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課程名稱	專題研究一 Independent Study (Ⅰ)
開課學期	110-1
授課對象	外國語文學研究所
授課教師	劉亮雅
課號	FL8066
課程識別碼	122 D2240
班次	01
學分	1.0
全/半年	半年
必/選修	選修
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備註	初選不開放。上課時間地點請洽授課教師。限博士班總人數上限：1人

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課程概述	Though the theme of female friendship in literature has been widely explored, many literary studies have tended to focus on literature prior to the twentieth century and prioritize the positive side of friendship, such as female friends’ mutual affection and support. As scant attention has been paid to the precarious aspect of female friendship in twentieth-century literature, this course will investigate such an underexplored area. In particular, this course focuses on the interrelation between precarious female friendship and politics in four novels—Henry James’s The Bostonians (1886), Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies (1943), and Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973). In the first section, the course will explore the theory on politics of friendship, with an emphasis on Derrida’s theory proposed in his book The Politics of Friendship (1994). The next section of the course will explore feminist and queer studies on female friendship, especially their discussion on the ways female bonding affects political coalitions. The third section will examine how nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in general presents female friendship, along with historical backgrounds that affected such literary representations of female friendship. The last section of the course will focus on the extant literary criticism of the four novels, particularly the criticism that pertains to the theme of female friendship.
課程目標	This course aims to provide theoretical and historical knowledge about the interconnection between female friendship and politics. Examining this area of knowledge, the course will provide the student with analytical tools to explore the following questions regarding the four novels: What causes the conflicts and tension between female friends in twentieth-century American literature? How female friends respond to or deal with such conflicts? How do interpersonal conflicts between women reveal and complicate political issues? Can women’s ways of dealing with these conflicts offer solutions to or evaluations of political problems? Can or should conflicts between women be resolved or reconciled?
課程要求	a. Regular attendance b. Participation and discussion c. Thesis Proposal
預期每週課後學習時數
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指定閱讀	As noted in the detailed schedule below.
參考書目	As noted in the detailed schedule below.
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課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第2週		Derrida, Jacques. The Politics of Friendship. 1994. Translated by George Collins. London: Verso, 2005. (Ch1-3)
第3週		Derrida, Jacques. The Politics of Friendship. 1994. Translated by George Collins. London: Verso, 2005. (Ch4-7)
第4週		Derrida, Jacques. The Politics of Friendship. 1994. Translated by George Collins. London: Verso, 2005. (Ch8-10)
第5週		Derrida, Jacques “Politics and Friendship: A Discussion with Jacques Derrida.” Centre for Modern French Thought, 1 December 1997, University of Sussex. Lynch, Sandra. “Aristotle and Derrida on Friendship” Contretemps 3 (2002): 98-108. Nixon, Jon. Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Still, Judith “Friendship and Sexual Difference: Hospitality from brotherhood to motherhood and beyond.” Derrida and Hospitality Theory and Practice Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010: 93-142.
第6週		Foucault, Michel. “Friendship as a Way of Life,” Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, translated by Robert Hurley and others, vol. 1, New York: New Press, 1997-2000. 135-140. Love, Heather. “The End of Friendship: Willa Cather’s Sad Kindred.” Feeling Backward: Loss and Politics of Queer History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2007. 72-99. Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs 5.4 (1980): 631-660.
第7週		Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Introduction.” Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. 1-20. Stacey Oliker’s “The Modernisation of Friendship: Individualism, Intimacy, and Gender in the Nineteenth Century.” Placing Friendship in Context, edited by Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 18-42. hooks, bell. "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women." Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Boston: South, 1984. 43-66.
第8週		hooks, bell. “Feminism: A Transformational Politic.” Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. 1989. New York: Routledge, 2015. 44-57. ---. “Feminist Politicization: A Comment.” Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. 1989. New York: Routledge, 2015. 181-191. ---. “The politics of radical black subjectivity.” Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. 1990. New York: Routledge, 2015. 39-50.
第9週		hooks, bell. “Homeplace.” Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. 1990. New York: Routledge, 2015. 76-88. ---. “Reflections On Race and Sex.” Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. 1990. New York: Routledge, 2015. 97-108. ---. “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness.” Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. 1990. New York: Routledge, 2015. 223-235.
第10週		Armengol-Carrera, Josep M. “Of Friendship: Revisiting Friendships Between Men in American Literature.” The Journal of Men’s Studies 17.3 (2009): 193-209. Brodie, Marc and Barbara Caine. “Class, Sex, and Friendship: The Long Nineteenth Century.” Friendship: A History. Ed. Barbara Caine. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox Pub, 2009. 223-293. Faderman, Lillian. “‘The Loves of Women for Each Other’: ‘Romantic Friends’ in the Twentieth Century.” Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 11-36. Rosoff, Nancy G. and Stephanie Spencer. “Introduction.” British and American School Stories, 1910–1960: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1-28
第11週		Caine, Barbara. “Taking Up the Pen: Women and the Writing of Friendship.” Friendship: A History. Ed. Barbara Caine. London ; Oakville, CT: Equinox Pub, 2009. 215-222. Monteith, Sharon. “Advancing Sisterhood? Theoretical and Literary Formulations of Friendship.” Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. 28-49 Palumbo-DeSimone, Christine. “‘In the Privacy of Our Own Society’: Writing Female Friendship as Story.” Sharing Secrets: Nineteenth-Century Women's Relations in the Short Story. Madison N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 74-110. Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth- Century America,” Signs 1.1 (1975): 1-29.
第12週		Castle, Terry. “Hunted by Olive Chancellor.” The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture. New York: Columbia UP, 1993. 150-185 Coit, Emily. “Henry James’s Dramas of Cultivation: Liberalism and Democracy in The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima” in The Henry James Review 36 (2015): 177-198 Faderman, Lillian. “Female Same-Sex Relationships in Novels by Longfellow, Holmes, and James.” The New England Quarterly 51.3 (1978): 309-332. Gooder, Jean. “Henry James’s Bostonians: The Voices of Democracy.” The Cambridge Quarterly 30.2 (2001): 97-115.
第13週		Ledger, Sally. “The New Woman, The Bostonians and The Gender of Modernity.” Bells: Barcelona English language and literature 7 (1996): 55-62. McColley, Kathleen. “Claiming Center Stage: Speaking Out for Homoerotic Empowerment in The Bostonians,” The Henry James Review 21.2 (2000): 151-169. Ryan, Susan M. “The Bostonians and the Civil War.” The Henry James Review 26 (2005): 265-272. Shaheen, Aaron. “‘The Social Dusk of that Mysterious Democracy’: Race, Sexology, and the Modern Woman in Henry James's Postbellum America.” Androgynous Democracy: Modern American Literature and the Dual-Sexed Body Politic. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010. 17-46
第14週		Brody, Jennifer DeVer. “Clare Kendry’s ‘True’ Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen's Passing.” Callaloo 15. 4 (1992): 1053-1065. Bromell, Nick. “Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing.” American Literature 81.2 (2009): 281-303. Butler, Judith. “Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge.” Bodies that Matter: on the discursive limits of "sex." New York: Routledge, 1993. 122-138. Dean, Elizabeth. “The Gaze, The Glance, The Mirror: Queer Desire and Panoptic Discipline in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Women’s Studies 48. 2 (2019): 97–103.
第15週		Hering, Frank. “Sneaking Around: Idealized Domesticity, Identity Politics, and Games of Friendship in Nella Larsen’s Passing” Arizona Quarterly 57.1(2001): 35-60. Landry, H. Jordan. “Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 60.1 (2006): 25-52. McDowell, Deborah E. Introduction. Quicksand and Passing, by Nella Larsen, 1929. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986. ix-xxxi. Schalk, Sami. “Transing: Resistance to Eugenic Ideology in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Journal of Modern Literature 38.3 (2015): 148-161
第16週		Allen, Carolyn. “The Narrative Erotics of Two Serious Ladies.” A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 19-36. Benz, Stephen. “‘The Americans Stick Pretty Much in Their Own Quarter’: Jane Bowles and Central America.” A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of JaneBowles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 37-48. Curti, Lidia. “Alterity and the Female Traveller: Jane Bowles.” Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative, Identity, and Representation. Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, 1998. 133-154. Dillon, Millicent. “Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character.” Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction, introduced and edited by Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. 140-147.
第17週		Knopf, Marcy Jane. “Bi-nary Bi-sexuality: Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies.” RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire, edited by Maria Pramaggiore and Donald E. Hall. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 142-164. Lougy, Robert E. “‘Some Fun in the Mud’: Decrepitude and Salvation in the World of Jane Bowles.” A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles, edited by Jennie Skerl. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 119-133. Radia, Pavlina. “The Tawdry Frontiers and Nomadographies of Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies. Women’s Studies 39 (2010): 747–764. Shloss, Carol. “Jane Bowles in Uninhabitable Places: Writing on Cultural Boundaries.” A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 102-118.
第18週		Abel, Elizabeth. “(E)Merging Identities: The Dynamics of Female Friendship in Contemporary Fiction by Women.” Signs 6.3. (1981): 413-435. Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie. “Sula and the Primacy of Woman-to-Woman Bonds.” New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Biracial and Bicultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. 51-66. Fetters, Cassandra. “The Continual Search for Sisterhood: Narcissism, Projection, and Intersubjective Disruptions in Toni Morrison's Sula and Feminist Communities.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 13. 2 (2016): 28–55. Furman, Jan. “Black Girlhood and Black Womanhood: The Bluest Eye and Sula.” Toni Morrison's Fiction. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 12-33.