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 外國語文學系 |
授課教師 |
喬 直 |
課號 |
FL5133 |
課程識別碼 |
122EU3170 |
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學分 |
3.0 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
必修 |
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 |
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Office Hours |
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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.
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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.
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評量方式 (僅供參考) |
No. |
項目 |
百分比 |
說明 |
1. |
Class participation |
10% |
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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. |
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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 |
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