2015 Spring EL3069

World Literature - Home and/as the World

DING Naifei

Tuesday 1400-1700 , A108

dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw


Office hours: Thursday 1300-1500 & by appt., A204


Class schedule:

02.24

Introduction

03.03

3.03 Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Acts One & Two; Fredric Jameson (1986) & Madhava Prasad (1992) (excerpts)

03.10
  • Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Act Three
  • "The Doll House Backlash: Criticism, Feminism, and Ibsen," Joan Templeton, 104 [1989]: 28-40
  • “Ibsen's Nora,” Marvin Rosenberg and Joan Templeton, PMLA, Vol. 104, No. 5 (Oct., 1989), pp. 894-896
03.17

Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Chapters 1-14); Gayle Rubin (1984) “Thinking Sex” (excerpts)

03.24
  • Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Chapters 15-26)
  • Elyssa Warkentin, “Building Our Own Homes: Frustrated Stereotyping in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues” American@Vol. II Issue 1, (http://www.uhu.es/hum676/revista/warkentin.pdf)
03.31

PRESENTATIONS

04.07

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (chapters 1-4)

04.14

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (chapters 5-7)

“Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” Ann Cvecktovich, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 36, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 111-128 (Article)

“Closing the Gap in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home,” Jennifer Lemberg, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 36, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 129-140

04.21

PRESENTATIONS

04.28

Nadine Gordimer, July’s People (pp. 1-101)

05.05

Nadine Gordimer, July’s People (pp. 102-160)

Ali Eritouni (2006), “Apartheid Inequality and PostApartheid Utopia in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People”

Nasser Mufti (2013), “Reading the Interregnum: Anachronisms in Gordimer’s July’s People”

05.12

PRESENTATIONS

05.19

Talk by Prof. Yau Ching accompanied by screening of film《雷雨》

Thunderstorm (1961, Zhu Shilin 朱石麟) and excerpts from 《雷雨》

Thunderstorm (1957, Ng Wui 吳回) and 《喜劇之王》 King of Comedy (1999, Stephen Chow 周星馳)

〈娜拉走後怎樣〉,魯迅(一九二三年十二月二十六日在北京女子高等師範學校文藝會講稿)(http://www.b111.net/xiandai/luxun/fen/017.htm

05.26

Cao Yu’s The Thunderstorm (Prologue and First Act, trans. Genevieve Andreas)

〈關於曹禺的《雷雨》〉,佐籐一郎(日),《海外學者論曹禺》,田本相、鄒紅主編,廣西師範大學出版社,13-25頁

〈新舊版《雷雨》的比較研究〉,大芝孝(日),《海外學者論曹禺》,田本相、鄒紅主編,廣西師範大學出版社,91-100頁

06.02

PRESENTATIONS

06.09

WRAPUP

06.16

FINAL EXAM



Evaluation:

Pop quizzes (30%)

Group oral presentations (30%)

Final exam (40%)



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