課程資訊
課程名稱
 混雜生物：文學作品中的變形與主體動力
Hybrid Creatures: Metamorphosis and Agency 
開課學期
 106-2 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學研究所  
授課教師
 吳雅鳳 
課號
 FL7282 
課程識別碼
 122EM3710 
班次
  
學分
 3.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
上課地點
 外文會議室 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。第二、三類。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：12人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1062FL7282_ 
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課程概述

Course Description
Hybrid creatures embody the perennial human desire to connect with something outside oneself. Jesus Christ is said to be the perfect hybrid, which incorporates man and God. This course is to explore the ramifications of such imagined or manufactured creatures, be it mermaid, sphinx, lamia, flying lion, etc., in terms of philosophy, religion, alchemy, natural history, literature, fairy tale, and arts. The course follows a roughly chronological order: classical, medieval, Romantic, Modern, and postmodern periods.
 

課程目標
 Course Objectives
This course is to train in-depth exploration into the intermeshed fields of literature, folklore, arts, religion, politics, biology and contemporary literary theory. Skills at verbal and visual analysis will be sharpened along with a broader horizon of human longings to connect. Texts of various periods and are covered to facilitate a more comprehensive view on issues related to hybrid creatures. Students are trained to present their findings and opinions in class presentation and discussion, and finally consolidate them in the form of a term paper.
 
課程要求
 Requirements:
Students are to read the assigned materials beforehand. Weekly reading notes are to be sent to the instructor before the day of the class. Each student is to lead 2 discussions in the form of presentation (50 min) with Power Point slides, and to produce a term paper around 18-20 pages in MLA style.
 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 另約時間 備註： Please make prior appointment via email. 
指定閱讀
 Ovid. Metamorphosis.
Paracelsus. “A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits.”
Jean d’Arras. Roman de Melusine.
Margaret Cavendish. The Convent of Pleasure.
Friedrich H. Karl Fouque. Undine.
Goethe. “The New Melusine.”
Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid.
Robert Burton. “The Anatomy of Melancholy”
John Keats. “Lamia.”
Germaine de Stael. Corrine, or Italy
Laetitia Elizabeth Landon. “The Fairy of the Fountains.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. “The Burden of Nineveh.”
A. Susan Byatt. Possession.
 
參考書目
 References (select):
General
Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: the life of a Victorian Myth. Cambridge: Harvard Up, 1982.
Auerbach, Jeffrey A., and Peter H. Hoffenberg, ed. Britain, the empire, and the world at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
Beer, Gillian. Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Bignall, Simone. “Black Swan, Cracked Porcelain and Becoming-Animal.” Culture, Theory, and Critique 54.2 (April 2013): 121-138.
Bloom, Harold, ed. The Grotesque. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.
Boyd, Barbara Weiden and Cora Fox, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America; 2010.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. Metamorphosis and Identity. New York: Zone Books, 2001.
Chao, Shun-Liang. Rethinking the concept of the grotesque. Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte. London: Lgenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney publishing, 2010.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Gail Weiss, eds. Thinking the Limits of the Body. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: an Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge, 2002.
Edwards, Justin and Rune Garulund. The Grotesque. London: Routledge, 2013.
Esterhammer, Angela. Romanticism and improvisation, 1750-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.
Gigante, Denise. “The Monster in the Rainbow: Keats and the Science of Life.” PMLA 117.3 (May 2002): 433-48.
---. Life: Organic Form and Romanticism. New Haven: Yale UP, 2009.
Gill, Miranda. Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth Century Paris. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
Keats, John. Poems. Ed. Elizabeth Cook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
Nussbaum, Felicity A. The limits of the human: fictions of anomaly, race, and gender in the long eighteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.
Paracelsus. Four Treaties of Theophrastus von Hohenheim: Called Paracelsus. Trans. and Ed. Henry E. Sigerist, et al. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1941.


Thomas, Deborah A. “Assyrian Monsters and Domestic Chimeras.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 48.4 (Autumn 2008): 897-909.

Cavendish
Pedersen, Tara. “’We Shall Discover Our Selves’: Practicing the Mermaid’s Law in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5 (Fall 2010): 111-135.

Melusine and other mermaids
Austern, Linda Phyllis and Inna Naroditskaya, Inna, eds. Music of the Sirens. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP; 2006.
Brownlee, Kevin. “Melusine’s Hybrid Body and the Poetics of Metamorphosis.” Yale French Studies 86 (1994): 18-38.
Irigaray, Luce. “Divine Women.” Trans. Gillian C. Gill. Women, Knowledge, and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy. Ed. Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall. New York: Routledge, 1992. 471-84.
Krell, Jonathan F. “Between Demon and Divinity: Melusine Revisited.” Mythosphere: A Journal for Image, Myth, and Symbol 2.4 (2000): 375-96.
Melusine. Compiled by Jean D’Arras. c. 1500. Ed. A. K. Donald. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895.
Leglu, Catherine. “Nourishing Lineage in the Earliest French Versions of the Roman de Melusine.” Medium Avum 74.1 (2005): 71-85.
Ritvo, Harriet. “Professional Scientists and Amateur Mermaids: Beating the Bounds in the Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Victorian Literature and Culture 19 (1992): 277-91.
Ritovo, Harriet. The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. “Maternity and Monstrosity.” Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France. Ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996. 100-24.
Todd, Dennis. Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in 18th century England. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1995.
Warner, Marina. Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds: ways of telling the self. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Warner, Marina. Phantasmagoria : spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Fairy tale:
Andersen, Hans Christian. Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales: A Selection. Trans. L. W. Kingsland. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.
Lokke, Kari. “The Romantic Fairy Tale.” A Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. Michael Ferber. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. 135-56.
Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Landon
Craciun, Adriana. Fatal Women of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.
Labbe, Jacqueline M. The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth. The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. “L.E.L.” 1837. Rpt. Ed. F. J. Sypher. New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1990.
---. Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Selected Writings. Ed. Jerome McGann and Daniel Reiss. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1997.
Lootens, Tricia. “Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine ‘Internal Enemies,’ and the Domestication of National Identity.” PMLA 109.2 (March 1994): 238-53.
---. “Receiving the Legend, Rethinking the Writer: Letitia Landon and the Poetess Tradition.” Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception. Ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen Behrendt. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999. 242-59.
Mandell, Laura. “Hemans and the Gift-Book Aesthetic.” Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 6 (June 2001): n. p.
Mellor, Anne K., et al, eds. Forging Connections: Women’s Poetry from The Renaissance To Romanticism. San Marino: Huntington Library, 2002.
Mellor, Anne K., ed. Romanticism and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.
Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Mellor, Anne K.. “The Female Poet and the Poetess: Two Traditions of British Women’s Poetry 1780-1830.” Studies in Romanticism 36.2 (1997): 261-76.
Pointon, Marcia R. Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture, 1665-1800. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
  
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
 Term Paper  
40% 
 18-20 pages, MLA style 
2. 
 Presentation  
30% 
  
3. 
 Participation and reading notes 
30% 
 Weekly reading notes on class assigned materials, handed in by the class (Weds. 12 pm) 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 03/01  Introduction; Film viewing: "Black Swan" 
第2週
 03/08  I. Becoming animal;swan-maiden, etc.  
第3週
 03/15  II. Classical literature: Ovid 1; Presentation begins 
第4週
 03/22  Ovid 2 
第5週
 03/29  III. French Romance: Melusine  
第6週
 04/05  Spring recess. Hurrah! 
第7週
 04/12  IV. Paracelsus and the Mermaid Tradition  
第8週
 04/19  V. Romantic Hybrid 1: Friedrich H. Karl Fouque; Hans Christian Andersen  
第9週
 04/26  VI. Romantic Hybrid 2: Keats: "Lamia"  
第10週
 05/03  VII: Empire and the Freaks: D. G. Rossetti  
第11週
 05/10  Your pick  
第12週
 05/17  Brainstorming for term paper topics 
第13週
 05/24  Term Paper Proposal due on Monday; Individual Interview on Thursday 
第14週
 05/31  No class 
第15週
 06/07  Mini-conference; Teaching Survey  
第16週
 06/14  Writing Up  
第17週
 06/21  Term paper due on Fri. 22 June, 5 pm (hard copy in my mailbox)