Fall 2012 EL2019

Introduction to Literature

DING Naifei

Monday 0900-1200, A108

Office hours: Monday 1-2 and Wednesday 11-1

dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw



Class schedule:

09.17

Introduction
I
09.24

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1865)
10.01

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1865)
10.08

Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
10.15

group presentations

  • A. Reviews of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (Philip French, Kevin Slaten)
  • B. (Excerpts from) Daniel Bivona, "Alice the Child-Imperialist and the Games of Wonderland," Nineteenth Century Literature, 41:2 (1986), 143-171
II
10.22

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (1915) (1996 Norton Edition)
10.29

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (1915)
11.05

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (1915)
11.12

group presentations

  • A. Nina Pelikan Straus, "Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis" (1989)
  • B. Kevin W. Sweney, "Competing Theories of Identity in Kafka's The Metamorphosis" (1990)
11.19

Midterm Exam
III
11.26

Marjane Sartrapi, Persepolis (2003)

  • A. Babak Elahi, "Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Sartrapi's Persepolis," symploke 15:1-2 (2007), 312-325
  • B. Manuela Constantino, "Popular Comix Heroine Breathing Life into the Writing of History," Canadian Review of American Studies, 38:3 (2008), 429-447
12.03
12.10

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006)

  • A. Ann E. Moore, "The Father, the Daughter," The Women's Review of Books, 24:1 (2007), pp. 3-4
  • B. Hilary Chute, "An Interview with Alison Bechdel," Modern Fiction Studies 52:4, Winter 2006, 1004-1013
  • C. Robyn Warhol, "The Space Between: A Narrative Approach to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home," College Literature 38:3, Summer 2011, pp. 1-20
12.17
12.24

顧玉鈴，《我們》(2007)

  • A. 吳永毅，＜無HOME可歸：公私反轉與外籍家勞所受之時空排斥的個案研究＞，台灣社會研究期刊，66期
  • B. Documentary: Lesbian Factory (Susan Chen, 2010)
12.31
01.07
01.14

Final Exam


Work:

Pop quizzes 20%

Group presentations 20%

Midterm Exam 30%

Final Exam 30%