課程名稱 |
批判閱讀與文化探索二 Critical Reading and Cultural Inquiry (Ⅱ) |
開課學期 |
112-2 |
授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學系 |
授課教師 |
柏逸嘉 |
課號 |
FL2224 |
課程識別碼 |
102E24690 |
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學分 |
3.0 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
必修 |
上課時間 |
星期五6,7,8(13:20~16:20) |
上課地點 |
博雅310 |
備註 |
本課程以英語授課。與李紀舍、陳重仁合授 限學士班二年級以上 總人數上限:22人 |
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課程概述 |
Designed for sophmore students and above, this course requires no previous knowledge of literary criticism. Introducing textual analysis through hands-on exercises, the course exposes students to various perspectives for reading literature and culture through lenses of class, gender, power, knowledge production, economics, health, globalization, etc. Students will learn about important debates in literary and cultural studies, developing skills for analyzing texts to help them succeed in literature courses. Over two semesters, six professors will introduce a variety of critical lenses for viewing literature and society. Students will engage with a range of literary and cultural objects to gain new perspectives on our world and better prepare them for future courses in DFLL. Students may take one or both semesters.
This semester, the course will be team taught in English by Guy Beauregard, Chi-she Li, and Chung-jen Chen. Each instructor will teach a five-week module as indicated in the schedule below. Feel free to direct any inquiries to Guy at: guy@ntu.edu.tw |
課程目標 |
This course aims to empower students to perform higher-order thinking beyond memorizing, understanding, and applying, to also analyze and evaluate texts, then begin to formulate arguments. Targeted to second year students, though open to more advanced students as well, this course is designed to provide an introduction to academic literary engagement. Exposure to a range of critical reading practices, and practice with a diverse set of texts is intended to give students a taste of directions they could pursue in future courses. Moreover, the skills students will practice should improve their performance in future literature courses, or other pursuits requiring critical thinking. |
課程要求 |
Requirements:
• Regular attendance and active engagement.
• Weekly reading: students should carefully read all assigned texts before the class for which they are assigned.
• Strong self-motivation and self-discipline.
• Assignments under each instructor's guidance.
Assignments and grading: The semester grade will be an average of the three professors’ grades on assignments of their choosing, including a one hour exam to wrap up each of the three modules as noted in the schedule below. More details will be available in the first week of classes. |
預期每週課後學習時數 |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
Feb 23 |
Start of Guy Beauregard's module: The Problem of Representation |
Week 2 |
Mar 1 |
Discussion of W.J.T. Mitchell's "Representation" |
Week 3 |
Mar 8 |
In-class writing; plus discussion of Edward W. Said's "From Orientalism" (excerpts) |
Week 4 |
Mar 15 |
Discussion of Viet Thanh Nguyen's "Just Memory: War and the Ethics of Remembrance" and Atom Egoyan's "In Other Words: Poetic Licence and the Incarnation of History"; film screening of Ararat scheduled in the evening of Monday March 18 (details to be announced) |
Week 5 |
Mar 22 |
Discussion of Ararat, directed by Atom Egoyan; plus exam to wrap-up the first module |
Week 6 |
Mar 29 |
Start of Chi-she Li's module: Nonhuman Visual Culture; discussion of Immanuel Kant’s “Analytic of the Sublime”
Film-watching: Brokeback Mountain |
Week 7 |
Apr 5 |
No class (national holiday) |
Week 8 |
Apr 12 |
Discussion of Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” (excerpt)
Film watching: Maya Lin: a Strong Clear Vision |
Week 9 |
Apr 19 |
John Berger’s “Why Look at Animals?”
Film watching: Bear 71 VR |
Week 10 |
Apr 26 |
Instructor away; guest lecture ; discussion of Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem—I”
Film watching: The Remains of the Day |
Week 11 |
May 3 |
Discussion of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”; plus exam to wrap up the second module |
Week 12 |
May 10 |
Start of Chung-jen Chen's module: Visual Culture and Medical Humanities; discussion of Illness and Metaphors:
1. Susan Sontag. “Illness as Metaphor” (1978) https://buddhistuniversity.net/exclusive_01/Illness%20As%20Metaphor%20-%20Susan%20Sontag.pdf
2. Mike Nichols, director. Wit (Film) (NTU Library) |
Week 13 |
May 17 |
Discussion of Social Meanings of Illness and the Stigma:
1. Arthur Kleinman. “The Meaning of Symptoms and Disorders.” The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition (1988)
2. Arthur Kleinman. “The Personal and Social Meanings of Illness.” The Illness Narratives
3. Arthur Kleinman. “The Stigma and Shame of Illness” The Illness Narratives
4. Imamura Shōhei, director. The Ballad of Narayama (Film) (NTU Library) |
Week 14 |
May 24 |
Discussion of Outbreak Narratives:
1. Priscilla Wald. “Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War.” Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (2008)
2. Don Siegel, director. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Film) (NTU Library) |
Week 15 |
May 31 |
Discussion of Representing Old Age and Dementia:
1. Martina Zimmermann. “Alzheimer’s Disease Metaphor as Mirror and Lens to the Stigma of Dementia” (2017); https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28529231/
2. Floran Zeller, director. The Father (Film) (NTU Library) |
Week 16 |
June 7 |
Exam to wrap up the third module |
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