Introduction

Language

• 甲、Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865)
• 乙、Excerpts from:
• • i. Calvin R. Petersen, "Time and Stress," Journal of the History of Ideas, 46:3 (1985), 427-433
  • ii. Daniel Bivona, "Alice the Child-Imperialist and the Games of Wonderland," Nineteenth Century Literature, 41:2 (1986), 143-171
  • iii. Nikolai Firtich, "Worldbackwards," The Slavic and East European Journal, 48:4 (2004), 593-606

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Transformation

• 甲、Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (1915)
• 乙、Excerpts from (1996 Norton Edition of The Metamorphosis, translated and edited by Stanley Corngold)
• • i. Nina Pelikan Straus, "Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis" (1989)
  • ii. Kevin W. Sweney, "Competing Theories of Identity in Kafka's The Metamorphosis" (1990)
  • iii. Mark M. Anderson, "Sliding Down the Evolutionary Ladder? Aesthetic Autonomy in The Metamorphosis" (1992)
  • iv. Michael Rowe, "Metamorphosis: Defending the Human," Literature and Medicine, 21:2 (2002), 264-280

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Midterm Exam

travel & travail

• 甲、Marjane Sartrapi, Persepolis (2003)
• 乙、Excerpts from:
• • i. Gillian Whitlock, "Autographics: The Seeing "I" of the Comics," Modern Fiction Studies 52:4 (2006), 965-979
  • ii. Babak Elahi, "Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Sartrapi's Persepolis," symploke 15:1-2 (2007), 312-325
  • iii. Manuela Constantino, "Popular Comix Heroine Breathing Life into the Writing of History," Canadian Review of American Studies, 38:3 (2008), 429-447
  • iv. Ann Miller, "Marjane Sartrapi's Persepolis: Eluding the Frames," L'Esprit Createur, 51:1 (2011), 38-52
• 丙、顧玉鈴，《我們》(2007)

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Final Exam