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 “5chesxm” to join the course channel on Teams

01. Intro. 02. Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” “Analytic of the Sublime”; Friedrich Hölderlin, “The Hall of Life,” “Brevity” ; Giacomo Leopardi, “The Infinite,” “To Himself” 03. 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) 04. Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Notes from Underground” 05. Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” 06. Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”; Guy De Maupassant, “Hautot and His Son” 07. Selections from Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Max Weber 08. Midterm 09. Charles Baudelaire, “To the Reader,” “Correspondences,” “One o’Clock in the Morning,” “Crowds,” “Windows,” “Anywhere out of the World,” “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); Paul Verlaine, “Autumn Song”; Arthur Rimbaud, "The Bridges," "Barbarian” 10. Marcel Proust, “Swann’s Way” 11. Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice” 12. Franz Kafka, “Metamorphosis” 13. Albert Camus, “The Guest”; Isaac Bashevis Singer, “The Spinoza of Market Street” 14. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from “One Hundred Years of Solitude”; 張大春, “將軍碑“ (https://www.haodoo.net/?M=u&P=A450:2&L=book) 15. Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”; Paul Celan, “Fugue of Death” 16. Final

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

Various handouts