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Being far away in Europe, I have designed
this course for you Taiwanese high school teachers with the
hopes that this project will help you learn more about how
to analyse shorter forms of English literature (short
stories and poems) so that you can enrich your lives, and by
extension your students', through appreciating the language
of these literary "gems" and thinking about the issues in
which they are engaged.
In this course, we can savour two kinds of
distance-my distance from you, as well as the distance
between us and the literary texts we discuss. To bridge the
second type of distance, I am choosing topics which I think
Taiwanese high school teachers and their students may be
interested in: Love, Family Relations, Teen Life,
Self-Identity and Choices of Life. Literary works, among
other things, are "gems of life," or verbal crystallizations
of lived moments and thoughts specific to the society to
which they belong. But in one way or another they still
speak to us, presenting our feelings and dealing with
problems that are often still very much a part of life
today.
As for my distance from you, hopefully the
online lectures and reading supports will help bridge it.
Also, you are welcome to write emails to me asking questions
or for clarifications. It was very strange for me to be
"teaching" a group that was not there, but oddly, by the end
of the sixteen lessons I felt that we had come on a journey
together. Hopefully, you will feel the same way.
Love
慕情互愛
Lesson 1
Ann Bradstreet,
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" demonstration
lesson
Lesson 2
William Shakespeare, "Shall I
Compare thee to a Summer's Day";
"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"
Lesson 3
Henry, "Gift of the Magi" demonstration
lesson
Lesson 4
Donne, "The Flea"
Suckling, "Out Upon It--"
Behn, "On Her Loving Two Equally"
Parent-Child Relations
親子關係
Lesson 5
Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"
Sylvia Plath, "Daddy"
Lesson 6
Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"
James Joyce's "Eveline"
Lesson 7
Amy Tan, "Two Kinds"
Teen Life
青青子衿
Lesson 8
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse"
Andrew Hudgins "Seventeen"
Lesson 9
Updike, "A&P"
Lesson 10
Joyce Carol Oates, "Where are You Going, Where Have you
Been?"
Self-Identity
自我認同
Lesson 11
Emily Dickinson, "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?"
"There's a Certain Slant of Light,"
"Before I Got my Eye Put Out"
Lesson 12
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
Lesson 13
Whitman From "I Sing the Body Electric"
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, "Ozymandias"
Choices of Life
人生抉擇
Lesson 14
Thomas Hardy, "The Ruined Maid"; Robert Frost, "The Road Not
Taken"
Lesson 15
Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Lesson 16
Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace" |