課程資訊
課程名稱
小說選讀二
Fiction (Ⅱ) 
開課學期
102-2 
授課對象
外國語文學系  
授課教師
陳重仁 
課號
FL4002 
課程識別碼
102 24120 
班次
03 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
必修 
上課時間
星期一2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
上課地點
博雅312 
備註
戲劇與小說四科擇三必修。
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生) 且 限學士班三年級以上
總人數上限:40人 
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http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1022FL4002_03 
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課程概述

本課程計畫以生命政治(biopolitiics)的閱讀角度切入經典與當代英國小說與電影文本,閱讀文學與電影文本中反映出的生命倫理與身體政治,檢視當代文化理論與小說電影文本呈現的醫學想像與恐懼,企圖開發更具省思內涵的閱讀與思考角度。

本課程計畫以當代文化理論的閱讀角度切入經典與當代英國小說與電
影文本,閱讀文學與電影文本中反映出的當代想像與恐懼,藉由當代
文化理論與小說電影文本的比對閱讀,開發更具省思內涵的閱讀與思
考角度。課程內容除教師講授之外,更著重討論與作業練習, 透過辯證思
考與實際練習,培養英文文章閱讀、欣賞與思考,並培養閱讀英文文章的習
慣以及批判思考的能力;此外,課程設計並強調從閱讀訓練表達、思考、批判
與寫作的能力,課堂中強調互動的課程進行方式將提供學生較多的思考與表
達機會,期以培養對英語學習與研究的熱誠與信心。 

課程目標
本課程檢視醫學在文學、文化中的想像與再現,並得以從閱讀經典文學作品與流行文化作品當中,獲得更為廣闊的文化認知能力(cultural literacy)與國際通識視野(global literacy)。預計達成課程目標如下:(一)英文閱讀能力培養 (二)閱讀理解提升 (三)批判性思考 (四)書寫與口語能力培養 (五)文化理論導讀

 
課程要求
修課學生需每週閱讀授課教師指定的閱讀進度,參與課程討論,完成課程
要求之作業練習並張貼於課程網頁,學期間針對討論主題與繳交作業進行一
次小組口頭報告,課程評量包括課堂測驗、團體報告、期末書面報告、平時作業與課程
表現。 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
Kazuo Ishiguro. _Never Let Me Go_
Ian McEwan. _Saturday_

Movie Viewing and Discussion (required and selective): Ghost in the Shell, Frankenstein, The Island of Dr.
Moreau, The Island, Blade Runner, Metropolitan, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 11'09"01 September 11, Brick Lane, Notting Hill, V for Vendetta, Transpotting, Atonement (tentative movie titles, some are selective viewing items, refer to syllabus distributed in class) 
參考書目
Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen.
Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.
---. 2005. State of Exception. Trans. Kevin Attell. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press.
Anidjar, Gil. 2011. “The Meaning of Life.” Critical Inquiry 37.4: 697-723.
Braun, Bruce. 2007. “Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life.” Cultural Geographies 14: 6-28.
Canguilhem, Georges. Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences. Trans. Arthur
Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 1988.
---. The Normal and the Pathological. Trans. Carolyn R. Fawcett. New York: Zone Books, 1989.
Cohen, Ed. 2009. A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body.
Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Derrida, Jacque. Politics of Friendship. Trans. George Collins. London and New York: Verso, 1997.
---. “The Time of the King.” The logic of the Gift. NY & London: Routledge, 1997. 121-147.
---. “Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility: A Dialogue with Jacque Derrida.” Questioning Ethics:
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy. Ed. Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley. London and New
York: Routledge, 1999. 65-83.
---. “Hospitality.” Acts of Religion. Ed. Gil Anidjar. New York: Routledge, 2002. 356-420.
---. “Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides: A Dialogue with Jacque Derrida.” Philosophy in a Time
of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacque Derrida. Ed. Giovanna Borradori. Chicago
and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 85-136.
---, and Anne Dufourmantelle. Of Hospitality. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2000.
Flower, Michael J, and Deborah Heath. 1993. “Micro-Anatomo Politics: Mapping the Human Genome
Project.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 17.1: 27-41.
Foucault, Michel. 1973. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. A. M.
Sheridan Smith. New York: Vintage.
---. 1978. The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage.
---. 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage.
---. 1985. The History of Sexuality: Volume II: The Use of Pleasure. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York:
Vintage.
---. 1986. The History of Sexuality: Volume III: The Care of the Self. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York:
Vintage.
---. 2003a. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-1976. New York:
Picador.
---. 2003b. “The Birth of Biopolitics.” : Lectures at the College De France. New York: Picador.
---. 2007. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France,1977-1978. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Rabinow, Paul, and Nikolas Rose. 2006. “Biopower Today.” BioSocieties 1.2: 195-218.
Rabinow, Paul. 1999. “Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality.” The Science
Studies Reader. Ed. Mario Biagiolo. New York:Routledge. 407-416.
Rabinow, Paul, and Nikolas Rose. 2006. “Biopower Today.” Biosocieties 1:195-217.
Rose, Nikolas. 2001. “The Politics of Life Itself.” Theory, Culture & Society 18.6: 1-30.
---. 2007. The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Rose, Nikolas, and Carlos Novas. 2004. “Biological Citizenship.” Global Assemblages: Technology,
Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems.Eds. Ong Aihwa and Stephen J. Collier. Oxford:
Blackwell. 439-63. 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
課程討論、課程參與、課堂測驗 
20% 
 
2. 
小組口頭報告 
20% 
 
3. 
課程作業 
30% 
 
4. 
期末計畫 
30% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/17  Class Orientation
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: The Island 
第2週
2/24  ♘Introduction to Foucault I (the birth of biopolitics)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ I
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Never Let Me Go 
第3週
3/03  ♘ Introduction to Foucault II (governmentality and discipline)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ II
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Ghost in the Shell (selective viewing)
☺Group Presentation I: Cloning in Animation (Ghost in Shell) 
第4週
3/10  ♘ Introduction to Foucault III (sexuality and population)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ III
☺Group Presentation II: Imagination of Cloning in Popular Culture / Metrppolitan
♥ Assignment I: summary
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Metropolitan (selective viewing) 
第5週
3/17  ♘ Introduction to Foucault IV (the society must be defended)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ IV
☺Group Presentation IV: Cloning and Imagination of Autocracy
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Brazil (selective viewing) 
第6週
3/24  ♘ Introduction to Derrida (abnormal and the other)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ V
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Blade Runner
☺Group Presentation V: Blade Runner
♥ Assignment II: on viewing Blade Runner 
第7週
3/31  ♘ Introduction to Canguilhem (the normal and abnormal)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ VI
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: The Island Of Dr. Moreau (selective viewing)
☺Group Presentation V: The Island Of Dr. Moreau 
第8週
4/07  ♘ Introduction to Agamben (Bare life and State of Exception)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ VII
☺Group Presentation VI: Cloning in Literature (Frankenstein)
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Frankenstein (selective viewing)
♥ Assignment II: Frankenstein and imagination of man created life 
第9週
4/14  ♘ Introduction to Nikolas Rose (biosociety and biopower)
☞Text reading and discussion: _Never Let Me Go_ VIII
☺Group Presentation VIII: Cloning in Literature (Brave New World)
☺Group Presentation VII: Cloning in Literature (1884)
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: 1984 (selective viewing) 
第10週
4/21  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_I
♥ Assignment III: Reviewing Never Let Me Go
♥ Group Presentation IX: Introduction to Ian McEwan
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion:11'09"01 September 11 (selective viewing) 
第11週
4/28  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_II
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: _Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud_
♥ Group Presentation III: 9/11 and cultural trauma 
第12週
5/05  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_III
♥ Group Presentation IV: Introduction to 7/7 and its aftershocks
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Notting Hill (selective viewing) 
第13週
5/12  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_IV
♥ Assignment IV: race and immigration in the multicultural Britain
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Brick Lane (selective viewing) 
第14週
5/19  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_V
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: V for Vendetta  
第15週
5/26  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_VI
♥ Group Presentation VII: Thatcherism and conservatism
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion: Transpotting (selective viewing)
♥ Assignment V: proposal for final projects (thesis statement, expectations, works cited) 
第16週
6/02  ☞Text reading and discussion: _Saturday_VII
♫ Movie Viewing and Discussion:_Atonement_
♥ Group Presentation IX: science and evolution in Saturday 
第17週
6/09  Class Wrap-up
♥ Final project due date announced in class