課程資訊
課程名稱
當代文學思潮專題研究
Seminar on Contemporary Literary Thoughts 
開課學期
108-1 
授課對象
文學院  臺灣文學研究所  
授課教師
鄭芳婷 
課號
TwLit7126 
課程識別碼
145EM1200 
班次
 
學分
2.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期五4,5(11:20~13:10) 
上課地點
 
備註
本課程以英語授課。上課教室為國青會議室。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限:10人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1081TwLit7126_ 
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課程概述

This course focuses on significant contemporary literary theories and social issues at stake, fashioning dialogues between the two. 

課程目標
This course aims to prepare students for subsequent study in the field of contemporary critical theories. The materials include selected theories that work on the social issues at stake. By examining selected critical theories with both Taiwanese and European-American contexts, the course helps students to rethink the cultural, artistic, and social issues embedded in the selected materials. Students are expected to sharpen their critical skills and aesthetical connoisseurship. 
課程要求
1. Basic English speaking and writing are strictly required for all students.
2. Class attendance and participation is required.
3. midterm presentation: oral presentation 20-30 mins with printed outline.
4. Individual final paper: A. oral presentation, 10 mins B. 10- page written paper (not including cover page, abstract, bibliography, images) with text and reference, font 12, Time New Rome, 1.5 spacing, 2.54cm margin, MLA Format, 1/25 deadline
5. All students are required to submit comments and questions regarding weekly materials every class.

Class participation: 30%
Midterm: 30%
Final Paper: 40% 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
1. Lothian, Alexis. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. NY: NYU Press, 2018.
2. Rubin, Gayle S. Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
3. Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. NY: NYU Press, 2009.
4. Butler, Judith. Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay. Eds. Vulnerability in Resistance. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2016.
5. Kipnis, Laura. Against Love: A Polemic. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.
6. Ahmed, Sara. The Promise of Happiness. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
7. Rancière, Jacques. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Translated by Gabriel Rockhill. London; New York: Continuum, 2004.
8. Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 
參考書目
待補 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
   
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/13  Moon festival no class
 
第2週
9/20  Class introduction
How does contemporary theory work?
 
第3週
9/27  Alexis Lothian, Old Future. Intro
 
第4週
10/04  Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
 
第5週
10/11  Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex”
 
第6週
10/18  Gayle Rubin, “Afterword to Thinking Sex”
 
第7週
10/25  Gayle Rubin, “Postscript to Thinking Sex”
 
第8週
11/01  Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain
 
第9週
11/08  Judith Butler, Vulnerability in Resistance. Intro & Chap.1
 
第10週
11/15  Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
 
第11週
11/22  Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic. Chap.1
 
第12週
11/29  Anna Tsing, Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection
Chernobyl (2019)
 
第13週
12/06  Anne Anlin Cheng, Ornamentalism. Intro
 
第14週
12/13  Sara Ahmed, Willful Subjects. Intro
 
第15週
12/20  Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Intro & Conclusion
 
第16週
12/27  Individual final paper presentation
Final discussion
 
第17週
1/03  Final paper working process