國立中興大學教學大綱
課程名稱 (中) 小說導讀(3062)
(Eng.) Introduction to Fiction
開課單位 外文系
課程類別 選修 學分 3 授課教師 鄭朱雀
選課單位 外文系 / 學士班 授課使用語言 英文 英文/EMI Y 開課學期 1101
課程簡述 This course equips undergraduates with the terms and tactics to understand forms and contents of fiction so that they are able to express their thoughts fluently both in spoken and written forms. They, too, learn the rules of academic writing so as to prepare themselves for advanced studies.
先修課程名稱
課程含自主學習 N
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
The course aims to strengthen students’ speaking and writing abilities in articulating their views of literary texts. They will learn the tactics of essay writing and paper delivering for formal occasions such as conferences and seminars.Its ultimate goal is to prepare students for advanced literary studies, in particular the genre of fiction.
討論
其他
講授
專題探討/製作
出席狀況
口頭報告
作業
書面報告
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 Week-1 ((9/20)
Extended Holiday
第2週 Week-2 (9/27) https://meet.jit.si/introductiontofiction
Introduction; The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
第3週 Week-3 (10/04)
Ambrose Bierce "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (pp78-84)
Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour” (pp147-149)
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” (pp262-269)
第4週 Week-4 (10/11)
Extended National Holiday
第5週 Week-5 (10/18)
Edgar Allan Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher” (pp674-687)
Edgar Allan Poe “The Philosophy of Composition” (p891)
Richard Wilbur “The House of Poe” (pp941-943)
Edgar Allan Poe on Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (p934)
第6週 Week-6 (10/25)
Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (pp511-537)
Leo Marx “Melville’s Parable of the Walls” (pp931-934)
第7週 Week-7 (11/01)
Frank Kafka “The Metamorphosis “(pp399-433)
Kafka, Letter to Max Brod (p885);
Stanley Corngold, “Kafka’s The Metamorphosis” (p920)
第8週 Week-8 (11/08)
Mid-semester Review; Mid-term Essay Writing
第9週 Week-9 (11/15)
The First Mock Conference
第10週 Week-10 (11/22)
General Writing Issues
Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness” (pp150-210)
第11週 Week-11 (11/29)
Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness” (pp150-210)
Conrad “Preface to the Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” (pp877-879)
Conrad “Letter to Barrett H. Clark” (pp879-880)
Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness (pp925-927)
C. P. Sarvan “Racism and the Heart of Darkness” (pp936-940)
第12週 Week-12 (12/06)
Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Hyich” (pp765-804)
Tolstoy “What Is Art” (pp895-897)
Gary Saul Morson “The Reader as Voyeur” (pp933-936)
第13週 Week-13 (12/13)
Isaac B. Singer “Gimbel the Fool” (pp738-748)
Film Watching
第14週 Week-14 (12/20)
Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People” (pp622-636)
Author in Depth; Flannery O’Connor (pp968-972)
第15週 Week-15 (12/27)
Mukherjee “The Management of Grief” (538-550)
Mukherjee “A Four-hundred-year-Old woman” (pp889-891)
Richard Ford on “The Management of Grief” (pp922-923)
第16週 Week-16 (1/03)
Overall Review; Final Paper Writing
第17週 Week- 17 (1/10)
The Second Mock Conference
第18週 Week- 18 (1/17)
End-of-semester discussion; Grade Checking
學習評量方式
20% Preparation &Participation
20% Oral Presentation
20% Mid-term Paper (300-350 words)
20% Final Paper (300-350 words)
20% Two Mock Conferences

Attendance Policies:
1. Arrival 5 minutes after the class starts is counted as tardiness; arrival 20 minutes after the class starts is counted as one absence.
2. For tardiness, one point is deducted from your final grade; for absence, five points are deducted from your final grade.
3. No make-up exam will be given unless you could justify your absence on the day of exam.
4. All leaves must be proved with valid documents.
教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Eds. Richard Bausch and R. V. Cassill.
ISBN978-0-393-93776-3
Textbook available at Caves Bookstore on campus
課程教材（教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址）
online classroom: https://meet.jit.si/introductiontofiction

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課程輔導時間
Wednesday 10-12
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