丁乃非 小說研究
FICTION
STUDIES (EL 3035)
Spring 2005 DING Naifei
Monday 1300-1600 A108
dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw
[subject: ficstud2005]
Office Hours: Monday 1600-1800,
Tuesday 1700-1800
Tentative Schedule:
2/21
Introduction; Seymour
Chatman, pp. 19-22
2/28
HOLIDAY
3/7
Jonathan Culler, 「Narrative」; Charlotte Brontë I-V
(5-44)
3/14
Charlotte Brontë XI-XV (79-130); XVIII-XXII (154-205)
3/21
Charlotte Brontë XXV-XXVII (234-274), XXXII-XXXIV (311-331); Adrienne
Rich; Sandra M. Gilbert
3/28
Charlotte Brontë XXXV-XXXVIII (349-385); Terry Eagleton
4/4
HOLIDAY
4/11
Jonathan Culler, 「Identity」; Jean Rhys (Part One)
4/18
Jean Rhys (Part Two)
4/25
Jean Rhys (Part Three); Gayatri Spivak
5/2
Virginia Woolf (pp. 3-159)
5/9
Virginia Woolf (pp. 160-296)
5/16
Jamaica Kincaid (pp.
3-41)
5/23
Jamaica Kincaid (pp.
43-83)
5/30
Jamaica Kincaid (pp.
85-164)
6/6
HOLIDAY
6/13
PERFORMANCES
6/20
FINAL EXAM
Course description:
This course focuses on four novels, one from the 19thC and three from the
20thC, as well as a selection of theoretical and critical texts. The
readings are organized to facilitate dialogues between different works in
ways useful for an initial probing into one kind of evolution of 「the
modern novel」 in the English language.
The aim of the course is to encourage students to read fiction both
carefully and extensively, while introducing students to selected critical
entries into the study of fiction.
Course
policy: Attendance is mandatory.
Up to three unexcused absences are permitted; a fourth absence will
result in a failing grade. There
will be quizzes on assigned readings, one group performance, and a final
exam. Grades will be
calculated according to:
1.
Quizzes: 30% (「pop」
quizzes, beginning of first hour)
2.
Participation: 10%
3.
Presentation/Performance: 20%
4.
Final Exam: 40%
Required Texts:
1.
Xeroxed materials (Gaoguan Xerox Center)
2.
Seymour Chatman, Story and
Discourse (Cornell, 1978)
3.
Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford, 1997)
4.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1848, Norton)
5.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Bookman Books, 1992)
6.
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton, 1966)
7.
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
(Penguin, 1990)