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課程名稱	美國詩 An Introduction to American Poetry
開課學期	108-1
授課對象	文學院外國語文學系
授課教師	柯瑞森
課號	FL4185
課程識別碼	102E45810
班次
學分	3.0
全/半年	半年
必/選修	必修
上課時間	星期三6,7,8(13:20~16:20)
上課地點	綜505
備註	本課程以英語授課。限學士班三年級以上總人數上限：25人
Ceiba 課程網頁	http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1081FL4185_
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課程概述	待補 As a survey of American poetry, this course will introduce students to poems written across the span of American history, from 17th-century colonial poets to 21st-century (post)modern poets. The course will include poems from writers of diverse ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, writing in a wide variety of poetic forms and idioms.
課程目標	待補 Students will learn to: 1) Identify, describe, and compare the literary features of a variety of types of American poetry coming from a number of distinct historical eras, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic communities; 2) Evaluate how perspective and background inform the reading experience; 3) Articulate critical positions and interpretations; 4) Conduct scholarly research.
課程要求	待補 Three short (four-five page) essays, memorization of short passages of poetry, three sharings of poetry in non-academic settings, one group presentation, Discussion-Board postings, regular attendance, Mid-term and Final exams
預期每週課後學習時數
Office Hours	每週四 12:00~13:00 每週三 11:00~13:00 每週二 11:30~13:30 備註： Guo Ching Building 311, Tuesdays 11:30 - 1:30, Wednesdays 11 - 1, Thursdays 12-1
指定閱讀	待補 Various readings from Columbia Anthology of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini. Detailed assignments found on course calendar.
參考書目	待補 Brooks, Cleanth, R.W. B. Lewis, and Robert Penn Warren. American Literature: The Makers and the Making, St. Martin's Press, 2 volsw, 1973. Burt, Stephen. “When Poets Ruled the School.” American Literary History, vol. 20, no. 3, 2008, pp. 508–520. Coffman, Stanley K. “American Poetry: 1927-1952.” Books Abroad, vol. 31, no. 1, 1957, pp. 4–14. Erkkila, Betsy. “Emily Dickinson on Her Own Terms.” The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 1985, pp. 98–109. Hart, Henry. “For the Confederate and Union Dead: Reflections on Civil War Poetry.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 121, no. 2, 2013, pp. 205–224. Lehman, David. "The Visionary Walt Whitman." The American Poetry Review, vol. 37, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2008, pp. 11-13. Lentricchia, Frank. "Lyric in the Culture of Capitalism." American Literary History, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 63-88. William E. H. Meyer, Jr. “Whitman vs. Wordsworth: Visual and Aural Differences between American and English Poetry.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987, pp. 76–98. Parini, Jay, editor. The Columbia History of American Poetry, Columbia U P, 1994. Salska, Agnieszka. "Puritan Poetry: In Public and Private Strain." Early American Literature, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall 1984, pp. 107-121.
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課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
Week 1	09/11	Course Overview, Discussion of Poetry as Genre
Week 2	9/18	Parini Intro. Colonial Stirrings: Bradstreet, Wigglesworth, and Taylor. Freneau.
Week 3	9/25	Revolutionary Muses and Heralds of the New Republic: Bryant, Barlow, Wilde, Sigourney, Percival, Child, and S.H. Whitman.
Week 4	10/02	Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, and Channing, Very. and Cranch; First Discussion-Forum Posting Due
Week 5	10/09	Four Fireside Poets and a Nightmare Poet: Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Poe. First Non-Academic Sharing Due.
Week 6	10/16	Civil War Poets: Whitman, Howe, and Melville. Deadline for First Essay.
Week 7	10/23	African-American Travail and Triumph: Wheatley, Dunbar, Hughes, Cullen, Bennett, Brooks, Tolson, and Hayden. Second Discussion-Forum Posting Due.
Week 8	10/30	19th-Century Female Poets as Recluse, as Religionist, as Activist: Dickinson, Jackson, Guiney, Lazarus. Second Non-Academic Sharing Due.
Week 9	11/06	Mid-Term Exam
Week 10	11/13	Contrasting Postbellum Regional Voices: Lanier, Timrod, Jewett, Lindsay, Masters, Sandburg; Third Discussion-Forum Posting Due.
Week 11	11/20	Double Identities--the Poet as Farmer, as Business Executive, and as Physician: Frost, Stevens, Williams. Second Essay Due.
Week 12	11/27	Modernist Pioneers: Pound (Group Presentation), Eliot, H.D., Moore, MacLeish, Cummings, H. Crane; Fourth Discussion-Forum Posting Due.
Week 13	12/04	The Fugitives and the Confessionals: Tate ,Warren, Riding Jackson; R. Lowell, Plath, and Berryman; Third Non-Academic Sharing Due.
Week 14	12/11	'Despondency and Madness'-- Robinson, Aiken, Schwartz,Roethke,Teasdale, and J. Wright.
Week 15	12/18	Confronting a Global War-- (Group Presentation) Rejecting Post-War Complacency: Jeffers, Nemerov,Jarrell, Stafford; Ginsberg, Snyder, Merrill, and O’Hara. Fifth Discussion-Board Posting Due.
Week 16	12/25	Free-Verse Artistry vs. Renewed Traditions: Kinnell, Bishop, Ashberry, Levine ; St. Vincent Millay, Hecht, Wilbur, and Winters; Fourth Non-Academic Sharing Due.
Week 17	1/01	Holiday; Third Essay due 12/31
Week 18	01/08 Final Exam	Final Exam in class--at regular time.