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Starting from the rules and laws of poetics, this course aims to approach the answers to the questions of how a text signifies and what a text signifies by investigating, analyzing the basic units, sets, operations and relations that define the production of meaning. We will also attempt to see how the modern studies of poetics might be applied to language teaching, with a particular emphasis on the topics related to analysis of the structure of the texts, figures and genres.
Course keywords: poetics, poetics of the prose, fiction, aspects, principles Course Description: Starting from the rules and laws of poetics, this course aims to approach the answers to the questions of how a text signifies and what a text signifies. We will attempt to investigate, analyze the basic units, sets, operations and relations that define the production of meaning. We will also attempt to see how the modern studies of poetics might be applied to language teaching, with a particular emphasis on the topics related to analysis of the structure of the texts, figures and genres. Poetics has been generally considered as “the theory of literary discourse” that offers a systematic understanding of literary discourses and related activities and phenomena. This course will selectively introduce the major modern English, European currents of poetics and examine the main aspects and concerns on which these currents are built. Each lecture will be divided into two parts: the first will be focused on the key elements and concepts that characterize the poetics that is being introduced, in an attempt to see how the approaches and models that it suggests can be applied to the reading and understanding of the literary texts, and to the exploration of the literary potentiality; the second will be on the analysis of selected literary texts, with a particular emphasis on the English, European fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. 1. Poetics of the prose 2. The art of fiction 3. Aspects and principles Tentative Schedule: Week 1 Introduction and orientation Week 2-4 Beginnings and (Re-)Definition; Poetics and its major modern currents 1. Poetics by Aristotle 2. Poetics of the prose and the Art of Fiction; selected readings Week 5-8 The Art of Fiction 1. How to read a novel 2. Aspects and principles; selected readings Week 9-10 Midterm Oral Reports (oral and written) Week 11-12 The Art of Fiction 1. Analysis of the literary text 2. Aspects and principles; selected readings Week 13-15 Aspects and principles 1. Analysis of the literary text 2. Theories and practices 3. Poetics and Aesthetics Week 16 Presentations; term paper due *This schedule is susceptible to change. Evaluation: Attendance, participation and individual reading reports 50% Midterm report and term paper 50% Main Readings: Introduction to Poetics by Tzvetan Todorov, trans. Richard Howard (Minneapolis: the University of Minnesota). Poetics by Aristotle Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (London: Penguin). The Art of Fiction by David Lodge (London: Penguin). References: I. Poetics by Aristotle Introduction to Poetics by Tzvetan Todorov, trans. Richard Howard (Minneapolis: the University of Minnesota). Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (London: Penguin). The Art of Fiction by David Lodge (London: Penguin). The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth (London: Penguin). II. Poétique by Tzvetan Todorove (Paris: Seuil). Poétique de la Prose by Tzvetan Todorove (Paris: Seuil). Useful Websites: Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ Internet Archive https://archive.org/web/ Literary Terms https://literaryterms.net/ *(3)禁止使用AI
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16週課程
限英教系碩士班
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