文學研究概論
Introduction to Literary Studies
| 節 | 週三 |
|---|---|
2 09:00–09:50 | 文學研究概論 HC401 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
This course aims to equip students with a firm grasp of how to frame fundamental issues in literary studies through close readings of key texts in literary theory. It aims to give students a sense of the genealogical richness of the palimpsest of texts, situations, and events in the past and present that make literary studies an exciting and important cornerstone of the arts. Students will attain a mastery of multiple means of delineating relationships between subjects, objects, and various media of cultural production in historical contexts. Basic terms used in literary analysis will also be reviewed. To facilitate engagement in creative applications of the various philosophers and theorists that form the focus of this course, we will also examine numerous very short literary works, including conventional and experimental poems, flash fiction, and one-act plays. We will also listen to music and view visual and multimedia artwork, including short films, most available on YouTube. Students are encouraged to contribute examples for discussion.
This course is only open to graduate students in our institute. (Exceptions made for ambitious students demonstrating devotion to philosophy or literary theory.)
In addition to actively participating in each class—asking questions and sharing thoughts—students will compose five short exploratory essays and one in-depth longer final research paper on a topic of their choice. More than 10 mins late to class counts as an absence for that day. More than three absences necessitates retaking the course.
In-class active participation: 20% Short Papers (4): 40% (Lowest grade among short papers omitted from calculation of final grade.) Final Paper: 40% Attendence is counted as -2 from final grade for all absences. Excused absences may be made up through extra writing assignments.
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction to literary studies. Overview of course. Review of literary terminology (basics) |
| 第 2 週 | Kant, Burke: the sublime |
| 第 3 週 | T. S. Eliot, Bakhtin, Prague Linguist Circle, Kristeva: intertextuality and related issues |
| 第 4 週 | The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse |
| 第 5 週 | Barthes: structuralism; Stewart: nonsense |
| 第 6 週 | Saussure, Freud, Heidegger, and Derrida: language and positioning |
| 第 7 週 | Debord, Lyotard, and Baudrillard: postmodern de-realization and simulacra |
| 第 8 週 | Lacan and Žižek: the social structuration of what we do, or jouissance |
| 第 9 週 | Badiou: return to an ethics of truths (against postmodernism) |
| 第 10 週 | Hegel and Nietzsche: exploring the dynamics of power. Althusser: ideology as institutional practices |
| 第 11 週 | Bhabha: the proliferation of postcolonial complications all around us |
| 第 12 週 | Deleuze and Guattari: being as becoming and new approaches to ecologies |
| 第 13 週 | Hayles and Braidotti: posthumanism; Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am |
| 第 14 週 | Butler, Halberstam: gender constructs and beyond |
| 第 15 週 | Sedwick, Bersanii, Munoz: queer temporalities: from identity politics to cruising utopias |
| 第 16 週 | Presentations of student papers and discussion |
Course materials consist of texts in pdf files made available on the e3 teaching platform or through links to online resources sent through the e3 announcement system.
- 地點
- HC3-415
- 時間
- Wed 1:00-15:00, by appointment.
- 聯絡方式
- brink@nycu.edu.tw On campus phone: x58115