課程資訊
課程名稱
美國現代詩:二十世紀中期以前
Modern American Poetry to Mid-20th Century 
開課學期
107-1 
授課對象
文學院  外國語文學研究所  
授課教師
喬 直 
課號
FL5133 
課程識別碼
122EU3170 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期三6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
新402 
備註
本課程以英語授課。
限學士班三年級
總人數上限:30人 
 
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課程概述

Course Description:

Survey of major American poetry beginning with 19th c. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Read and discuss some of the finest subsequent Am. poetry from early to mid-20th c. ending with the work of Theodore Roethke. The second semester course will take us from Randall Jarrell to late 20th c. Approach will be on this poetry's value as literary art rather than theory. 

課程目標
Course Objectives:
Learn and discuss the phenomena of art and literature, literary aesthetics, form, terminology, and meaning. Gain insight to values and cultural details of contemporary American thought and life. Explore breadth and wealth of English language, probing vocabulary, cadence, metaphor, idiom, etymology, connotation, subtextual reference, etc. 
課程要求
Requirements:
Fairly high English reading ability. Interest in literature, especially poetry, as an aesthetic art form. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
Assigned Readings:
Custom handouts, distributed in class, from which selected poems will be emphasized for the following week's discussion. Marginal glossaries to assist reading. Other handouts as needed. Attendance at selected viewings of film material on the poets and their work.

 
參考書目
References
Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home Repair Manual : Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.

 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Class participation 
10% 
 
2. 
Midterm exam 
40% 
Both exams cover substantive details about the poems and their authors, as well as literary terms and concepts, all as discussed in class. 
3. 
Final exam 
50% 
Both exams cover substantive details about the poems and their authors, as well as literary terms and concepts, all as discussed in class. 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/12  Opening Lecture: “Literature & The Human Condition”; intro. Walt Whitman 
第2週
9/19  Walt Whitman; intro. Emily Dickinson 
第3週
9/26  Emily Dickinson; intro. William Carlos Williams 
第4週
10/03  Williams; intro. Wallace Stevens 
第5週
10/10  Stevens; intro. Ezra Pound 
第6週
10/17  Pound; intro. Hilda Doolittle & Marianne Moore 
第7週
10/24  HD & Moore; intro. Robert Frost 
第8週
10/31  Frost; intro. Robinson Jeffers 
第9週
11/07  Mid-term exam No Exam. Show 2 biographic films on poets. 
第10週
11/14  Eliot; intro. Hart Crane 
第11週
11/21  Crane; intro. W.H. Auden 
第12週
11/28  Auden; intro. John Berryman 
第13週
12/05  Berryman; intro. Elizabeth Bishop 
第14週
12/12  Bishop; intro. Theodore Roethke 
第15週
12/19  Bishop; intro. Theodore Roethke 
第16週
12/26  Roethke 
第17週
1/02  Review 
第18週
1/09  Final Exam