星期五導生面談(12/3)

這禮拜五下午我們來安排導生面談，時段如下：
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00
有興趣的同學趕快登記，揪團亦可，地點在我研究室 (文A303)。老師會準備每個人兩百元圖書禮券，交換條件是：要準備至少一個問題問老師。

【文讀】writing assignment #3 (deadline: 12/8, 12 p.m.)

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" (1894), Mrs. Mallard received two shocking news within an hour. The first news revived her, while the second news killed her. This famous short story expresses Chopin's dissatisfaction regarding women's roles in marriages and their desire to break free from the patriarchal restriction and oppression. Love, for Mrs. Mallard, is in fact a violence in disguise because it is carried out by "imposing a private will upon a fellow-creature." Nobody understood her; they thought she was all right; they thought her sorrows were ordinary ones. What is even worse is that everybody misunderstood the cause of her death. They believed that she died from the joy of seeing her husband; only we readers know that she died from the grief of losing what she thought she might have had.

If Mrs. Mallard's husband were dead and she had opportunities to realize her dreams, what would her dreams be? Write a creative essay imagining the future of Mrs. Mallard as a widow.

思潮影展2010──台灣有愛‧紀錄片精選展──

時間 12月17日 16:00 - 12月19日 21:00

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地點 花蓮縣文化局圖書館文化電影院（花蓮市文復路6號）

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召集人 空間與文學研究室

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如果你覺得島嶼上充滿營私暴戾，
那是因為你不曉得愛在哪裡──
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如果你覺得故鄉變得愈來愈陌生，
那是因為你不曉得怎麼去愛──

12月17日～12月19日
請你看電影
讓你發現愛


入場方式：開放所有民眾現場免費索票，限索當日場次。場地座位有限（僅50座），不劃座，每人每場限索２張。


播放資訊如下──

12/17（週五）
16:00　開放現場索票
18:00　進場
18:15　開幕式
18:30～20:50　影片《遮蔽的天空》‧紀文章導演座談

12/18（週六）
10:30　開放現場索票
12:45　開放進場
13:00～15:00　影片《T婆工廠》‧陳素香導演座談
15:20～17:20　影片《我愛高跟鞋》‧賀照緹導演座談
18:30～20:50　影片《沉沒之島》‧黃信堯導演座談

12/19（週日）
10:30　開放現場索票
12:45　開放進場
13:00～15:00　影片《天線寶寶之停車暫借問》‧郭明珠導演座談
15:20～17:20　影片《森之歌》‧柯金源導演座談
18:00～20:40　影片《被遺忘的時光》‧楊力州導演座談
20:40～20:50　閉幕式


主辦單位：國立東華大學空間與文學研究室
協辦單位：國立東華大學英美語文學系
補助單位：教育部顧問室
特別感謝：花蓮縣政府文化局

研究室主持人：郭強生（國立東華大學英美語文學系教授）
影展策展人：王君琦（國立東華大學英美語文學系助理教授）

國立東華大學空間與文學研究室聯絡方式──
助理：廖律清
E-Mail：luching@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Tel：0936-177017
Fax：03-8635290
Web：http://www.literatureinspaces.tw/

【文讀】writing assignment #3 (deadline: 12/1, 12 p.m.)

This link can lead you to the audio clip that briefly describes the life and works of Borges. Click "real media" on the right side, listen careful, and write down anything that impresses or inspires you. For example, how fantastic are Borges's concepts of time, reality, and identity? How dos he influence the world and its readers outside Latin America? What are his insights into aspect of human psychology?

【文讀】writing assignment #2 (deadline: 11/18, 12 p.m.)

Choose one from the following questions to write an essay (200-250 words). Cite texts to support your argument.

1) In “The Lady with the Dog,” the characters’ responses to their environment are integral to the action of the story and its effect on the reader. Describe the significance of various “settings” used by Chekhov to symbolize the protagonists’ inner psychology.

2) In “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” why does the spider girl attract more people than the angel?

3) In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” what’s the secret the woman discovers behind the patterns of the wallpaper? Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman make her narrator go crazy at the end of the story?

【比較文學】期中考essay questions

Choose two questions to answer. Allow no less than 2 pages (single-spaced) for each answer. Cite the texts to support your argument.

1. According to Mary Russo, making a spectacle out of oneself appears to be "a specifically feminine danger" (318). How does Cindy Sherman negotiate this "feminine danger" in her bold affirmations of feminine performance, bodily exposure, and gender masquerade? What does the idea of the "grotesque" and its subversive implications have to do with her various boundary transgressions?

2. Compare and contrast the representation of the grotesque in Kafka and Sherwood Anderson.

3. Compare and contrast Kafka's punishment fantasies in "In the Penal Colony" with CJ Chen's aesthetic of horror.

Please print out your essays and drop them in my departmental mailbox BEFORE 5 pm Friday,November 19th. Late papers are not accepted.