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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 |
102-2 |
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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 |
星期一2,3,4(9:10~12:10) |
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上課地點 |
外研三 |
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備註 |
第二類。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：12人 |
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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 |
1. Class participation (40%)
2. Term paper (60%)
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指定閱讀 |
進度、指定閱讀與參考書目
第1週
Introduction
Kennedy, J. Gerald. “Introduction: Poe in Our Time,” in A Historical Guide to Edgar
Allan Poe, ed. Kennedy, J. Gerald.
Mina, Denis. Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death and Women. BBC, 2010.
第2-6週
I. Sorrow: Failure of Separation
Poe. “The Oblong Box”
_____. “Morella”
_____. “Legeia”
_____. “Berenice”
Cherniavsky, Eva. “Revivification and Utopian Time: Poe versus Stowe,” in The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 127-132.
Dayan, Joan. “Convertibility and the Woman as Medium,” in Fables of Mind: An
Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 133-192, 248-254.
Freud. “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning.”
_____. “Repression.”
_____. “The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex.”
Kennedy, J. Gerald. “The Rhetoric of Dread: Poe’s Letters,” in Poe, Death, and Life of Writing, 1987, pp. 89-113, 220.
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.
第7-11週
II. Horror: The Problem of Binding and the Fall of the Symbolic Order
Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
_____. “The Imp of the Perverse”
_____. “The Black Cat”
_____. “William Wilson”“
_____.A Tell-Tale Heart”
_____. “The Cask of Amontillado”
_____. “The Pit and the Pendulum”
_____. “The Descent into the Maeltröm”
_____. “The Immature Burial”
Fink, Bruce. “Chapter II. Diagnosis and the Positioning of the Analyst,” in A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, 1997, pp. 75-202.
Fisher, Benjamin f. “Poe and the Gothic Tradition,” in The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe, 2002, pp. 72-91.
Freud. “Psychoanalytic Notes of an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia”
_____. “The Unconscious.”
_____. “The Uncanny.”
_____. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. SE 18: 1-64.
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, pp. 45, 51-54, 60-64.
Kennedy, J. Gerald. “Revenge and Silence: The Foreclosure of Language,” in Poe, Death, and Life of Writing, 1987, pp. 128-144.
Kristeva, Julia. “Approaching Abjection,” in Powers of Horror.
Lacan. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic
Experience.” In Ecrits.
_____. “Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis.” In Ecrit.
_____. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III: Psychosis.
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, pp. 93-112.
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, 2005, pp. 28, 34, 39-41, 42-43.
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III. Detection, “Poesthetics” and Mass Culture
Poe. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
_____. “The Purloined Letter”
_____. “The Man of the Crowd”
_____. “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
_____. “MS. Found in a Bottle”
_____. “Hop-Frog”
_____. “The Poetic Principle”
_____. “The Philosophy of Writing”
Dayan, Joan. “Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves,” in The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 179-209.
Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 1972. “The Desiring-Machines.” Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London: Penguin, 2009. 1-50.
_____. 1980. “How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?” A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987. 149-66.
Elmer, Jonathan. “Terminate or Liquidate? Poe, Sensationalism, and the Sentimental Tradition,” in The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe, eds. Whawn Rosenheim and Stephen Rachman, 1995, pp. 108-120.
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, 1999, 27-41.
Leman, David. “The Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” “The Double,” in The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2000, pp. 71-81, 93-100.
Merivale, Patricia. “Gumshoe Gothics: Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ and His
Followers,” in Detecting Texts, pp. 101-107.
Olkowski, Dorothea. “Deleuze’s aesthetics of sensation,” in The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze, ed. Daniel W. Smith, Henry Somers-Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. 265-85.
Whalen, Terence. “The Code for Gold: Poe and Cryptography,” “Culture of Surfaces,” in Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Walsh, Lynda. Sins against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.
第17週
Concluding discussion
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