國立中興大學教學大綱
課程名稱 (中) 世界文學與理論(8008)
(Eng.) World Literature and Theories of the World
開課單位 跨文化學程
課程類別 選修 學分 3 授課教師 林松輝 等
選課單位 跨文化學程 / 博士班 授課使用語言 英文 英文/EMI Y 開課學期 1132
課程簡述 This class introduces students to the concept of world literature. Each week we will read and discuss theories of the world, and analyze a piece of literature related to the topic of the week. Our main focus this semester is the idea of visibility in the world. Among the issues we will discuss include the conditions of visibility for literary production, center and peripheral relations, Sinophone and postcolonial visibility, as well as the concept of planetarity.
先修課程名稱
課程含自主學習 Y
課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標 核心能力 配比(%) 教學方法 評量方法
1. Learn theoretical tools and frameworks useful for the study of world literature.
2. Practice close reading of literary and cultural texts.
3. Practice academic writing.
習作
討論
講授
出席狀況
口頭報告
作業
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共18週)
週次 授課內容
第1週 2/17 Introduction
第2週 2/24 World literature and Europe: David Damrosch, “What is World Literature?”
Examples from Damrosch, Asymptote Journal
第3週 3/3 Material Conditions for the Production of Literature:
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1928), Chapters 1-3
第4週 3/10 Making Visible (1): Rebecca Solnit, “Diving Into the Wreck” and “Audibility, Credibility, Consequence”, from Recollections of My Nonexistence (2020)
第5週 3/17 Making Visible (2): Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave”, from On Photography (1990), and “Notes on ‘Camp’”, from Against Interpretation (1982)
第6週 3/24 Making Visible (3): Excerpts from Annie Ernaux, Exteriors (1993/2021), and Lou Stoppard, “Writing Images”, from Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography (2024)
第7週 3/31 Midterm Break

第8週 4/7 Becoming Nobel Laureates: (a) Annie Ernaux Nobel Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2022/ernaux/lecture/; (b) Han Kang Nobel Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/lecture/
第9週 4/14 Moving to the Center: Pascale Casanova
VS. Naipaul, Two Worlds
第10週 4/21 The Nation and the World: Franco Moretti, “Conjectures on World Literature”; Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China
第11週 4/28 Postcolonial Worlds: What is a World? Introduction, Pheng Cheah; V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival
第12週 5/5 The Visible “Chinese”: Chiu Kui-fen; Shih Shu-Mei; Ng Kim Chew, Fish Bones

第13週 5/12 Peripheral Worldings: Tee Kim Tong; Chan Cheow-Thia, Malaysian Crossings Chapter 1; Han Suyin, And the Rain My Drink
第14週 5/19 Why not the Planet? : Gayatri Spivak, “Planetarity”; Wu Ming Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
第15週 5/26 Presentations
第16週 6/2 Final papers due
第17週 6/9 Self-directed learning.
第18週 6/16 Self-directed learning.
學習評量方式
Attendance, participation, and written responses to readings (30%)
Attendance and participation = 15%. Posts on iLearning = 15%.

Oral presentation (15 minutes) (30%).

Write-up of oral presentation (1000 words) (10%).

Final paper (2000 words) (30%).
教科書&參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
PDFs of readings.
課程教材(教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址)
iLearning.
課程輔導時間
By appointment.
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