98年第1學期-0161 小說選讀 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Class reports and discussions	50	Active participation in class is recommended
Mid-term paper	21	This is a short paper based on class reports and discussions
Final Term Paper	30	Fully researched Term Paper

教育目標

This course is designed to offer students a deeper and more balanced view of Fiction writing from an understanding of the views offered by different writers at different times Books selected for intensive study cover a wide range of development that include situations in society and involve politics, religion, personality, history, psychology etc.. Students will be able to analyze and criticize literatures that involve any of these situations after gaining knowledge from this course.

課程概述

Selected Fiction is an elective for second-year students and above. This course builds on Introduction in Literature 1 (fiction). This course will take into account several aspects of Narrative Fiction Studies and story telling by way of major writers (in English) over the past two centuries, including: 1: Narrative – the story itself and History of the novel 2: Narration – how the story is told 3: Narrator – the story teller 4: Narratology – the art of story telling. 5: Criticism - the different genres of fiction writing and criticism Students will first examine narrative elements of fiction—the story itself—and will examine such structural elements as characterization, plot structures (i.e. linear, episodic, etc.) and dramatic conflict. In addition students will explore a major school of critical thought aligned to the assigned reading such as selections from Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forester. Next, students will explore aspects of fictional narration and narrator and study voice, tone, narrator reliability, denouement and the sense of an ending. Finally, narratology will be investigated in relation to what students have read up to this point.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：二/1,2[FL001]
修課班級：外文系2,3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：

參考書目

1: Erich Segal. Love Story.
2: Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha.
3: E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.
4: E.M Forster. Aspects of the Novel.
5: Vladimir Nabakov. Lectures on Literature.
6: Walter Allen. The English Novel.
7: Adams. Critical Theory Since Plato.
8: David Lodge. Modern Theory and Criticism.
9: Northrop Frye. Anatomy of Criticism