102年第2學期-5126 美國南部當代文學 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
5 Response papers (3 pages each):	50
1 short paper on a work of Southern literature not read in class	20
2 ten minute oral presentation	20
Class participation	10

教育目標

By the end of the course, students should have achieved the following objectives: 1. Experienced a close reading of work by four important Southern writers. 2. Gained a stronger grasp of the concepts and vocabulary used to discuss literature in the English-speaking world. 3. Gained familiarity with the social and historical context of Modern Southern literature. 4. Become familiar with Southern literature’s key themes and aesthetic concerns. 5. Gained a clear picture of how Southern literature fits into the larger map of Modern American writing.

課程概述

In this course we will read a number of key figures in modern American Southern literature, with an emphasis on the range and diversity of Southern writing in a variety of genres: the novel, the short story, memoir and drama. The writers included are African-American and white; male and female; gay and straight; middle-class and poor; rural and urban. They draw on the so-called Southern gothic legacy of Faulkner (Williams and McCullers), on American realism (Wright) and on the lyrical and imagistic (Welty). All of them have had a profound impact on the course of American literature as a whole.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-3
上課時間：二/2,3,4[LAN212-2]
修課班級：外文碩1
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：

參考書目

Richard Wright, Black Boy (memoir)
Tennessee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (drama)
Carson McCullers, A Member of the Wedding (novel)
Eudora Welty, (selected short stories)
Plus supplementary materials (short stories, criticism, biography, memoir, history) posted on Moodle