102年第1學期-0177 文學理論 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Quizzes	10	Written to engage with the chapter readings and/or handouts
essays, short	10	response to an issue or topic
essays, longer	25	Research project
presentation	10	Based on research project
Mid Term	20
Final Exam	25

教育目標

(Course Objectives) 1. Learn and master the relevant language and terms used in literary criticism and theory to interpret and advance particular understandings of literary works. They will demonstrate evidence of this on tests, and in written work, as well as in discussions, daily work and in presentations. 2. Comprehend the reasons that certain critical and theoretical methods were developed in response to various social forces, changes and historical conditions present in Western societies, and also be able to relate these methods to particular rhetorical objectives relative to these periods and issues. They will demonstrate evidence of this on tests, and in written work, as well as in discussions, daily work and in presentations.

課程概述

Literary Theory and Criticism is an elective for third- and fourth-year students. How does literature expose various ways of thinking about social and material reality? This question has been around for a very long time, and it has given rise to numerous responses. In this course, students will engage with this question as foundational to the discipline and practice of literary criticism and theory, in order to explore and situate the fact that we are always already doing theory any time we suggest that a work of literature means something. This course will introduce the general concepts of contemporary literary criticism and theory from a historical perspective, beginning with selected writings from the Romantic period, then moving to New Criticism, and on to the concepts of Formalism, Marxist criticism, Structuralism, Semiotics, Post-Structuralism, New Historicism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Eco-Criticism. Students will learn to perform critical readings of selected texts by applying these methods, while gaining insight into the historical and cultural contexts that contributed to the development of these critical methodologies, and their rhetorical objectives. Emphasis will be placed on the mastery of formal terminology and critical practices related to performing theoretical readings and analyses of texts.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：一/6,7[LAN015-1 ]
修課班級：外文系3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：同學直接上網加選

參考書目

Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. 3rd ed.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.