738-739). Song of the Day: Jane Taylor, “The Star” (1806) (p. 911). Anonymous, “The Twenty-Third Psalm” (p. 878). William Blake, “Songs of Innocence: Introduction” (1789) (p. 1057). “The Lamb” (pp. 1058-1059). “The Chimney Sweeper” (p. 1059). “The Tyger” (1794) (p. 1060). “The Garden of Love” (p. 1061). “The Chimney Sweeper” (p. 1061). “Holy Thursday” (pp. 1061-1062). “The Sick Rose” (1794) (p. 888). Emily Dickinson, “The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean” (1866) (p. 742). “Because I could not stop for Death—” (1863) (p. 872). “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” (1861) (p. 1022-1023). “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—” (1862) (p. 1023). “I stepped from Plank to Plank” (1865) (p. 1025). “Tell all the truth but tell it slant—” (1872) (p. 1025). Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (1916) (pp. 892-893). “Fire and Ice” (1920) (p. 1143). “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923) (pp. 1143-1144). “Haiku: An Album” (pp. 976-983).
第 2 週	Romantic Relationship “Reading and Responding to Fiction” (p. 20).  Linda Brewer, “20/20” (1996) (pp. 20-21). “Sample Writing: Annotation and Notes on ‘20/20’” (pp. 21-23).  Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927) (pp. 665-668).  [SR] Octavio Paz, “My Life with the Wave” (1951) (pp. 642-646). Poetry Lydia Davis, “Head, Heart” (2007) (p. 732). Billy Collins, “Divorce” (2008) (p. 742). Aphra Behn, “On Her Loving Two Equally” (1684) (pp. 746-747). Richard Lovelace, “Song, To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” (1649) (p. 784). Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678) (p. 911). Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How Do I Love Thee?” (1850) (p. 970). Song of the Day: Christopher Marlow, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1600) (pp. 803-804). Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (1600) (pp. 804-805).
第 3 週	Girlhood  [SR] Alice Munro, “How I Met My Husband” (1974) (pp. 208-219).  Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Volar” (1993) (pp. 306-308).  Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” (1983) (pp. 675-677). Poetry William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” (1800) (p. 776). Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Changeling” (1993) (pp. 788-789). “Situation” (pp. 796-797). Rita Dove, “Daystar” (1986) (p. 796). Linda Pastan, “Marks” (1978) (p. 871). “To a Daughter Leaving Home” (1988) (p. 1151). Song of the Day: **[SR] T. S. Eliot, “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” (1939).
第 4 週	Fatherhood  [SR] Kazuo Ishiguro 石黑一雄, “A Family Supper” (1982) (pp. 566-573).  [SR] Yiyun Li李翊雲 “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” (2005) (pp. 262-271). [SR] Yiyun Li, “What I Could Not Write about Was Why I was Writing” (2004) (pp. 271-272). Recommended film: The Remains of the Day (1989). Poetry Simon J. Ortiz, “My Father’s Song” (1976) (pp. 845-846). Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” (1966) (p. 846). Andrew Hudgins, “Begotten” (1994) (p. 853). Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” (1948) (p. 857). Roo Borson, “After a Death” (1989) (p. 896). Sharon Olds, “The Victims” (1984) (p. 937). Recommended: **Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” (1965) (pp. 1103-1105).
第 5 週	Homecoming “Allegory and Myth” (pp. 381-382).  [SR] W. Somerset Maugham, “The Appointment in Samarra” (1933) (pp. 4-5).  Amy Tan 譚恩美, “A Pair of Tickets” (1989) (pp. 293-306). Recommended film: **The Joy Luck Club (1993). Poetry Li-Young Lee, “Persimmons” (1986) (pp. 801-803). Cathy Song, “Heaven” (1988) (pp. 826-827). Ezra Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (1915) (pp. 1157-1158). Film Screening 1 (Monday, 10/18) Our Town (2003), dir. James Naughton. 120 mins. Or students can read the play Our Town (Thornton Wilder, 1938) [SR].
第 6 週	Thrillers “The Dramatic Monologue” (pp. 742-743). “Monsters: An Album” (pp. 259-260).  Margaret Atwood, “Lusus Naturae” (2004) (pp. 260-264).  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) (pp. 571-582).  Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966) (pp. 114-127). Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” (1950) (pp. 779-780). Anonymous, “There was a young girl from St. Paul” (p. 910). Sharon Olds, “Sex without Love” (1984) (p. 859). Adrienne Rich, “My mouth hovers across your breasts” (1986) (p. 998). Marie Howe, “Practicing” (1998) (p. 789-790). Natasha Trethewey, “Myth” (2007) (p. 956). Song of the Day: Bruce Springsteen, “Nebraska” (1982) (pp. 743-744).
第 7 週	Irony “Style and Tone” (p. 515).  Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953) (pp. 516-526).  William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1931) (pp. 658-664). Poetry Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory” (1897) (p. 735). Langston Hughes, “Ballard of the Landlord” (1940) (pp. 778-779). Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse” (1971) (p. 849). William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say” (1934) (p. 862). Song of the Day: Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964) (pp. 924-925).
第 8 週	MIDTERM EXAMINATION Film Quiz 1. Bring your student I.D. No textbooks and cell phone are allowed.
第 9 週	The Modernists “Key Figures of Speech” (pp. 382-383).  Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall” (1917) (pp. 186-192).  James Joyce, “Araby” (1914) (pp. 288-292). Poetry Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” (1913) (p. 979). Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” (1923) (pp. 1171-1172). William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1890) (p. 1033). “Sailing to Byzantium” (1927) (pp. 1038-1039). W. H. Auden, “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” (1936) (p. 837). “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (1939) (pp. 1040-1041). [Read only Part III.] Stephen Bordland, “Sample Writing: Response Paper” (2019) (pp. 841-843). Recommended film: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
第 10 週	Grief (1) “Cross-cultural Encounters: An Album” (pp. 477-478).  Bharati Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief” (1988) (pp. 478-490). Poetry Mahmoud Darwish, “Identity Card” (1964) (pp. 814-815). Yehuda Amichai, “On Yom Kippur in 1967...” (1968) (pp. 816-817). Agha Shahid Ali, “Postcard from Kashmir” (1987) (pp. 827-828). Amit Majmudar, “Dothead” (2011) (pp. 875-876). Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (1952) (p. 955). Pat Mora, “Elena” (1985) (p. 1048). Song of the Day: **[SR] Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah” (1984).
第 11 週	“Cultural and Historical Contexts: The Harlem Renaissance” (pp. 1065-1070).  James Baldwin, “Sonny Blues” (1957) (pp. 91-113). Poetry Walt Whitman, “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” (1855, 1881) (pp. 777-778). ---, “I Hear America Singing” (1860) (pp. 938-939). Langston Hughes, “Harlem” (1951) (p. 1073). ---, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1926) (p. 1074). ---, “I, Too” (1932) (p. 1075). Angelina Grimké, “Tenebris” (1927) (p. 1073). Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” (1919) (p. 1077). ---, “The White House” (1937) (p. 1078). [SR] Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb” (2021).
第 12 週	“Questions to Ask When Reading a Play” (pp. 1195-1196).  [SR] Tom Stoppard, “The Real Thing” (1982). Poetry Tracy K. Smith, “Ash” (2015) (p. 874). Emma Bolden, “House Is an Enigma” (2014) (pp. 874-875). Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” (1978) (pp. 838-839). Dudley Randall, “Ballad of Birmingham” (1969) (pp. 922-923). Film Screening 2 (Monday, 12/6) Fences (2016), dir. Denzel Washington. 138 mins. Or students can read the play Fences (August Wilson, 1987) (pp. 1230-1281).
第 13 週	Drama (1): Renaissance Theatre “The Author’s Work as Context: William Shakespeare” (pp. 1332-1338).  William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) [Robin and the fairy] “Either I mistake your shape” 2.1.32-59 (pp. 1348-1349). [Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena] “Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood” 2.2.35-156 (pp. 1356-1359). [Lovers’ quarrels] “I go, I go; look how I go” 3.2.100-353 (pp. 1366-1373). [Robin’s concluding remark] “If we shadows” 5.1.408-423 (p. 1395).  William Shakespeare, from Hamlet (1601) [First soliloquy] “O, that this too too solid flesh” 1.2.129-159 (pp. 1404-1405). [Old Hamlet’s ghost] “O my prophetic soul!” 1.5.40-112 (pp. 1414-1416). [Fourth soliloquy] “To be, or not to be, that is the question” 3.1.56-69 (p. 1438). [At the Queen’s closet] “’A will come straight” 3.4.1-162 (pp. 1453-1457). [Seventh soliloquy] “How all occasions do inform” 4.5.32-66 (pp. 1464-1465). [SR] Modern English versions available at Shakespeare Made Easy Series. Poetry William Shakespeare, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1609) (p. 878). ---, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (1609) (p. 967). ---, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (1609) (p. 968). “Poetic Meter” (pp. 905). “The Basic Metrical Feet of Poetry” (pp. 906-907).
第 14 週	“Critical Contexts: Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’” (pp. 607-609).  Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (1990) (pp. 609-622). Poetry Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (1945) (p. 879). Brian Turner, “Jundee Ameriki” (2009) (pp. 896-897). Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854) (p. 910). Jessie Pope, “The Call” (1915) (pp. 912-913). Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It” (1988) (pp. 1149-1150).
第 15 週	FINAL EXAMINATION Film Quiz 2. Bring your student I.D. No textbooks and cell phone are allowed.

教科書

The Norton Introduction to Literature. Edited by Kelly J. Mays. Shorter 13th edition. New York and London: Norton, 2019. Plus Supplementary Readings (SR).

Office Hours

地點: Office: HC414 (03-5731792, or campus extension 3-1792)
時間: Office hours: 3:30 PM—5:30 PM, Monday (by appointment)
聯絡方式: Email: limk@nycu.edu.tw Tel: 03-5731792, or campus extension 3-1792