課程資訊
課程名稱
 加拿大文學: 短篇故事
Canadian Literature: Short Fiction 
開課學期
 99-2 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學系  
授課教師
 傅友祥 
課號
 FL4044 
課程識別碼
 102E45620 
班次
  
學分
 3 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 必修 
上課時間
 星期二@,5,6(~14:10) 
上課地點
 視聽館305 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。Open to international/exchange students.
總人數上限：15人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/992can_lit 
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課程概述

Short fiction as a literary genre has a vital part in Canadian literature, and many Canadian authors have made a significant contribution to the writing of short fiction. The course will acquaint the students with a variety of short stories written in English since the Confederation (1867) to the present. Readings will include widely anthologized canonical stories and other usually neglected texts drawn from various sources. The questions to be addressed in this course include indigenous oral tales, French Canadian contes, the English Canadian sketch, and the recent prominence of multicultural stories pertaining to issues of race and ethnicity. Central to the survey is the question of Canadian national and literary identity. The course will raise such important questions as: 1) How short stories facilitate the articulation of Canadian identities; 2) How definitions of the short story as a “marginal” genre intersect with forms of difference including race, region, gender, sexuality, and class. The writers and stories to be studied throughout the semester include Alice Munro, Sinclair Ross, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Timothy Findley, Larissa Lai, Rudy Wiebe, among others.
 

課程目標
 To acquire a thorough scope of understanding of Canadian literary tradition through the examination of national development, geographical differences, and multicultural formation.
 
課程要求
 Participation and Presentation are compulsory.  
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 另約時間 備註： Midterm: 15% Final: 15% Two term papers: 40% (20% each) Presentation, participation and attendance: 30%  
指定閱讀
  
參考書目
 A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English Ed. by
Donna Bennett and Russel Brown. Oxford UP, 2002.

Stories by Canadian Women. Ed. by Rosemary Sullivan. Oxford
University Press, 1984.

Canadian Short Fiction: From Myth to Modern. Ed. by W.H.
New. Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986.

 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
    
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
 2/22  Introduction and group division  
Week 2
 3/01  0301 Introduction Essay; Myth Making
*“Nanaboozhoo Creates the World”
*“Lumaaq”
*“The Sedna Myth”
 
Week 3
 3/08  Classic Stories before WWII
* S. Leacock “The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias” (1912)
* Anne Hébert “The Torrent” (1945)
 
Week 4
 3/15  Special Topic: Visiting Writers at NTU
* Hiromi Goto “Hopeful Monsters” (2004); 0316 Goto lecture at NTU
* Vincent Lam “Winston” (2005); 0321Vincent Lam lecture at NTU
 
Week 5
 3/22  * Sinclair Ross “The Lamp at Noon” (1968)
* Alice Munro “The Peace of Utrecht” (1968)

 
Week 6
 3/29  Colonial Vision of the Other: Inside Out
* Margaret Laurence “The Loon” (1970)
* Clark Blaise “A Class of New Canadians” (1973)
 
Week 7
 4/05  Reading Week 
Week 8
 4/12  Movie Deny Arcand’s Les invasions barbares; first paper due 
Week 9
 4/19  Midterm 
Week 10
 4/26  Colonial Vision of the Other: Outside In
* Rudy Wiebe “Where Is the Voice Coming From”(1974)
* Thomas King “One Good Story, That One” (2003)
 
Week 11
 5/03  Expatriate Writing
* Mavis Gallant “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street” (1981)
* Matt Cohen “The Expatriate” (1982)
 
Week 12
 5/10  New Classics
* Margaret Atwood “Bluebeard’s Egg” (1983)
* Timothy Findley “Dinner along the Amazon” (1984)
 
Week 13
 5/17  Biculturalism/Biracialism
* Wayde Compton “The Non-Babylonians” (2004)
* Michael Ignatieff “Quebec”
 
Week 14
 5/24  Black Canada
* Gerard Etienne “La Pacotille”
* Dionne Brand “Photograph” (1988)
 
Week 15
 5/31  sian Canada
* Madeleine Thien “Simple Recipes” (2001)
* Evelyn Lau “Family” (1999)
 
Week 16
 6/07  0607 New Canada
* Yann Martel “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”
 
Week 17
 6/14  0614 Second Paper Due; Final Exam