"Ah--ha, that's great! I love it."
「本詩意境深遠，耐人尋味﹒」
Are these examples of literary criticism? No.
Objectives
(Chinese)
Literary criticism is different from Literary appreciation: the
latter involves expressions of your feelings and pleasure in
reading, your likes and dislikes of a text, while the former, as
a formal training for literature majors, requires both literary
sensibility and critical thinking. In other words, literary
criticism consists of careful analysis of literary texts with a
conscious use of some critical frameworks and methods and an
active engagement in their critical issues.
(For further details on what literary criticism is, please view
this animation.
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/video/animation/lit1.swf)
In this course, therefore, we will try to improve our abilities
in:
1. analyzing literary texts from more than one critical
perspective;
2. responding critically to the issues raised by the chosen
literary or cultural texts;
3. placing, with the help of some critical theories, literature
and the issues involved in a larger context, such as those of
the texts' contemporary society, our society and our lives.
In
order to have a sense of focus in the vast fields of critical
theories, we will choose Love, Desire and Class as our
major topics. The questions we discuss will be:
How does a text produce its meanings both through form and
content?
What do the texts we examine say about love, desire and class
differences?
Are there meanings hidden in the texts and/or unknown to their
authors? If so, what are they and why?
The four critical schools will be used to help us examine the
texts' meanings and hidden meanings from various perspectives:
· New Criticism (2 wks)-textual meanings constructed
through formal unity, or with the assumptions of human
liberalism.
· Psychoanalysis (5 wks) -textual meanings driven or
repressed by desires of the authors or society;
· Marxism (5 wks) -textual meanings of social relations
and ideologies;
· Cultural Studies (4 wks)- textual meanings produced in
our culture or global culture.
課程要求（說明）︰
1. 跟上進度，每週閱讀和加入討論；＊學習思考主動性和每週線上討論(十七週每週2%)34%
2. 三次「思與辨複習測驗」(一次2%):6 %
3. 三個單元中（新批評除外）選
＊兩個單元寫理論作品分析兩份:20%
＊線上口頭報告一次（小組或個人）:10%
4. ＊期末考:30%