98年第1學期-0183 文討：大哉女偵探 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Midterm paper	30	5-10 pages (double space)
Final paper	30	5-10 pages (double space)
Participation	20
Oral presentation and turn leading discussion	20

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 detective fiction and its socio-economic background.

課程概述

Sleuths in Skirts: Women Detectives by Women Writers is a seminar for third- and fourth-year students. This course explores the emergence and evolution of the woman detective in popular fiction. It investigates how the portrayal of women detectives differs from their male colleagues. It studies how women writers enrich this literary genre with feminist concerns such as gender equality, domestic violence, child bearing, career building and the definition of femininity in addition to traditional social-economic topics. This course also analyses current trends in detective fiction by women.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：二/3,4[FL002]
修課班級：外文系3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：1.畢業前須修兩門文討 2需填寫申請單

參考書目

Major Texts:

Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep 　（Selections）
Christie, Agatha. The Murder at the Vicarage
Cross, Amanda. “The Baroness” & “Murder without a Text”
Doyle, A. Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes（Selections）
Green, Anna K. A Strange Disappearance
Hammett, Dashiell. The Continental Op stories （Selections）
Paretsky, Sara. Killing Orders
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Murder of Rue Rouge”
Wilson, Barbara. Gaudi Afternoon


References:
Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and
Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
DellaCava, Frances A. and Madeline H. Engel. Sleuths in Skirts: Analysis and Bibliography of Serialized Female Sleuths. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Irons, Glenwood H. Feminism in Women＇s Detective Fiction. Buffalo: University of Toronto, 1995.
Knight, Stephen. Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1980.
Plain, Gill. Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body.
Edinburgh, England: Edinburg University Press, 2001.
Walton, Priscilla L. and Manina Jones. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-boiled Tradition. Berkeley: U of California P, 1999.