文學作品讀法
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助教: 陳緯晉 ,
基本資訊
課程代碼
1520
課程名稱
文學作品讀法
學分
2
學期
1102
修課人數
60 人
老師
助教
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Instructor: 朱崇儀 Chung-yi Chu (cychu@nchu.edu.tw; tel.: (O) 22840322-1029)

Instructor’s office & office hours: 人文大樓1029; Mon. 15:00-17:00 p.m. or by appointment.

 

課程說明
課程簡介
Help students to recognize that English is not just a useful tool for career advancement, but also a way to get in touch with a different kind of thinking.
課程大綱

2/14      Ch. 8    Introduction to poetry (110/1 final review)  Wordsworth, “[I wandered lonely as a cloud]”; Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”; Dickinson, “[The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean]”

2/21    Ch. 9       “Voice” or “persona” of the speaker  Browning, “My Last Duchess” (590; 1103); Brooks, “We Real Cool” (438; 745); Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” (589; 1025)

2/28    Holiday

3/07      Ch. 10 Situation and Setting  Pastan, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” (615; 762); Donne, “The Flea” (454: 764); Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (455; 764)

3/14       Ch. 11   Theme and Tone  Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (465; 797); Auden, “[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]” (469; 802);  Dickinson, “[My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—]” (596; 989)

3/21       Ch. 12  Language (diction and order)  Olds, “Sex without Love” (481; 827); Blake, “London” (482; 801); Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” (482; 828)

3/28       Quiz 2;  Ch. 13       Imagery and figures of speech  Pastan, “Marks” (491; 838); Dickinson, “[Because I could not stop for Death—]” (492; 839);

4/04       Holiday

4/11       Shakespeare, “[Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]” (498; 844); Ch. 14 Symbol  Blake, “The Sick Rose” (508; 853) ;

4/18        Mid-term

4/25        Frost, “The    Road   Not Taken” (511; 856); Nemerov, “The Vacuum”                 (512; 857)

5/02     Ch. 15 Sounds (rhyme, meter, etc.)  Pope, from The Rape of the Lock (520; 866);  Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (531; 878);  Ch. 16  Internal structure  Mora, “Sonrisas” (536; 897); Heaney, “Punishment” (539; 900); Olds, “The Victims” (543; 904)

5/09     Online Ch. 17   External Form  Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (559; 922); Bishop, “Sestina” (561; 925); Cummings, “[l(a]” (563; 926)

5/16       Quiz 3; Online Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"; “[Not marble, nor the gilded monuments]” (569; 934); Basho, “[A village without bells—] (588; 946); Pound, “In the Station of the Metro” (623; 947)

5/23       Introduction to Drama; Trifles (652; 1155)    

5/30       Trifles

6/06      

 

6/13       Final

(The first page number indicates its location in the portable 13th edition. The second one indicates its location in the shorter 12th edition.) 

  
教科書

The Norton Introduction to Literature (the portable 13th edition). Ed. Kelly J. Mays. New York: W.W. Norton, 2019. Please also check https://digital.wwnorton.com/litweb for further practice.

成績說明
  1. Mid-term 35% + final 30% (choice questions concerning textual details and basic literary terms, essay questions).
  2. Quizzes 20%.
  3. Attendance (3 absences max., with proper reasons) and performance 15%
  4. If you want to convert your final grade to a letter grade, the following is the conversion chart American Universities usually adopt: A= over 90, A- = 85-89, B+ = 80-84, B = 75-79, B- = 70-74, C = below 70, D below 65, F = fail below 60.

 

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