EL3202 – 國立中央大學英美語文學系 Department of English at NCU

開課單位	英美語文學系		課　號	EL3202
授課教師	英文系教師		學分數	3
課程名稱(中文)	英語系研究
課程名稱(英文)	English Studies II
上課時間
課程基本資料	□必修　　■選修	□全學年　　■半學年
特殊條件	英語授課 ■是(□全英語 ■部份英語) □否	接受社會人士修課 □是 ■否		接受校際學生修課 □是 ■否
分發條件 (授課對象限制條件說明、先修及擋修課程、人數限制…等)	英文系二年級優先，其他年級次之。人數限制50人
密碼卡	□不使用 ■部份使用(條件外加選用) □全部使用(加、退選皆須使用)
辦公時間
課程目標： This course aims to introduce students to the formation of modernity in the British context since the eighteenth century, roughly coeval with the rise of the middle class. We will examine a wide variety of literary and cultural texts, novels in particular, seeing them as exemplars that both reflect and reinforce middle-class values in the nineteenth century and beyond. At times they help shape ostensibly progressive notions of, say, romantic individualism or female autonomy, whereas at other times they may end up colluding with repressive (sexual) mores or the hegemonic project of empire-building. Adopting a chronological order, we will go over the romantic, Victorian, as well as modernist periods and in each of these periods, we will tease out how each writer copes with or rebels against these values. Special emphasis will be placed on the way aesthetic forms are treated as practical means to carry out an ethical intention that calls for, say, social reform, critiques of conventional morality, or diverse modes of sympathy. By closely engaging with the ambivalence or conflicts surrounding these aesthetic/ethical projects, students are expected to develop a more critical understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of English (literary) culture in the past two centuries or, more broadly, Western modernity as a whole. Part of this course also aims to introduce the discussion of Anglophone world literatures in the twentieth century (with their Englishes, modernities, and competing notions of the “national”) amidst the contemporary “canon” vs. “crisis” debates.
授課內容： W1 Introduction Part I: The Romantic Period W2 Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel (Excerpt); Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Keywords: Gothic, gender and middle-class values, the French Revolution W3 Lord Byron, Manfred; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Excerpt); Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Keywords: the romantic hero, first-person narration, domesticity W4 Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Keyword: age of sensibility, the gendering of middle-class values W5 Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Keyword: the free indirect discourse, the marriage plot Part II: The Victorian Period W 6 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Excerpt) Keywords: empire-building; the gendering of middle-class values revisited W7 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Excerpt) Keywords: the Victorian gentleman, Bildungsroman and class W8 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Excerpt) Keywords: futurity and narrative, post-colonial rewritings Mid-Term Paper Due W9 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Keywords: art for art’s sake, epigrams, camp, Victorian middle-class respectability Part III: The Modernist Period W10 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Keywords: colonialism, modernist ambiguity of language W11 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Keywords: The empire writes back W12 E. M. Forster, A Passage to India Keywords: limitations of liberalist sympathy, Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism, intersectionality W13 James Joyce, “The Dead” Keywords: Irish hospitality/nationalism, epiphany, male egotism revisited, modernist narratorial sympathy W14 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Keywords: stream of consciousness as a mode of rebellion against bourgeois norms, melancholia, modernist narratorial sympathy revisited W15 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Keywords: Modernism and decolonization W16 Conclusion W17 Arranged Individual Meetings W18 Arranged Individual Meetings Final Take-Home Exam Due
教科書/參考書： Stephen Greenblatt, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 2, 10^th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations. London: Chapman & Hall, 1861. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books, 2006. Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart. Portsmouth, NH: William Heinemann Ltd., 1958. Edward Said. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1994. Elizabeth A. Bohls. Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. E. M. Forster. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. James Joyce. “The Dead”, Dubliners. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1941. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. London: Penguin Books, 1995. Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Penguin Books, 2000. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. New York and Toronto: Random House, 1999. Mary Ellis Gibson, ed. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. New York: Dover Publications, 1994. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1996. Mashrur Shahid Hossain, Towards Critical–Affective Pedagogy: Anglophone literatures in Bangladeshi English language classrooms. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Michael A. Bucknor, Alison Donnell, eds. The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. New York and London: Routledge, 2011. Steve Clark and David Worrall, eds. Blake, Nation and Empire. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (Autumn 1985): 243-261. Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2009. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2001. George Gordon Byron. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem. Hamburg: tredition GmbH, 2013. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest. New York: Avon Books, 1976. Vascant Kaiwar, ed. Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. Hamburg: Albatross Publishers, 2017. William Keach, Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
授課方式：　■講授　■研討（分組討論）　□實習/實驗　□個別指導　□其他
評量配分比重： This course is mainly conducted in lectures. Occasionally questions on the readings will be assigned and students will form groups to discuss and present their findings. Each group, moreover, needs to present on one of the keywords associated with a given writer. Since this is a reading intensive course, students are required to finish their readings before class. Students also need to turn in a mid-term paper (4-5 pages long) and finish a final take-home exam. Those who wish to get bonus points may choose to submit an extra short paper of 5-8 pages long, due a week after the exam. Attendance and Participation 10% Group presentations 15% Mid-Term Paper 25% Final Take-Home Exam 50%
課程所屬學制：　 ■學士班　　□碩士班　　□博士班　　□碩博同修
課程領域：文學與文化研究
跨系課程領域：(不需填寫)

本課程培養學生具備核心能力之強度指數：

強度指數系所核心能力	1 非常低	2 低	3 普通	4 高	5 非常高	評量方式
高級英文閱讀解析與寫作論述 advanced English critical reading and analytical writing				V		■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) ■專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
文學文化知識素養 knowledge of literatures and cultures					V	■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) ■專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
跨領域文本分析 interdisciplinary textual analysis				V		■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) ■專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
文獻蒐集整理與判讀 literature search， synthesis， and critical analysis				V		■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) ■專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
人文思維與社會關懷 humanities visions and social intervention					V	■紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) ■口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) ■專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ■出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)