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課程名稱	柯慈小說中的不可再現的倫理抗力 The Unrepresentable Ethical Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Works
開課學期	102-2
授課對象	文學院外國語文學研究所
授課教師	齊東耿
課號	FL7263
課程識別碼	122 M8450
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學分	1
全/半年	半年
必/選修	選修
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備註	專題研究課程，上課時間另行宣布。總人數上限：1人
Ceiba 課程網頁	http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1022FL7263_
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課程概述	The most polemical critique of Coetzee’s unrepresentable characters is expounded in Benita Parry’s “Speech and Silence in the Fictions of J.M. Coetzee.” In this essay, Parry criticizes Coetzee’s staging of “impossibility of representation,” “estrang[ing] the norms of reality, and work” (149), making characters “not... disarticulated presence[s] but… interlocutor[s]”(164). Aside from Parry, Nadine Gordimer, Coetzee’s compatriot and fellow writer, in the review of J.M. Coetzee’s work Life and Times of Michael K writes: “the presentation of truth and meaning of what white has done to black stands out on every page, celebrating its writer’s superb, unafraid creative energy as it does; yet denies the energy of the will to resist evil” (142). Countering this line of critique, this course aims explore the oblique staging of unrepresentable characters in Coetzee’s works, especially in terms of structure and language, not to mention character developments and image building. in this sense, drawing from Levinas, Blanchot, Lyotard, and others, we try to explain how Coetzee’s staging of characters expresses an inexpressible ethical concern.
課程目標	The course aims to familiarize students with a theoretical framework of the contemporary ethics in relation to language, literary theory, and literature, leading to a re-thinking of Coetzee’s unrepresentable figures in the period of South Africa’s troubling history.
課程要求	Student is required to finish the assigned readings, and has to produce a portion of the thesis.
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指定閱讀	Bal, Mieke. Narratology Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997. Print. Blanchot, Maurice. The Infinite Conversation. Trans. Susan Hanson. Minneapolis: U of Minneapolis P, 1969. Print. ---. The Space of Literature. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1986. Print. ---. The Writing of the Disaster. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1986. Print. Critchley, Simon, et al. The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Ed. Simone Critchley and Robert Bernasconi. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Print. Coetzee, J.M. Age of Iron. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. Print. ---. Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews. Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992. Print. ---. Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. Print. ---. Life and Times of Michael K. New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Print. ---. Stranger Shores: Literary Essay 1986-1999. New York: Viking, 2001. Print. ---. Waiting for the Barbarians. London: Vintage, 2004. Print. ---. What is Realism. Bennington: Bennington College, 1997. Print. Davis, Colin. Levinas: an Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Print. Derrida, Jacques. Acts of Literature. Ed. Derek Attridge. New York: Routledge, 1992. Print. ---. Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. New York: Routledge, 1993. Print. Levinas, Emmanuel. Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo. Trans. Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1985. Print. ---. The Levinas Reader. Ed. Sean Hand. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1989. Print. ---. Otherwise than Being. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Print. ---. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1969. Print. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Differend: Phrases in Dispute. Trans. Georges Can Den Abbeele. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. Print. Spivak, Gayatri Charkravarty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2012, Print. ---. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. Print. ---. The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Ed. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print.
參考書目	Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. Ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: U of Minneasota P, 1997. Print. Attridge, Derek. J.M Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2004. Print. Attrige, Derek, and Rosemary Jolly. Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy 1975-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Print. Attwell, David. J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Print. Benso, Silvia, et al. Totality and Infinity at 50. Ed. Scott Davidson and Diane Perpich. Pittsburgh: Dusquesne UP, 2012. Print. Blanchot, Maurice. The Infinite Conversation. Trans. Susan Hanson. Minneapolis: U of Minneapolis P, 1969. Print. ---. The Space of Literature. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1986. Print. ---. The Writing of the Disaster. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1986. Print. Browning, Gary K. Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2000. Print. Brink, Andre, et al. Writing South Africa. Ed. Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Coetzee, J.M. Age of Iron. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. Print. ---. Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews. Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992. Print. ---. Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. Print. ---. Life and Times of Michael K. New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Print. ---. Stranger Shores: Literary Essay 1986-1999. New York: Viking, 2001. Print. ---. Waiting for the Barbarians. London: Vintage, 2004. Print. ---. What is Realism. Bennington: Bennington College, 1997. Print. Critchley, Simon, et al. The Cambridge Companion to Levinas. Ed. Simone Critchley and Robert Bernasconi. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Print. Davis, Colin. Levinas: an Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Print. Danta, Chris. Strong Opinions: J.M Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Christ Danta, Sue Kossew and Julian Murphet. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. Print. Derrida, Jacques. Acts of Literature. Ed. Derek Attridge. New York: Routledge, 1992. Print. ---. Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. New York: Routledge, 1993. Print. Didier, Franck. The Face of the Other and the Trace of God: Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Ed. Jeffrey Bloechl. New York: Fordham UP, 2000. Print. Dooley, Gillian. J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2010. Print. Dovey, Theresa, et al. Critical Essays on J. M. Coetzee. Ed. Sue Kossew. New York: G. K. Hall & Co, 1998. Print. Gallager, Susan VanZanten. A Story of South Africa: J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction in Context. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991. Print. Head, Dominic. J.M. Coetzee. Edinburgh: Cambridge UP, 1997. Print. Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Print. James, David, et al. The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction. Ed. David James. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. Print. Lazarus, Neil. Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990. Print. Large, William. Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing. Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2005. Print. Levinas, Emmanuel. Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo. Trans. Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1985. Print. ---. The Levinas Reader. Ed. Sean Hand. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1989. Print. ---. Otherwise than Being. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Print. ---. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1969. Print. Lukacs Georg. The Meaning of Contemporary Realism. Trans. John and Necke Mander. London: Merlin Press, 1963. Print. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Differend: Phrases in Dispute. Trans. Georges Can Den Abbeele. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998. Print. Moyn, Samuel. Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics. Ithca: Cornell UP, 2005. Print. Mulhall, Stephen. The Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009. Print. Perpich, Diane. The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008. Print. Pippin, Robert, et al. J.M. Coetzee and Ethics. Ed. Anton Leist and Peter Singer.New York: Columbia UP, 2010. Print. Silverman, Hugh J, et al. Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime. Ed. Hugh J. Silverman. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print. Shankman, Steven. Other Others: Levinas, Literature, Transcultural Studies. Albany: State U of New York P, 2010. Print. Spivak, Gayatri Charkravarty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2012, Print. ---. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. Print. ---. The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Ed. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean. New York: Routledge, 1996. Print. Toumayan, Alain. P. Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2004. Print.
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課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
Week 2		Emmanuel Levinas, Age Of Iron
Week 3		Emmanuel Levinas, Age Of Iron
Week 4		Emmanuel Levinas, Age Of Iron
Week 5		Maurice Blanchot I, Age Of Iron
Week 6		Maurice Blanchot II, Age Of Iron
Week 7		Maurice Blanchot III, Waiting for the Barbarians
Week 8		Jacques Derrida I, Waiting for the Barbarians
Week 9		First Chapter due
Week 10		Jacques Derrida II, Waiting for the Barbarians
Week 11		Jean-Francois Lyotard I, Waiting for the Barbarians
Week 12		Jean-Francois Lyotard II, Waiting for the Barbarians
Week 13		Simon Crtichley I, Waiting for the Barbarians
Week 14		Simon Crtichley II, Life & Times of Michael K
Week 15		Mieke Bal , Life & Times of Michael K
Week 16		Spivak I, Foe
Week 17		Spivak II, Foe