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Points學習查核表
 一、新批評與閱讀愛情詩 二、精神分析三、馬克斯主義四、文化研究
一、總介與新批評：
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新批評與閱讀愛情詩
1. How do we read a poem/text? What do we look for, the
author's intention, our own psychological projection, "the
meaning" conveyed through both form and content, or
the ways a text respond to its time?
2. What are the values in reading literature? Is it the
finest example of culture?
3. What is culture? How is it related to our daily life?
Can we resist commercial culture through cultivating our
"artistic" sensibility? Do you feel nostalgic
about "a certain historical period"?
4. Are we ultimately free? Is our subjectivity unified or
fragmentary?
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二、精神分析
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總論問題
1. Are we rational or autonomous? How is our body related
to our mind -and soul? Can the latter two transcend the
former? Or are they formed by it and also in resistance
to it?
2. What are Freud's theories of human psyche (or mind) and
sexuality? Do you agree with them?
3. Is intimate love definitely sexually driven? Should our
sexual desires be repressed or liberated? Can college girls
stay over at man's dorms?
4. Have you experienced Oedipus/Electra complex and/or castration
fear?
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夢的解析問題
1. How can the story of Peter Pan be psychoanalyzed? Does
that influence your appreciation of this fairy tale?
2. What does the excerpt from Sons and Lovers show about
Paul? (156)
3. What do you think about the family conflicts shown in
clip 1? (18:49)
4. Is repression, or sexual liberation, necessary for us
and for our older generation?
5. Is our consciousness still just the tip of an iceberg
today?
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拉岡
問題
1. Do you agree that our identity is fragmentary and why?
Which of the following do you agree with? "I think, therefore,
I am," "Where I think, there I am," or "I
think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think."
2. What are the three phases of psychic development according
to Lacan?
3. What is mirror stage? Why is it an important stage in child
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結論問題
1. Why is Dream the royal road to our unconscious?
2. Why is the unconscious structured like language? What's
the significance of this view?
3. What is Symbolic Order for Lacan? Is it all powerful?
4. How do we analyze a lit. text from a psychoanalytic point
of view?
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三、馬克斯主義
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總論問題
1. Is money (or the economic relations we are in) the most
important
determinant in our life?
2. Which class do you belong to? Are we all "middle class"?
What types of "class relations" do you see in our
society?
3. What is capitalism? How does it influence our life?
4. What type of "relations of production" are there
at school and in between the teachers and students?
5. Why do we want more than what is "useful"? Do
we have insatiable desire? If so, why? |
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導論錄影帶問題
6. Are teachers authorities to rebel against?
7. Are students buyers free to choose what they want? "I
don't think the school will like it."
8. Why does the father say that if the teachers serves the
students as "customers," the former will not guide?
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("Snow
up" 文本問題)
1. What are the binary opposites in the story?
2. How is Edie related to the men around her?
3. What gets "snowed up" in the story?
4. What do you think about the ending? Is Edie finally subject
to both the control of her society and the belittling of her
author? |
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意識形態和霸權問題
1. What is materialist determinism? (chap 5: 212)
2. What are the evils of capitalism according to Marx? (e.g.
chap 5: 213; chap 6: 83)
3. What solutions does he offer and will it work? (chap 5:
213)
4. Why are commodities fetishized? |
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L. Althusser& A. Gramsci問題
1. How does Althusser revise traditional marxism?
2. How are Althusser and Gramsci similar to and different
from each other in their views of ideology/hegemony?
3. How do they help us understand literature more?
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文學社會學的多重互動模式
問題
1. How do we do a Marxist reading of a story or a poem?
2. How do we detect and analyze the ideology(ies) of a text?
3. Is a text's ideology the same with authorial ideology?
Is authorial ideology the author's own ideas?
4. Is there anything outside of ideology? (In other words,
is it possible to stand outside of ideology and resist it?)
5. How is the control of ideology similar to or different
from that of hegemony, power and discourse?
6. Which types of social or self surveillance are legitimate,
and which types, unnecessary? How about the current quarantine
of SARS-a modern plague--patient? Do we really live in a prison-like
penopticon?
7. Which of the following statements truth or part of a certain
discourse, and what possible effects do they have?
William Wordsworth creates the Immortality Ode.
Our sexual desire is the source of our energy which can be
both constructive and destructive.
Any English major should know Shakespeare.
Necrophilia, pedophilia, and sex with animal should not be
allowed.
We are born to be male or female, and taught to be man or
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四、文化研究
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總論問題
1. What is, or are, cultural studies?
2. How possible conflicts it may have with literary studies?
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文本問題："Faces
of Madness"
1. What comes in the way of the two lovers? What role does
class play in it?
2. Who are mad in the story? And who are victims of their
own 'romance'?
3. Can we do a psychoanalytic reading of this story? |
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文化符號與服飾問題
1. How do we do a semiotic reading of fashion?
2. How do we do a Marxist reading of Fashion trends?
3. How do we avoid being the reductionism of Marxism?
4. What does it mean to study to discourse of "the
Chinese"? (e.g. 龍的傳人，旗袍？） How do we position ourselves
in relation to all the dominant discourses?
5. Why is the line between text and context, history and
representation blurred?
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文本問題：
1. How does our
understanding of foreign laborers in Taiwan help us understand
〈城市飛行〉?
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消費現象討論
1. The plot of romantic love in 瓊瑤's novels constructs weak
women with dreamy eyes and no contact with economic reality;
2. The negative content of contemporary Taiwanese love songs
about lovers' breakup makes us dwell on Romantic sadness
and fault-finding.
3. Violent films lead to violent behavior in teenagers.
4. The sensationalism on TV news program appeals to and
results in the audience's interest in and gossip over 八卦news．
5. The focus on and objectification of women's bodies in
music videos lead to rape of women in real life.
6. Contemporary inventions of telecommunication (e.g. Walkman,
E-games, cell phone, the Internet) leads to human isolation.
7. 為什麼台灣總是有時髦商品熱？（例：手機對消費者的主體建構有二：鈴聲召喚、漏接焦慮（張小虹）．
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文本問題："Morning"
1. Why does Lydia develop love relationship with Scott outside
of her wedlock? What does she want?
2. Does she get it? How do the two men relate to her? |
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大眾文化（popular
culture）問題
1. What is popular culture?
2. How do you define "Taiwanese" popular music?
Does listening to popular culture have anything to do with
our sense of identity?
3. What issues are involved our faddism? Our pursuit of the
Japanese cultures or the Korean ones? |
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