NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 英國文學:二十世紀迄今(4519)
(Eng.) English Literatrue since the 20th Century
Offering Dept Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Required Credits 3 Teacher 鄭仁隆
Department Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate Language English Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description Introduce the important authors and their works in the English Literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
認識20-21世紀的英國作家與作品,學會欣賞、分析作品,拓展視野與培養批判能力
topic Discussion/Production
Networking/Distance Education
Written Presentation
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Study Outcome
Quiz
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 開學週: 相見歡 & 上課行事
“The English language ceased to be the sole possession of the English some time ago.”
― Salman Rushdie, “English Is an Indian Literary Language”
Week 2 1. “Adlestrop”, Edward Thomas, p. 142
2. “The Soldier”, Rupert Brooke, p.139
3. “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, Wilfred Owen, p. 164
4. “Rain”, Edward Thomas, p. 143
5. “Glory of Women”, Siegfried Sassoon, p. 151
6. From Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Siegfried Sassoon, p. 152

The Twentieth Century
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928): On the Western Circuit (1891), p. 36
William Butler Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, p. 215
Week 3 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness (1899), p. 71
William Butler Yeats:“The Fascination of What’s Difficult”, p. 219
Week 4 E. M. Forster: The Other Boat, p. 248
A. E. Housman. “Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries,” p. 135
A. E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young” p. 133
Week 5 Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the Wall (1921), p. 272-76
James Joyce: “Araby” (1914), p. 407
Week 6 D.H. Lawrence: Odour of Chrysanthemums (1911, 1914)
Week 7 校慶運動會補假
Week 8 George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant (1936)
Week 9 期中考
Week 10 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1915, 1917)
Week 11 Salman Rushdie b. 1947:
[The British Indian Writer and a Dream-England], p887
[English Is an Indian Literary Language], p.880
Claude Mckay, “Old England” p. 854
Week 12 Louise Bennet, “Jamaica Language, p. 856
Derek Walcott, “A Far Cry from Africa”, p. 943
Nadine Gordimer, “The Moment Before the gun Went Off”, p. 932
Week 13 Philip Larkin, “Church Going”, p.924
Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” p. 1095
Week 14 Doris Lessing, “To Room Nineteen” p. 900
Week 15 Margaret Atwood, “Death by Landscape” p. 1111
Week 16 Salman Rushdie’s “The Prophet’s Hair”, p. 1144
Week 17 Kazuo Ishiguro “A Village after Dark” p. 1193
Week 18 期末考
Evaluation
Midterm exam: 25%
Final Exam: 25%
Oral Report 簡報資料: 20%
Response to one of the works (One-Page Paper): Demonstrate your understanding and insight. 15%
Response to this course (感想心得) (One-Page Paper): (Must be written in English) 15%
平時小考:做為出席判讀、分數作為加分參考
共100分
Textbook & other References
Greenblatt, Stephen. General Editor. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries, Tenth Ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
https://lms2020.nchu.edu.tw/
Office Hours
Thursday 21:00-22:00
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
04.Quality Education   05.Gender Equality   10.Reduced Inequalities   16.Peace and Justiceinclude experience courses:N
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