課程資訊
課程名稱
 早期美國文學
Early American Literature 
開課學期
 103-2 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學系  
授課教師
 奚永慧 
課號
 FL4003 
課程識別碼
 102 43030 
班次
  
學分
 3 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 必修 
上課時間
 星期二6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
 外教202 
備註
 英國文學與美國文學九科擇五必修。中英雙語授課。
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：50人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1032FL4003_ 
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課程概述

Course Description
The course will cover a variety of works selected from those written by early European explorers of the North American continent to those by eighteenth century American writers. The literary trends within this long period and the historical, philosophical, and social aspects of the literary movements will be introduced accordingly. Class discussions are related to the changes, responses and adaptations in the literary circles. 

課程目標
 Course Objectives
1. Familiarity with American literary masterpieces;
2. Critical thinking skills
 
課程要求
 Students are required to finish reading the assigned texts before class. Participation in and contribution to the class are encouraged. 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
  
指定閱讀
 The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th shorter edition. 
參考書目
 待補 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
  
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
 midterm  
30% 
  
2. 
 final 
40% 
  
3. 
 quizzes 
15% 
  
4. 
 continuous assessment 
15% 
 Students are required to finish reading the assigned texts before class. Participation in and contribution to the class are encouraged. 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 2/24  introduction 
第2週
 3/03  pp.1-28 
第3週
 3/10  Christopher Columbus (pp. 24-28) First Encounters (pp. 36-38) John Smith (pp. 57-72) 
第4週
 3/17  William Bradford (pp.72-90) 
第5週
 3/24  John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (pp. 90-102) 
第6週
 3/31  Ann Bradstreet: The Prologue 1, 5, 6, 7; Contemplations 9; "The Author to Her Book"; "To My Dear and Loving Husband"; "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment"; "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet"; "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our Hourse"; "To My Dear Children" 
第7週
 4/07  Edward Taylor: "Prologue"; "Meditation 8; "Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children"; "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold"; "Huswifery" 
第8週
 4/14  Cotton Mather: (Introduction, pp.149-151); "At the Court of Oyer and Terminer" pp.153-155) Introduction to American Literature 1700-1820 (pp.157-169) Jonathan Edwards 
第9週
 4/21  Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin 
第10週
 4/28  Benjamin Franklin; J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (308-312; 322) 
第11週
 5/05  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (308-312; 322); Ralph Waldo Emerson (505-520; 536-541) 
第12週
 5/12  Washingtong Irving (Rip Van Winkle); James Fenimore Cooper (482-491) 
第13週
 5/19  Nathaniel hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"; "The Birthmark" 
第14週
 5/26  Edgar Allan Poe ("The Tell-Tale Heart"); Henry David Thoreau (Walden 901-910) 
第15週
 6/02  Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass) Read Song of Myself: Stanza 1, Stanza 2, Stanza 3, Stanza 5, lines 125-130, lines 150-153, Stanza 11, lines 421-427, Stanza 24, Stanza 51, Stanza 52. 
第16週
 6/09  Herman Melville (Bartleby, the Scrivener) 
第17週
 6/16  Emily Dickinson