102年第1學期-0187 文討：五位英國女偵探作家 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Midterm	30
final	40
Class Performance	30

教育目標

1. To add to the pleasure of reading 2. To utilize and sharpen critical skills acquired in other literature courses 3. To gain an in-depth understanding of a popular literary genre through analytical and critical study 4. To better understand the interplay between mystery genre and its socio-economic background.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：二/8,9[LAN011]
修課班級：外文系3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：畢業前須修兩門文討

參考書目

Texts:
Allingham, Margery. The Tiger in the Smoke (1952).
Christie, Agatha. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930).
James, P. D. Shroud for a Nightingale (1971).
Rendell, Ruth. Death Notes (1981)
Sayers, Dorothy L. Whose Body? (1923).

References:
Bargainnier, Earl F. 10 Women of Mystery. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling
Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
Knight, Stephen. Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1980.
Kungl, Carla T. Creating the Fictional Female Detective: The Sleuth Heroines of
British Women Writers, 1890-1940. NC: McFarland, 2006.
James, P. D. Talking about Detective Fiction NY: Knopf, 2009.
Plain, Gill. Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body.
Edinburgh, England: Edinburg University Press, 2001.