2/28/2011

開工大吉:2011年春《文讀》課綱

Critical Approaches to Literature II
Spring 2011
Tuesday, 9:10-12:00 a.m., 文D105
Instructor: Prof. Jen-yi Hsu
Office hours: Friday 2-4p.m., and by appointment (jyhsu@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)
Required Book:
The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 10th Edition)
Course Requirements: Midterm 25%, final exam 25%, presentation 25%, poetry memorization 15 %, and blog assignments 10% (http://literarycollage.blogspot.com/).
** Please be reminded that attendance is crucial and two absences will result in failing this course.
Course Schedule:
Week1: 2/22 Intro
Week2: 3/1 Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll” (p. 652: Vera)
W. D. Snodgrass, “Leaving the Motel” (p. 653)
William Blake, “London” (p. 658: Patty)
Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (p. 660: Una)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (p. 1010: King)
Week3: 3/8 Tomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid” (672: Peace)
Margaret Atwood, “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” (675)
Audre Lorde, “Hanging Fire” (682: Lily)
William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (p. 739: Daphnie)
“This is Just to Say” (p. 740: Daphnie)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” (p. 742: Sherry)
Oscar Wilde, “Symphony in Yellow” (p. 748)
Week4:3/15 John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (p. 1031: Sammi)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (p. 1033: Ethan)
“To Autumn” (p. 1034: Winni)
Week5:3/22 Robert Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (p. 676: Fion)
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” (p. 1009: Vedran)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “When our two souls stand up” (p. 840: Celina)
Christina Rossetti, “In an Artist’s Studio” (840: Yan)
Week6:3/29 Sylvia Plath, “Point Shirley” (p. 716)
“Morning Song” (p. 720: Katherine)
“Lady Lazarus” (p. 930: Judy)
“Daddy” (p. 983: Ashley)
Week7:4/5 (no class)
Week8:4/ 12 Film Screening: Sylvia
Week9:4/ 19 Midterm
Week10:4/ 26 Emily Dickinson, “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” (p. 790: Jojo)
“Because I could not stop for Death” (p. 886: Jim)
“I stepped from Plank to Plank” (p. 887)
“We do no play on Graves” (p. 887)
“The Brain—is wider than the Sky” (p. 888)
“She dealt her pretty words like Blades” (p. 888)
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights” (p. 889: Cherry)
“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” (p. 889: Nick)
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes” (p. 890)

Week11:5/3 John Donne, “The Sun Rising” (p. 648: James)
“The Flea” (p. 712: Edson)
“The Good-Morrow” (p. 719: Jamison)
“Batter my heart, three-personed God” (p. 757: Jenny)
“The Canonization” (p. 757: Ben)
Week12:5/10 John Donne,
“Death, be not proud” (p. 1012: Linda)
“Song” (p.1012: Alice)
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (p. 1013: Andrew)
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (p. 713: Jeffrey)
Andrew Marvell, “On a Drop of Dew” (p. 749: Sammy)
“The Garden” (p.1037: Sai)
Week13:5/17 W. B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (p. 897: Andy)
W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” (p. 901: Tavia)
W. B. Yeats, “Leda and the Swan” (p. 902: Daniel)
W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” (p. 902: Emma)
Week14:5/24 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Tears, Idle Tears” (p. 1044)
“Ulysses” (p. 928)
Elizabeth Bishop, “Exchanging Hats” (p. 692: Clare)
“Sestina” (p. 829: Celia)
Week15:5/31 Sophocles, Antigone (pp. 1490-1523: Maggie, Beatrice, Joanna)
Week16:6/7 finish Sophocles’s Antigone
Week17:6/14 poetry memorization
Week 18: 6/21 Final exam