課程資訊
課程名稱
 嚴肅虛構：卡夫卡、貝克特、柯慈小說研究
Serious Fiction: Kafka, Beckett, Coetzee 
開課學期
 101-2 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學研究所  
授課教師
 齊東耿 
課號
 FL7236 
課程識別碼
 122EM3570 
班次
  
學分
 3 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期五6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
 外研三 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。第二類。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：12人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1012seriousfiction 
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課程概述

Course Description

This course explores the work of three serious writers essential to the history of literature in the twentieth century (Kafka, Beckett, Coetzee). We will read several works of each along with key critical engagements by Benjamin, Adorno and Blanchot through to Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Spivak, Critchley and Attridge in order to explore the ethical dimension of literature in the secular modern age. How can literature help us, teach us, caution us in our post-metaphysical epoch of plurality and ethical-political uncertainty (to say nothing of “disaster triumphant”)? A reassessment can show us why taking literature seriously is perhaps more timely than ever before.
 

課程目標
 Course Objectives
To familiarize students with a major strand in modernist literature understood as a on-going aesthetic-ethical project across the twentieth century; to expose students to several key critical approaches and theories (Frankfurt School, Deleuze and Guattari, post-colonial, deconstructive, and “ethical” criticism) in applied readings of these major authors.
 
課程要求
 Requirements:
Class attendance, participation, one class presentation of a critical work, one final paper about at least one of the key fictional texts using a critical, theoretical approach
 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 另約時間 
指定閱讀
  
參考書目
 References:
Adorno, Theodor W. “Notes on Kafka” in Prisms. Trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber. Cambridge: MIT, 1981.
Attridge, Derek. J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.
Atwell, David. J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Benjamin, Walter. “Franz Kafka”, “Some Reflections on Kafka” in Illuminations. Trans. Hannah Arendt and Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1969.
Begam, Richard. Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.
Blanchot, Maurice. “Kafka and the Work’s Demand” in The Space of Literature. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1982.
Coetzee, J.M. Doubling the Point. Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.
Connor, Steven. Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text. Oxford, Blackwell, 1988.
Corngold, Stanley. Lambent Traces. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.
Critchley, Simon. “Know Happiness” in Very Little…Almost Nothing. London: Routledge, 2004.
Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Trans. Dana Polan. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.
Derrida, Jacques. “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority,” Cardozo Law Review 11 (1990): 919-1045.
Hill, Leslie. Beckett’s Fiction: In Different Words. Cambridge: CUP, 1990.
Kennedy, Andrew. Samuel Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Kenner, Hugh. Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study. London: Calder, 1961.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravarty. “Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching.” An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2012.
Trezise, Thomas. Into the Breach: Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.

Other select Beckett criticism to be determined…
 
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課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 2
 3/01  Kafka 1, In the Penal Colony, etc; Corngold 
Week 3
 3/08  Kafka 2, Building the Great Wall of China, the Burrow, etc.; Benjamin 
Week 4
 3/15  Kafka 3, A Report to an Academy, The Researches of a Dog, etc; Coetzee, Deleuze and Guattari 
Week 5
 3/22  Kafka 4, The Judgment, Before the Law; Derrida, Jameson 
Week 6
 3/29  Kafka 5, Metamorphosis, Diaries; Blanchot, Adorno 
Week 7
 4/05  No Class: Tomb Sweeping Day 
Week 8
 4/12  Beckett 1, Stories (The Expelled, The Calmative, The End), selected Texts for Nothing; Kenner 
Week 9
 4/19  Beckett 2, Molloy part 1; Tresize 
Week 10
 4/26  Beckett 3, Molloy part 2; Begam 4, Hill 
Week 11
 5/03  Beckett 4, Malone dies; Begam 5, Hill 
Week 12
 5/10  Beckett 5, Malone dies, The Lost Ones, Imagination dead imagine; Critchley, Coetzee 
Week 13
 5/17  Coetzee 1, Waiting for the Barbarians; Dovey 
Week 14
 5/24  Coetzee 2, Waiting for the Barbarians; Attwell 
Week 15
 5/31  Coetzee 3, Disgrace; Attridge 
Week 16
 6/07  Coetzee 4; Disgrace; Spivak, Weil 
Week 17
 6/14  Coetzee 5; Diary; Head 
Week 18
 6/21  Coetzee 6; Diary - if possible/necessary