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 NYCU m365 account application page is located at https://it.nycu.edu.tw/it/ch/app/artwebsite/view?module=artwebsite&id=220&serno=40e18628-1dab-411b-8dc0-aab0905d38b2 2. Use the code “55ixvfb” to join the course channel on Teams.

01. Intro. 02. Immanuel Kant, (1) “What is Enlightenment?,” (2) “Analytic of the Sublime”; (3) Continental Romantic Lyrics (Friedrich Hölderlin, “The Half of Life,” “Brevity” ; Giacomo Leopardi, “The Infinite,” “To Himself”) 03. Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, (1) “Memoirs of a Madman” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36238/pg36238-images.html#Page_107), (2) “The Mantle” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36238/pg36238-images.html#Page_19); (3) 魯迅, “狂人日記” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25297/pg25297.txt) 04. Fyodor Dostoevsky, (1) “Notes from Underground”; (2) Vsevolod M. Garshin “The Signal” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437-images.html#link2H_4_0010) 05. Leo Tolstoy, (1) “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”; (2) Leonid Andreyev, “Lazarus” (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13437/pg13437-images.html#link2H_4_0021) 06. Anton Chekhov, (1) “The Lady with the Dog”; Guy De Maupassant, (2) “Hautot and His Son,” (3) “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. Selections from (1) Karl Marx, (2) Friedrich Nietzsche, and (3) Sigmund Freud 08. Midterm 09. (1) Charles Baudelaire, Selections (“To the Reader,” “Correspondences,” “One o’Clock in the Morning,” “Crowds,” “Windows,” “Anywhere out of the World,” “A Hemisphere in a Tress”, “Every Man His Chimera”); (2) Paul Verlaine, “Autumn Song”; (3) Arthur Rimbaud, "The Bridges," "Barbarian” 10. Marcel Proust, “Swann’s Way” 11. Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice” 12. Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” 13. (1) Albert Camus, “The Guest,” (2) Excerpts from “The Plague” 14. (1) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from “One Hundred Years of Solitude”; (2) 張大春, “將軍碑“ 15. (1) Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”; (2) Paul Celan, “Fugue of Death”; (3) Isaac Bashevis Singer, “The Spinoza of Market Street” 16. Final

in-class oral report 50% mid-term + final exam 50%

Various handouts