課程名稱:

美國文學作品賞析

課程英文名稱: Introduction to American Literature
教學目標:
1. 培養學生對美國文化與文學的素養,以及面對西方人文最基本的態度。
2. 引介英國近代重要的文學家與作品。
3. 藉由閱讀詩歌與劇本累積語言的感受力,同時也達到增加字彙與句法的技能。
4. 藉分析文學文本培養搜集線索的能力、組織結構與價值觀的判斷力。
教材大網:
1) Introduction to the course / subjects 課程目的、進度、評分方式/ Introduction to American Literature / Genres of literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
教學參考節數: 4
2) Guidelines for Poetry / Robert Mezey: My Mother & Donald Hall: My son, my executioner - Contradiction in its simultaneous discussion of death and life
- How paradox, irony, symbolism, juxtaposition and metaphor are employed in this poem?
教學參考節數: 4
3) Anne Sexton: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Fairy tale in irony
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4) Donald Hall: The Scream / William Carlos Williams: The Dance - Ekphrasis
- How do two media interact?
教學參考節數: 4
5) Guidelines for Drama / Susan Glaspell: Trifles (1916) - Law vs. morality
- Men vs. women
教學參考節數: 4
6) Garvey Fierstein: On tidy endings - love between two men
- Life & death
教學參考節數: 4
7) Guidelines for Fiction / J. Updike: A&P - Modern America
- On what phenomena is the author commenting in this short story?
教學參考節數: 4
8) Review
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