English Literature: the 20th Century & the 19th Century
This survey course will introduce the historical development of English literature in the 19th century and the 20th century. It will evaluate the multi-facet relationship between literary tradition and the individual talent, while mapping out the historical context of literary progress in modern Britain.
Students are encouraged to appreciate two classic novels of English literature: Heart of Darkness---the epitome of modern literature, and Wuthering Heights--- a great novel of love. This course combines language-learning with reading literary works, and ultimately aims to enhance students’ awareness of the cultural setting of the English language.
1. Introduction :
Into the 20th century
2.
*Changing Life:
Modern Men and Women
Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters
(2601) ; Odour of Chrysanthemums (2576); The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter（2590）; Woolf, Modern Fiction（2429）
3.
*Modern Novel
and Life
Joyce, The Dead（2507）
4.
*Poet and the Modern World
Yeats, The Lake Isle
of Innisfree (2391); Easter
1916（2397）; The Wild
Swans at Coole (2399); The Second Coming（2402）; Sailing to Byzantium（2406）; T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (2628);
The Waste Land (2620-24); Dylan Thomas, Poem in October (2707); Larkin, Aubade
(2716); Walcott, The Season of Phantasmal Peace (2773); Heaney, Digging (2789)
5.
*Gender,
Family, and Society
Jean Rhys, The Day
They Burned the Books (2657)；Gordimer, The
Moment before the Gun Went Off (2718)
K. Mansfield, The Garden Party (2646); Munro, Walker Brothers Cowboy (2778)
6.
*Fiction, Brutality, and Nation
Brian Friel, Translations (2724)
7.
Conrad, Heart of Darkness（2329）
8.
Heart of Darkness
9.
*Fin de Siècle:
the Transition
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (2222)
10.
Midterm Exam
11.
Introduction : Culture, Technology , and the 19th century
Arnold, The Buried Life (2096); Culture and Anarchy (2126); Carlyle, Past and Present
(1916-20);
Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1966)
12.
*Work and Gender
Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott (1953); The
Lotos-Eaters (1958); Ulysses (1962); Elizabeth Browning, Sonnets from the
Portuguese (1926); Aurora Leigh (1942-46); Robert Browning, Porphyria’s Lover (2054);
Rossetti, “Song” (2139)
13.
*The Great 19th
Century Novel
Wuthering Heights
14.
Wuthering Heights
15.
Wuthering Heights
16.
*Psyche, Mind, and Beyond
Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde (2169)
17.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde
18.
Final Exam
References:
*Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary 11/e (書林 & Kindle); Concise Oxford
English Dictionary 12/e (誠品); *Oxford Dictionary of
English, 3/e (Kindle);《英漢大辭典》，陸谷孫主編 (東華)。
*Amazon Kindle
(with free Oxford Dictionary of English,
2/e)。
《黑暗之心》，鄧鴻樹譯注 (聯經，2006年8月)。
《不可兒戲》，余光中譯 (九歌，2012年5月)。
《化身博士》，楊玉娘譯 (小倉，2010年7月)。
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