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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 |
110-1 |
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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 |
綜203 |
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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：50人 |
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Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1101FL4003 |
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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 |
每週一 13:00~15:00 |
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指定閱讀 |
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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. |
Final exam |
40% |
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2. |
Class participation (quizzes, discussion, attendance, etc) |
15% |
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3. |
Midterm exam |
30% |
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4. |
Group presentation |
15% |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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Week 1 |
9/23 |
INTRODUCTION [online]
Introduction to the course
What is America? Who is American? Where and when is American literature? |
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Week 2 |
9/30 |
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES [online]
•Native American Oral Literature (29-30)
•“The Iroquois Creation Story” (31-34)
•“The Winnebago Trickster Cycle” (35-37) |
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Week 3 |
10/7 |
ENCOUNTER, DISCOVERY, AND CONQUEST [online]
•Christopher Columbus, “Letter of Discovery” (44-50)
•Captain John Smith, from The General History of Virginia (53-65)
•Screening of selected scenes from The New World (dir. Terrence Malick, 2005) and Pocahontas (dir. Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, 1995) [in-class] |
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Week 4 |
10/14 |
PURITAN WORLD-MAKING
•John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (92-104)
•William Bradford, from Chapters XIX and XXIII, Of Plymouth Plantation (69-72, 87-91)
Group Presentation #1 |
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Week 5 |
10/21 |
DISSENT
•Anne Bradstreet, 112-13, “The Prologue,” “The Author to Her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” “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”
Group Presentation #2 |
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Week 6 |
10/28 |
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)
Group Presentation #3 |
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Week 7 |
11/4 |
THE AMERICAN SELF
•Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur, selections from Letters from an American Farmer (321-37)
Group Presentation #4 |
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Week 8 |
11/11 |
UN-AMERICANS
•Philip Freneau, “The Indian Burying Ground” (416-17, 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”
Group Presentation #5 |
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Week 9 |
11/18 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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Week 10 |
11/25 |
AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS DISCONTENTS
•Benjamin Franklin, from the Autobiography (204-07, 220-31, 260-67, 272-84)
Group Presentation #6 |
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Week 11 |
12/2 |
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)
Group Presentation #7
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Week 12 |
12/9 |
REVOLUTIONARY ANXIETY
•Washington Irving, “The Author’s Account of Himself” and “Rip Van Winkle” (511-27)
Group Presentation #8 |
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Week 13 |
12/16 |
INTELLECTUAL INDEPENDENCE
•Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (550-53, 582-95)
Group Presentation #9
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Week 14 |
12/23 |
TRANSCENDENTALISM
•Emerson, selections from Nature (553-66)
Group Presentation #10 |
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Week 16 |
1/6 |
FINAL EXAM |
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