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課程名稱 |
恐怖、偵探、艾倫坡
EDGAR ALLAN POE：THE HORROR AND DETECTIVE FUNCTION |
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開課學期 |
97-1 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學研究所 |
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授課教師 |
劉毓秀 |
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課號 |
FL7056 |
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課程識別碼 |
122 M2530 |
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學分 |
3 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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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 |
外文會議室 |
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備註 |
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。第二類
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：15人 |
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課程簡介影片 |
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核心能力關聯 |
核心能力與課程規劃關聯圖 |
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課程大綱
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課程概述 |
Edgar Allan Poe has been a unique and crucial stature in American literature; and the “shadow” of this stature, we find, occupies a central position in the postmodern aesthetics. To read Poe is in a sense an effort to interpret the enigma of the human predicament in which the mind is more fascinated than threatened by horror, as well as more threatened than fascinated by knowledge. This course attempts to lead the students to undertake textual analysis of Poe’s tales of horror and detective stories, to understand Poe and his works by putting them in historical and cultural contexts, to look into the complex veins of the critical responses to Poe’s works, and to reflect on our own reactions to the Poesque aesthetics and its practice. And special attempts will be made to interpret Poe from psychoanalytic and postmodern perspectives. |
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課程目標 |
Students will be led
1. to undertake textual analysis of Poe’s tales,
2. to understand Poe and his works by putting them in historical and cultural contexts,
3. to look into the complex veins of the critical responses to Poe’s works, and
4. to consider: why and how do we still read Poe? This question will be asked especially from psychoanalytic and postmodern perspectives.
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課程要求 |
Students are required
1. to give reports and to participate in discussions in class
2. to write a midterm paper
3. to write a final paper
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預期每週課後學習時數 |
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指定閱讀 |
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參考書目 |
See “Syllabus.” |
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評量方式
(僅供參考) |
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項目 |
百分比 |
說明 |
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1. |
Reports and discussions in class |
20% |
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2. |
Midterm paper |
20% |
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3. |
Final paper |
60% |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
9/18 |
Syllabus and References-- 第1-4週
Introduction
Kennedy, J. Gerald. “Introduction: Poe in Our Time,” in A Historical Guide to Edgar
Allan Poe, ed. Kennedy, J. Gerald.
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第2週 |
9/25 |
(續) I. Sorrow: Failure of Separation
Poe: “The Oblong Box”
“Morella”
“Legeia”
Dayan, Joan. “Convertibility and the Woman as Medium,” in Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s
Fiction.
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第3週 |
10/02 |
(續) Freud. “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning.”
_____. “Repression.”
Kennedy, J. Gerald. “The Rhetoric of Dread: Poe’s Letters.”
_____. “Phantasm of Death in Poe’s Fiction,” in The Tales of Poe, ed. Harold Bloom.
_____. “Poe, ‘Ligeia,’ and the Problem of Dying Women,” in New Essays on Poe’s Major Tales, ed.
Kenneth Silverman.
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第4週 |
10/09 |
(續) Lacan. “The Subject and the Other: Alienation,” “The Subject and the Other: Aphanisis,” in The Four
Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
_____. “Das Ding,” “Das Ding II,” in The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The Ethics of
Psychoanalysis..
Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy.
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第5週 |
10/16 |
第5-8週
II. Horror: The Fall of the Symbolic Order
Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
“The Imp of the Perverse”
“The Black Cat”
“Berenice”
“William Wilson”
“A Tale-Tell Heart”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
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第6週 |
10/23 |
(續) Benfey, Christopher. “Poe and the Unreadable: ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,” in New
Essays on Poe’s Major Tales, ed. Kenneth Silverman.
Fisher, Benjamin f. “Poe and the Gothic Tradition.”
Freud. “Psychoanalytic Notes of an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia”
_____. “The Unconscious.”
_____. “The Uncanny.”
_____. “The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex.”
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第7週 |
10/30 |
(續) Ginsberg, Lesley. “Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe’s ‘The Black Cat,’” in American Gothic: New
Interventions in a National Narrative, eds. Robert K. Martin & Eric Savoy.
Jay, Gregory S. “Poe: Writing and the Unconscious,” in The Tales of Poe, ed. Harold Bloom.
Kaplan, Louise J. “The Perverse Strategy in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’” in New Essays on Poe’s
Major Tales, ed. Kenneth Silverman.
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror.
Lacan. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,”
“Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis,” in Ecrits: A Selection.
_____. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III: The Psychosis, 1955-1956.
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第8週 |
11/06 |
(續) Reynolds, David S. “Poe’s Art of Transformation: ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ in Its Cultural Context,” in
New Essays on Poe’s Major Tales, ed. Kenneth Silverman.
Stepp, Walter. “The Ironic Double in Poe’s ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’” in The Tales of Poe, ed. Harold
Bloom.
Williams, Michael J. S. “’Word of No Meaning’: Denial of the Symbol,” in A World of Words: Language
and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
Zimmerman, Brett. “Frantic Forensic Oratory and the Rhetoric of Self-Deceit: ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and
‘The Black Cat,” “Paranoid Schizophrenia in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,” in Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric
and Style.
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第9週 |
11/13 |
第9-12週
III. Theory of Mind, or (Excessive) Detection
Poe: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
“The Gold-Bug”
“The Purloined Letter”
“Mystification”
“The Man of the Crowd”
“A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
“MS. Found in a Bottle”
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第10週 |
11/20 |
(續) Barrett, Lindon. “Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialism in ‘The Murder of the Rue Morgue,” in
Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race, eds. J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg.
Gilmore, Michael T. “Poe and the Detective Story,” in Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in
American Culture.
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第11週 |
11/27 |
(續) Irwin, John T. “Mysteries We Reread, Mysteries of Rereading: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective
Story,” in Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism, eds.
Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.
_____. The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story.
Merivale, Patricia. “Gumshoe Gothics: Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ and His Followers,” in Detecting
Texts.
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第12週 |
12/04 |
(續) Van Leer, David. “Detecting Truth: The World of the Dupin Tales,” in New Essays on Poe’s Major Tales,
ed. Kenneth Silverman.
Whalen, Terence. “The Code for Gold: Poe and Cryptography,” in Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses.
Williams, Michael J. S. “Voice and Text: Displacement of Authority,” in A World of Words: Language
and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.
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第13週 |
12/11 |
第13-16週
IV. Mass Culture, the Technocracy of Art, and the Problem of Binding
Poe: “The Poetic Principle”
“The Philosophy of Writing”
“The Power of Words”
“Mesmeric Revelation”
“The Raven”
“Annabel Lee”
“The Bells”
“A Predicament”
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
“The Descent into the Maeltröm”
“The Immature Burial”
“Hop-Frog”
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第14週 |
12/18 |
(續) Barbour, Brian M. “Poe and Tradition,” in The Tales of Poe, ed. Harold Bloom.
Elmer, Jonathan. “Poe, Sensationalism, and the Sentimental Tradition,” in Reading at the Social Limit:
Affect, Mass Culture, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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第15週 |
12/25 |
(續) Freud. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. SE 18: 1-64.
Leverenz, David. “Spanking the Master: Mind-Body Crossings in Poe’s Sensationalism,” in A Historical
Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Kennedy, J. Gerald.
Loose, Rik. 2002. The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and the Administration of Enjoyment.
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第16週 |
1/01 |
(續) Peeples, Scott. “A Dream within a Dream: Poe and Psychoanalysis,” in The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe.
Whalen, Terence. “Poe and the Masses,” “Culture of Surfaces,” “The Investigating Angel: Poe, Babbage,
and ‘The Power of Words,” in Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses.
Verhaeghe, Paul. 2004. On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical psychodiagnostics.
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第17週 |
1/08 |
Final discussion |
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第18週 |
1/15 |
Final discussion |
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