114年第1學期-5089 美國文學與電影中的空間場景 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
two journal/ response papers	30
student lead discussions and presentations	30
Research Paper	30
presentation on final research paper	10

教育目標

This course will take these various theories on spatiality and apply it to American literature and film. The United States is a huge country with an enormous variety of spaces and places with different cultural beliefs, ideologies, and customs. The literature and films produced about these American spaces can be studied in terms of the novel/film characters who pass through or experience these places in affective ways, all which depends on their own identities, lived experiences, and desires. The MA seminar will alternate between presentations on spatiality and the various histories and ideologies of the chosen American spaces and student-led discussions using literature and film case studies related to the aforementioned American space groupings.

課程概述

The emergence of space as a key concept in literary and cultural studies came about in the latter half of the twentieth century due to the rise in postmodern thought. Frederic Jameson’s 1984 article “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” asserted that in the twentieth century “our daily life, our psychic experiences, our cultural languages are dominated by categories of space rather than categories of time,” thus directly acknowledging a spatial turn that attempts to understand life as situated in a mobile array of social and spatial relations. However, culturally, academics often attempt to distinguish place from space in terms of presence versus absence, arguing the former is more focused on human experience, desire, and identity. In other words, place requires a physical presence. This course will take these various theories on spatiality and apply it to American literature and film. The United States is a huge country with an enormous variety of spaces and places with different cultural beliefs, ideologies, and customs. The literature and films produced about these American spaces can be studied in terms of the novel/film characters who pass through or experience these places in affective ways, all which depends on their own identities, lived experiences, and desires. The MA seminar will look at diverse American spaces that are common to American literature and film, namely, the American city, the American suburb, the American South, the American West, and finally the American road novel/film. The course will also discuss in detail the relative theories on space which students can apply to the chosen course texts. These include the social construction of space; embodied space; language, discourse and space; and emotion, affect, and space. The MA seminar will alternate between presentations on spatiality and the various histories and ideologies of the chosen American spaces and student-led discussions using literature and film case studies rela

基本資料

選修課，學分數：3-0
上課時間：四/2,3,4[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

Cole, Teju. Open City. Random House, 2012.
Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road. Vintage, 2000.
Portis, Charles. True Grit. Overlook Press, 2010.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Penguin, 1999.
Mississippi Burning (1987). Dir. Alan Parker.
Unforgiven (1992). Dir. Clint Eastwood.
Paris, Texas (1984). Dir. Wim Wenders.