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課程名稱 |
早期美國文學
Early American Literature |
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開課學期 |
107-1 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學系 |
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授課教師 |
曼紐爾 |
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課號 |
FL4003 |
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課程識別碼 |
102E43030 |
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班次 |
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學分 |
3.0 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
必修 |
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上課時間 |
星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10) |
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上課地點 |
普405 |
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備註 |
本課程以英語授課。英國文學與美國文學九科擇五必修。
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限：60人 |
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Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1071FL4003_ |
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課程概述 |
Course Description:
This course examines American literature from its beginnings to 1820, paying special attention to questions of origins, identity, and exclusion.
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課程目標 |
Course Objectives:
• Understand Early American history and literature
• Master literary analysis
• Practice oral-communication skills in English
• Approach contemporary United States and global cultures from an informed, historical perspective
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課程要求 |
Requirements:
• Class attendance and participation
• Weekly reading assignments, always to be completed before class meetings.
• Reading quizzes
• Two writing assignments
• Informal, in-class writing assignments
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預期每週課後學習時數 |
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Office Hours |
每週四 13:00~15:00 |
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指定閱讀 |
Assigned Readings:
The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1. Beginnings to 1865. Shorter 9th ed.
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參考書目 |
References:
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume 1, 1590-1820. Cambridge UP, 1994. Print.
Elliott, Emory. The Columbia Literary History of the United States. Columbia UP, 1988. Print.
Drexler, Michael, and Ed White, eds. Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives in Early African-American Literature. Bucknell, 2008. Print.
Gura, Philip H. American Transcendentalism: A History. Hill and Wang, 2008.
Hoxie, Frederick E., ed. Indians in American History: An Introduction. Harland Davidson, 1988. Print.
Kolodny, Annette. The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860. Print.
Samuels, Shirley. Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation. Oxford UP, 1996. Print.
Society of Early Americanists. “Digital Resources for Early American Studies.” http://web.mnstate.edu/seateaching/digital_resources.html
Teuton, Sean. Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP, 2018.
Warner, Michael. The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America. Harvard UP, 1992. Print.
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評量方式
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項目 |
百分比 |
說明 |
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1. |
Class participation (quizzes, discussion, attendance, etc) |
15% |
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2. |
Group presentation |
15% |
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3. |
Midterm exam |
30% |
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4. |
Final exam |
40% |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
9/13 |
Introduction: What is America? Who is American? Where and When is American Literature? |
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第2週 |
9/20 |
Native American Cultures
• Native American Oral Literature (29-31)
• “The Iroquois Creation Story” (31-34)
• “The Winnebago Trickster Cycle” (35-37)
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第3週 |
9/27 |
Encounter, Discovery, and Conquest
• Christopher Columbus, “Letter of Discovery” (44-51)
• Captain John Smith, from The General History of Virginia (53-55, 56-65)
• Selected scenes from The New World (dir. Terrence Malick, 2005) and Pocahontas (dir. Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, 1995) [in-class screening]
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第4週 |
10/04 |
Puritan World-Making
• John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (92-104)
• William Bradford, from Chapters X and XI, Of Plymouth Plantation (69-72, 78-84)
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第5週 |
10/11 |
Public and Domestic Dissent
• William Bradford, section on “Mr. Morton of Merrymount” from Of Plymouth Plantation (87-90)
• Anne Bradstreet, 112-13, “The Prologue,” “The Author to Her Book,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment,” “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild,” and “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666”
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第6週 |
10/18 |
The First Great Awakening
• Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (166-67, 192-204)
• Cotton Mather, from Wonders of the Invisible World (159-65)
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第7週 |
10/25 |
The American Self
• Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur, “Letter III. What is an American?”, from Letters from an American Farmer (321-32)
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第8週 |
11/01 |
Un-American Selves
• Philip Freneau, “The Indian Burying Ground” (418-19)
• Phillis Wheatley, 420-22, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To The Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth,” “To the University of Cambridge, in New England,” “Thoughts on the Works of Providence,” and “To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”
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第9週 |
11/08 |
Mid-term exam |
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第10週 |
11/15 |
Holiday |
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第11週 |
11/22 |
Enlightenment and The Limits of Reason
• Benjamin Franklin, from the Autobiography (204-07, 220-31, 260-67, 272-84)
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第12週 |
11/29 |
Revolution
• Thomas Paine, “The Crisis, No. 1” (337-39, 346-51)
• Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (352-54, 356-60)
• Phillis Wheatley, “To His Excellency General Washington” (429-30)
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第13週 |
12/06 |
The Anxiety of Revolution
• Washington Irving, “The Author’s Account of Himself” and “Rip Van Winkle” (511-27)
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第14週 |
12/13 |
Intellectual Independence
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (550-53, 582-95)
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第15週 |
12/20 |
Transcendentalism
• Emerson, selections from Nature (553-66)
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第16週 |
12/27 |
Reconnecting with Nature
• Henry David Thoreau, selections from Walden (900-02, 920-33, 943-54)
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第17週 |
1/03 |
The Woman Question
• Margaret Fuller, from The Great Lawsuit (803-14)
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第18週 |
1/10 |
Final Exam |
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