Kate Liu, 2004 Summer
English, Fu Jen

Image: Ushering into Banality, Jeff Koons, 1988

Literary Criticism: Love, Desire and Class

Tentative Schedule

New Criticism and Beyond: Reading Traditional Poetry of Love
1-1 6/29

General Introduction

Analyzing love sonnets: praising the lady, the spiritual vs. the erotic.

Assignments:

(Reader: chap 1)
1-2 7/2
 New Criticism: its Context, Methodology and Limitations

Love Poems (cont'd)

(Reader: chap 2)
"Eveline"
Quiz 1

Psychoanalysis
2-1 7/6

The Unconscious, Libido and Love: Sigmund Freud

"Eveline" by James Joyce

(Reader: chap 3 to p. 153)
Poe's poem
2-2 7/9

Methodolody1: Dream Analysis and the Use of Symbol

"The City in the Sea" by EdgarAllan Poe, "Mindscape" and some examples of dreams

 (Reader: chap 4 to p. )
Bishop's poems
3-1. 7/13

Identity as Split and in Lack, Desire as Displacement: Jacque Lacan

Elizabeth Bishop's poems

 (Reader: chap 3 to pp. 156-163)
Poe's stories
3-2. 7/16

Methodolody 2: Neurosis and psychobiography

"Tell-Tale Heart" and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

 (Reader: chap 4 to pp. )
Quiz 2
4-1. 7/20
Psychoanalysis: desire and fetishism
 (Reader: chap 5 to p. 214)
"Snowed Up"
4-2 7/23

Introduction: Capitalism and Social Structure--Karl Marx

"Snowed Up"

 group's texts
Marxism

5-1. 7/28
(Wed)

Group Report 1; Mid-term (1) (Reader: chap 6 to p. 89; chap 5 pp. 216-17)
The Great Gatsby (excerpts)
5-2. 7/30

Social Conditioning --Ideology & Hegemony: L. Althusser& A. Gramsci

Excerpts from The Great Gatsby & the film

(Reader: chap 5 pp. 217-22; chap 6 to p. 89-94 )

Eliot's poem

6-1. 8/3

Literary Praxis 1: F. Jameson & T. Eagleton

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

 (Reader: chap 8)
6-2. 8/6

Another Sociology of Literautre:〈文學社會學的多重互動模式〉
 Another View on Society: M. Foucault's Views on Discourse and Power

(Reader: chap 7 pp. )
(Reader chap 9)

7-1 8/11
(Wed)

〈浪漫愛的雙重面向：革新意識與女性幻想〉

《我的野蠻女友》Group Report 2

(Reader chap 10)

quiz 3

Cultural Studies

7-2 8/13

Cultural Studies: Universal Abandon?

"Faces of Madness"

 (Reader chap 11)
〈城市飛行〉
8-1. 8/17

Representation, Commodification of Love

〈城市飛行〉邊緣外的邊緣：看（不）見『外勞』!

(Reader chap 12) 

8-2.
8/20

Discourse and Subjectivities; 解讀台灣流行音樂中的愛情世界（1989-1998）*

 (choose your own popular texts)

9-1 8/24

Taiwan's Popular Cultures

"Morning"; 哈日 ；流行音樂：全球化下的文化、科技、與創作

 Group's text
9-2 8/27
 Final Exam; Group Report 3