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課程名稱	(中) 文學批評(6018)
	(Eng.) Literary Criticism
開課單位	外文系
課程類別	必修	學分	3	授課教師	陳淑卿
選課單位	外文系 / 碩士班	授課使用語言	英文	英文/EMI	Y	開課學期	1122
課程簡述	This course examines contemporary literary theories since Structuralism. The course intends to introduce some fundamental concepts and important thinkers/theorists of structuralism, poststructuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, feminism, ecocriticism, etc. Samples of works by important thinkers and philosophers of the last two centuries, i.e., Althusser, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, etc. will be read, discussed or reviewed. To give you a better sense of a theoretical tradition, we use Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory (2017) and, from time to time, Terry Eagleton’s Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) to serve as a guideline and a map to help you locate the specific contributions each of the theorists brings to literary studies, and the dialogues among them. Given the amount of works and the complexity of each writer’s development of thoughts, our introductory readings will serve just as an initiation, rather than an entire tour, for your excursion. A few of the key concepts, like the revolutionary ideas of language, subject, discourse, power, ideology, etc., will cut across some of the readings on the list and become our on-going concerns.
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 Introduce important philosophers, critical theories, and terminology
 Foster Students’ critical ability
 Enhance students’ oral and written communication skills.

All students are obligated to give THREE oral presentations. For those presentations you are expected to give a brief summary of the assigned readings, bring significant concepts into attention, unpack the essays, tease out the implied ideas, and raise questions for class discussion. For writers like Derrida, Freud, Lacan, Žižek, Foucault, etc., whose works cover all different theoretical grounds, a brief introduction of their works and major concepts is in order. All attendants are required to participate in the class discussion. Absence without leave or reasonable excuses is not allowed. There will be THREE response papers to the original works of major authors (600-800 words).

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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	2/20 Introduction
第2週	2/27 Beginning Theory Peter Barry, excerpt from “Theory before Theory” starting from “Literary theorizing from Aristotle to Leavis—some key moments” Beginning Theory, 23-38
第3週	3/5 Structuralism and Semiotics Peter Berry, “Structuralism” Beginning Theory, 40-60.
第4週	3/12 Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Postmodernism Terry Eagleton, “Post-structuralism” Literary Theory: An Introduction, 127-150 (Hand-out) Peter Barry, “Poststructuralism and construction— Poststructuralism—Life on a Decentered Planet” 65-76
第5週	3/19 Postmodernism 1 Peter Barry, “Postmodernism” 83-96. Excerpts from Frederic Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”
第6週	3/26 Review of what we have learned so far And how they can help us read literature
第7週	4/2 Spring Break No Class (The first response paper due 4/2)
第8週	4/9 Marxist Criticism: Althusser 1 Peter Barry, “Marxist Criticism.” Beginning Theory. 159-174
第9週	4/16 Louis Althusser, excerpts from “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.“ Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. (handout)
第10週	4/23 Psychoanalysis: Freud 1 Terry Eagleton, “Psychoanalysis” 151-163 (Freud) Sigmund Freud, excerpts from “The Dream Work” 170-176 (handout)
第11週	4/30 Psychoanalysis: Lacan 1 Terry Eagleton, “Psychoanalysis” 163-179. (Lacan) Lacan, “The Mirror Stage…” (handout) (The second response paper due 5/5)
第12週	5/7 Foucault: Discipline and Punishment 1 Foucault, “’Panopticism’ from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” (handout)
第13週	5/14 Foucault: Power and the Subject 1 Foucault, “The Subject and Power” (handout)
第14週	5/21 Feminism and Writing: 2 Peter Barry, “Feminist Criticism,” Beginning Theory, 123-136. Nancy Armstrong, “What Feminism did to Novel Studies?” The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory.
第15週	5/28 Feminism and Political Economy Rubin, Gayle. 1975. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex.” Tong, Rosemarie. 2008. “Multicultural, Global, and Postcolonial Feminism.” (T)
第16週	6/4 Postcolonialism 1 Peter Barry, “Postcolonial Criticism,” Beginning Theory, 194-204 Andrew Smith, “Migrancy, hybridity, and postcolonial literary studies.” The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies.
第17週	6/11 Self-learning
第18週	6/18 3rd response paper due 6/23

學習評量方式

Grading Policies:

Attendance and class performance (30%)
3 Oral presentations (30%)
3 Response papers (40%)

Class Policy:
1. Unless medical or family emergency, no absence is allowed. Absence of leave have to be provided with proper
evidences. More than 2 absences without proper evidences will cost you the entire course.
2. Plagiarism is not allowed. Once found it will lead to the failure of the entire course. By plagiarism I
mean taking someone’s words as your own or copy-paste online resources without acknowledgement and proper
citation, or submitting your own work written for another course without the instructor’s submission.
3. Each one of you have to submit a question regarding the texts in question to our line group before the
beginning of the class for discussion.
4. All writing assignments have to follow the formats of the latest edition of MLA Hand book.

教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)

Major Texts:

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.“ Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.
Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP, 2017.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford UK: Blackwell, 1983.
Foucault, Michel. “’Panopticism’ from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.” Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, 2.1(Autumn 2008):1-12
Lazarus, Neil ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Rooney, Ellen ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. 3rd ed. Boulder: Westview. 2008.

課程教材（教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址）

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課程輔導時間

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Office: 1002 The Humanities Building
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