98年第1學期-0184 文討：悲劇、概念、創意與批評 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Class reports and discussions	50	Active participation in class is recommended
Mid-term paper	20	This is a short paper based on class reports and discussions
Final Term Paper	30	Fully researched Term Paper

教育目標

This course is designed to offer students a deeper and more balanced view of Tragedy from an understanding of the views offered by philosophers such as Aristotle, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Plays selected for intensive study cover a wide range of tragic foci that include situations in society and involve politics, religion, personality, history, psychology etc.. Students will be able to analyze and criticize literatures that involve any of these situations after gaining knowledge from this course.

課程概述

Tragedy: Concepts, Creativity, Criticism is a seminar for third- and fourth-year students. The course will study the early Greek tragedians, the Greek Sophists and their theories of tragedy, English and Continental tragedians, the European critics and theorists, modern tragedians, and modern concepts of tragedy and criticism. The course will primarily examine the dramatic elements of tragedy through reading various plays. Structural elements such as plot structure, characterization, and dramatic conflict will be analyzed.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：一/1,2[FL214]
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

1: Jean Anouilh. Antigone
2: Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
3: Robert Bolt. A Man for All Seasons.
4: Arthur Miller. The Death of a Salesman.
5: T.S. Eliot. Murder in the Cathedral
6: Aristotle. Ars Poetica.
7: S.H. Butcher. The Poetics of Aristotle.
8: F.L. Lucas. Tragedy.
9: Adams. Critical Theory.
10: David Lodge. Kodern Theory and Criticism.
11: Northrop Frye. Fools of Time (Shakespearean Tragedy).