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課程名稱

摩登女性美國戲劇
Becoming Modern: Modernity and Femininity in American Plays by Women

開課學期

102-1

授課對象

文學院外國語文學系

授課教師

王寶祥

課號

FL3219

課程識別碼

102 33510

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

必修

上課時間

星期五2,3,4(9:10~12:10)

上課地點

共307

備註

限學士班二年級以上
總人數上限：30人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1021modernamerican

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課程概述

General Introduction:
The course is as much a drama class as a cultural studies class for it aims to explore the intersections of gender and modernity through extensive reading of plays written by American women dramatists in the first half of the 20th century, supplemented by studies of iconic women, especially actresses and artists of the same era. Starting with the conflicted conceptions of femininity in the Jamesian lady Isabel Archer in the Gilded Age, we explore the shifting patterns and changing tropes of modernity and femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, focusing on gender issues crossed by topical issues such as suffrage, psychoanalysis, race, sexuality, class, and war.

課程目標

Goal:
Students are required to conduct intensive textual analysis and interpret the play texts through a comprehensive survey of the gender and social relations at the time. By the end of the course they are expected to acquire extensive knowledge of the key women dramatists and artists of America of the first four decades of the 20th century, as well as an intimate knowledge of theories of proto-feminism, modernity and modernism.

課程要求

Requirements and grade:
1. Two presentations, one 2-3 min. introductory, the other 5 informative (20%)
2. Three quiz on plays (30%)
3. One final research paper (40%)
4. Attendance and participation (10%)

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

指定閱讀

Assigned Readings:
Textbook:
1. Plays by American Women: 1900-1930. Ed. Judith E. Barlow. Applause Books,
2000.
2. Handout

參考書目

see syllabus

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Three quiz on plays	30%
2.	One final research paper	30%
3.	Attendance and participation	10%
4.	assignment	10%
5.	oral presentation	20%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	9/13	Introduction: Modernity, Femininity, and New Women from Isabel Archer to Mae West, 1880s-1930s
第2週	9/20	Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women (1907): Suffrage Movement and Seminal Feminism/ Women’s Union League and the shirtwaist strike (1909)
第3週	9/27	Mina Loy Crystal Pantomine: the Sphinx and New Woman http://vimeo.com/18852108
第4週	10/04	Edna Vincent Millay Aria da Capo (1919) (presentation on contemporary American women poets: Amy Lowell and Leonora Speyer)
第5週	10/11	Alice Gerstenberg Overtones (1915) http://www.one-act-plays.com/dramas/overtones.html presentation: Little Theatre Movement in Chicago and New York
第6週	10/18	Susan Glaspell Trifles (1916): Gendered Violence in Court and on Stage
第7週	10/25	New Yorker, Jewish, and Algonquin: Dorothy Parker and Her Vicious Circle in Business is Business and Close Harmony, or the Lady Next Door (1924)
第8週	11/01	Women of the Jazz Age: the flapper, the lady, and the vamp (Cases of Louise Brooks and Zelda Fitzgerald) presentation: from Daisy Miller to Daisy Buchanan, debutante, socialites, and female empowerment
第9週	11/08	Djuna Barnes and Her Repulsive Women: The Dove (1925) “That furious lesbian”: Presentation of Sapphic artists (Eva LeGalliene, Mercedes de Acosta, Alla Nazimowa, Libby Holman, Nathalie Barney)
第10週	11/15	Their Eyes Were Watching Color: Zora Neal Hurston Color Struck (1925) and Harlem Renaissance
第11週	11/22	Edna Ferber and Showboat (novel 1926/musical 1927): Undercurrents of Mulatto and Jewishness
第12週	11/29	Sophie Treadwell Machinal (1928)
第13週	12/06	“Once Wild Here”: Orientalism, Hellenism, and Mysticism in Ruth St. Denis, Isadora Duncan, and Martha Graham
第14週	12/13	“When I’m Bad I’m Better”: Performing Dissident Sexuality in Mae West’s Sex (1926) and Pleasure Man (1928)
第15週	12/20	Gertrude Stein Four Saints in Three Acts (1928): Canonization of Modernism/ presentation on Alice B. Toklas
第16週	12/27	Children’s Hour Before Scoundrel Time: Lesbianism, Feminism, and Lillian Hellman’s Children’s Hour (1934) and Film Adaptation These Three (1936) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ftMG0GZMNk
第17週	1/03	Women at Work and at War: Clare Botthe Luce’s The Women (1936)/ Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Martha Gellhorn Covering the Spanish Civil War (1936-9)
第18週		Gertrude Stein The Mother of Us All (1947): Retrospective of Suffrage Movement