110年第2學期-0157 歐洲文學：十二至十六世紀 課程資訊

教育目標

■ 課程目標 (Course Objectives) 1. Students will develop language and reading skills leading to a solid foundation for their study of British, American, and other Western Literatures, languages, and cultural media in required and elective courses in the English Majors program. Students will read and analyze those authors and periods which figure prominently in many literature and culture courses in the FLLD. Students will also familiarize themselves with key literary and cultural concepts (the rights of the individual, the social contract, political philosophy, humanist writings, romantic fiction and poetry, women’s rights, confessional literature, romantic lyric poetry, social and political satire, etc.). This literature will be examined for the traces of influence wrought by Europe’s cultural indebtedness to the Renaissance, and the way it extends the logic of that world view into the literature of later periods. The course will promote students’ understanding of the Western literary tradition while contributing to their conceptual and linguistic enrichment. Students will give evidence of mastering these areas on quizzes, tests, and in written work. 2. Gain understanding of the process whereby different aspects of European literature from the Enlightenment and early European Romantic periods have become important influences on world civilization. Students will give evidence of mastering this knowledge on quizzes, tests, and in written work. (to be continued, added under (Learning Activities and Assignments) )

課程概述

This second half of this course continues with the literature of Continental Europe, taking up with the early medieval period and proceeding through the European Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Early Modern Period, on up to New World colonization. The course will emphasize anl approach that is best suited to Chinese students of Western languages and literatures: the religious and secular writers of the Middle Ages, European storytelling and legends, the chivalric tradition, the poetry of the sonnet writers, the ballad culture, the classic works of the Italian and Northern European Renaissance, including both creative and philosophical writings, the essay genre, the book of manners, the mystery play, the allegory, and the satire. All of these works will be explored regarding the evolution of the Indo-European languages; Western concepts of self, other, home, identity, family, nation, state, and justice, divinity, mythology, etc.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-2
上課時間：四/6,7[LAN109]
修課班級：外文系2-4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：學生自行上網選課

參考書目

The Norton Anthology of Western Literature. Vol 1. Ed. Martin Puchner, et. al. 9th
Edition. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.