Fall 2010 EL2019
representation & family
DING Naifei
Friday 1300-1600, C2-114
Office: A204 x33230
dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw; subject heading: EL2019+yourname
Course Description:
How is literature a form of representation? How might some literary works reflect upon forms and practices of representation? This course will serve as an introduction to representation and literary forms, and how these affirm and interrogate family.
Class schedule:
| 9.17 |
Introduction |
| 9.24 |
Stuart Hall video lecture 1 - representation |
| 10.1 |
Stuart Hall video lecture 2 - representation |
| 10.8 |
Kafka, Metamorphosis |
| 10.15 |
Kafka, Metamorphosis |
| 10.22 |
Nina Pelikan Straus, Eric Santner (in Norton Critical Edition) |
| 10.29 |
NO CLASS |
| 11.5 |
group presentations 1 |
| 11.12 |
Midterm |
| 11.19 |
Bechdel, Fun Home |
| 11.26 |
Bechdel, Fun Home |
| 12.3 |
日日春－演講 |
| 12.10 |
group presentations 2 |
| 12.17 |
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy |
| 12.24 |
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy |
| 12.31 |
顧玉玲，《我們》（印刻出版，2008） |
| 1.6 |
group presentations 3 |
| 1.13 |
Final Exam |
Requirements:
Pop quizzes 25%
oral presentations 20%
midterm exam 25%; final exam 30%
Texts:
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1914); Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1990); Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006); 顧玉玲，《我們》（2008）。
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