西洋文學概論(二)

A survey course of western literature from the Enlightenment to the present. n.b. the course lecture will be delivered in mandarin

1. Students have to apply for an NYCU m365 account to join the course channel on Microsoft Teams. The account application page can be found here: https://it.nycu.edu.tw/it/ch/app/artwebsite/view?module=artwebsite&id=220&serno=40e18628-1dab-411b-8dc0-aab0905d38b2 2. Use the code “8zn54e6” to join the course channel on Teams

01. intro 02. Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?“, on sublime 03. Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” 04. Fyodor Dostoevsky, “White Nights” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36034/pg36034-images.html#Pg1) 05. Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13415/pg13415-images.html#THE_LADY_WITH_THE_DOG), “The Cherry Orchard” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7986/pg7986-images.html#link2H_4_0013) 06. Guy De Maupassant, “Hautot and His Son” (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/guy-de-maupassant/short-fiction/ernest-boyd_storm-jameson_jeffery-e-jeffery_lafcadio-hearn_m-walter-dunne_henry-c-olinger_albert-m-cohn-mcmaster_dora-knowlton-ranous_bigelow-brown-co-inc_francis-steegmuller/text/hautot-and-his-son), “The Horla” (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/guy-de-maupassant/short-fiction/ernest-boyd_storm-jameson_jeffery-e-jeffery_lafcadio-hearn_m-walter-dunne_henry-c-olinger_albert-m-cohn-mcmaster_dora-knowlton-ranous_bigelow-brown-co-inc_francis-steegmuller/text/the-horla) 07. Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, “Memoirs of a Madman” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36238/pg36238-images.html#Page_107); 魯迅, “狂人日記” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25297/pg25297.txt) 08. midterm 09. Henrik Ibsen, “Ghosts” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8121/pg8121-images.html#link2H_4_0002); Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondences” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47032/pg47032-images.html#Page_149), “Windows” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47032/pg47032-images.html#Page_45), “Crowd” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47032/pg47032-images.html#Page_46), “A Hemisphere in a Tress” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47032/pg47032-images.html#Page_69), “Every Man His Chimera” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47032/pg47032-images.html#Page_113) 10. Marcel Proust, “Overture” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7178/pg7178-images.html#link2H_4_0001) 11. Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66073/pg66073-images.html) 12. Franz Kafka, “Metamorphosis” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5200/pg5200-images.html) 13. Albert Camus, “The Guest”; Isaac Bashevis Singer, “The Spinoza of Market Street” 14. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” 15. Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”; Paul Celan, “Fugue of Death” 16. final

In-class oral reports 30% Midterm 30% Final 40%

Various handouts