111年第2學期-5090 過去/現在/未來：兒童與青少年敘事中的時間性 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Attendance and Participation	10
Participating in class discussions	10
Research Paper	20
Oral Presentation of Research Paper	20
Reading Journals	20
Oral Presentations on Texts	20

教育目標

This course will discuss how time is presented in fiction and non-fiction narratives for children and young adults. The course will cover books that deal with the past, with the present, and with the future. The course is divided into several parts based on narratives that approach time in different ways, including non-fiction, historical fiction, fictional histories, time slip narratives (including time travel into the past and into the future), representations of the past in the present, realistic fiction of the present, Science Fiction, time fantasies, and counterfactual historical narratives. The texts and narratives read will be questioned in various ways. The ideological framework of the texts will be considered since texts dealing with other time periods are particularly fruitful for analysing differences in attitudes and for making ideological bias more obvious. Furthermore, the issue of authenticity and accuracy in presenting the past and the present will be considered and the tension between fact and fiction will be studied. Since children and young adult narratives usually have an educational objective the texts will further be studied for their didactic goals, such as offering up stories of the past as a warning for the present or projecting contemporary concerns into the future. Since entertainment is also a major feature of children’s literature, the texts will be considered from that perspective as well. Narratives for children and young adults focusing on time are also literature and the tension between the aesthetic and informational functions of literature will be considered. Different formats, such as picture books, graphic novels, children’s novels, young adult novels, poetry, drama, and film, will be selected.

課程概述

This course will discuss how time is presented in fiction and non-fiction narratives for children and young adults. The course will cover books that deal with the past, with the present, and with the future. The course is divided into several parts based on narratives that approach time in different ways, including non-fiction, historical fiction, fictional histories, time slip narratives (including time travel into the past and into the future), representations of the past in the present, realistic fiction of the present, Science Fiction, time fantasies, and counterfactual historical narratives. The texts and narratives read will be questioned in various ways. The ideological framework of the texts will be considered since texts dealing with other time periods are particularly fruitful for analysing differences in attitudes and for making ideological bias more obvious. Furthermore, the issue of authenticity and accuracy in presenting the past and the present will be considered and the tension between fact and fiction will be studied. Since children and young adult narratives usually have an educational objective the texts will further be studied for their didactic goals, such as offering up stories of the past as a warning for the present or projecting contemporary concerns into the future. Since entertainment is also a major feature of children’s literature, the texts will be considered from that perspective as well. Narratives for children and young adults focusing on time are also literature and the tension between the aesthetic and informational functions of literature will be considered. Different formats, such as picture books, graphic novels, children’s novels, young adult novels, poetry, drama, and film, will be selected.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-3
上課時間：四/6,7,8[LAN212-2]
修課班級：外文碩1,2
修課年級：1年級以上
選課備註：英美文學組

參考書目

COURSE MATERIALS:
A number of works will be chosen as primary texts, but additional texts by these authors will be listed and students are encouraged to read more than the required texts. A set of secondary materials will be collected by the teacher and students will be provided with the required reading materials throughout the semester.

Primary Sources:
Jamila Gavin Coram Boy (2000)
Noel Streatfield Ballet Shoes (1936)
Laurie Halse Andersen Chains (2010)
David Almond Kit’s Wilderness (1999)
Penelope Lively The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973)
Penelope Lively A Stitch in Time (1976)
Lucy M. Boston The Children of Green Knowe and The River at Green Knowe (1954; 1959)
Philippa Pearce Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)
Berlie Doherty Children of Winter (1985)
Sophie Kirtley The Wild Way Home (2020)
Eoin Colfer The Reluctant Assassin WARP 1 (2013)
Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008)
Diana Wynne Jones The Homeward Bounders (1981)
Philip Pullman Northern Lights (1995)