111年第2學期-0138 美國文學（二） 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Midterm	40	Exam
Final	40	Exam
Class participation	10	Discussion, reports, and active participation
Short papers and reports	10	Brief response papers to weekly readings and background

教育目標

-- to survey American literature, 1776-1877 (Fall semester); -- to survey American literature, 1877-postwar (Spring semester); -- to broaden our views of American society and civilization-- fiction, poetry, essays, 1776-1877 (Fall semster); -- fiction, poetry, essays, and drama, 1877-postwar (Spring semester); -- background research and reports on American society and history -- weekly lectures -- student reports -- in-class discussion -- extended discussion on facebook study group

課程概述

American Literature I and II introduce a historical overview of American literature and culture engaging the significant writers of the colonial, revolutionary, Romantic and early Realist periods. Readings will focus on the particular ways that American English is presented in various literary genres, including fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, essays, speeches and autobiography. The course will also include a more formal analysis of literary terms, their relation to the text, and their specific use in literary analysis. Emphasized will be the ways that literature is both imaginative and rhetorical, and therefore opens multiple fields of possible knowledge and meaning, always open to interpretation. In view of this general approach, the readings are designed to link text and context, thereby encouraging students to appreciate the matrix of culture, historical events and their social settings.

基本資料

必修課，學分數：0-3
上課時間：三/7[A104] 一/6,7[LAN011]
修課班級：外文系3
修課年級：3年級以上
選課備註：英國文學（一）（二）、英國文學（三）（四）及美國文學（一）（二）任選兩組列入12必修學分，超出之學分納入系內選修學分

參考書目

American Voices: An Anthology of American Writings, 1865-today.