Course syllabus

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Course Information

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Course title English Romanticism
Semester 110-1
Designated for EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Instructor YA-FENG WU
Curriculum No. FL 3002
Curriculum Id No. 102 23170
Class
Credit 3
Full/Half Yr. Half
Required/Elective Elective
Time Wednesday 2,3,4(9:10~12:10)
Place 普305
Remarks The course is conducted in English。

 

Course Syllabus

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Course Description Course Description: This course surveys British Romantic literature. Audio-visual materials will be employed, if necessary, to illustrate certain issues and to give a better introduction to the cultural milieu of the period. Lecture and discussion will be conducted in English.
Course Objective Course Objective: It is designed to facilitate students to form a well-rounded knowledge of the literature of this period by close reading of the texts, and to cultivate sensibility for the continuity of literary history.
Course Requirement Course Requirement: 1. Regular attendance and vigorous participation in discussion. (Absence without leave over 3 times disqualify you for submitting other assignments. 2. Reflections: 3 out of 8 units (2-3 pages) on authors and topics: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Women writers, Essayists, Byron, Shelley, Keats. 3. 3 Group presentation (10-12 min.) on authors and topics. 4. Research paper (10-12 pages in MLA / APA style) on authors and topics covered in the course.
References To be announced.
Designated Reading The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Romantic Period. 10th edition. vol. d. New York: Norton, 2018. (available at Bookman bookstore, 書林書局）

 

Progress

Week Date Topic
Week 1 9/22 Introduction; Romanticism film (10 min.) viewing and discussion; Homework 1: Introduction
Week 2 9/29 Wordsworth I: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Nutting"; "Tintern Abbey"
Week 3 10/6 Wordsworth II: Preface to the "Lyrical Ballads"; Burns: "To a Mouse"; "Auld Lang Syne"; Coleridge I: "Frost at Midnight
Week 4 10/13 Coleridge II: "The Rime of Ancient Mariner"; "Kubla Khan"
Week 5 10/20 Blake I: "Songs of Innocence and Experience": "Introduction," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Sick Rose," "The Tyger," "The Garden of Love," "London"
Week 6 10/27 Blake II: "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" Pl. 3,4,5, 6,7, 11,14,23, 24, 25;
Week 7 11/3 Women Writers: Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; Barbauld, "The Mouse's Petition"; Smith, "On Being Cautioned ..."; Hemans, "Casabianca"
Week 8 11/10 Essayists: Lamb, "Old China"; MLA In-text Citation
Week 9 11/17 1816: the Year without Summer; Byron I: "So We'll ...," "Manfred"; MLA Works Cited
Week 10 11/24 Byron II: "Childe Harold ..."; "On this Day ...."
Week 11 12/1 P. Shelley I: "Ozymandias"; "Prometheus Unbound", "Ode to the West Wind"
Week 12 12/8 P. Shelley II:Prometheus Unbound", England in 1819";"To a Skylark"
Week 13 12/15 Keats I: "On Seeing ..."; "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Week 14 12/22 Keats II: "La Belle Dame"; "To Autumn"; "When I have fears"
Week 15 12/29 Term Paper Proposal due on Mon., interview on Wed. (if necessary)
Week 16 1/5 Writing Up
Week 17 1/12 Term Paper due (Please submit in Word file via email)

 

Grading

NO Item Pc Explanations for the conditions
1 Term paper 40% 10-12 page research paper in MLA / APA style
2 Participation and attendance 10% Absence without leave over three times amounts to giving up the course.
3 Reflection on major authors 40% 3 Reflections of 2-3 pages on topics related to 8 units: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Women writers, Shelley, Byron, Essayists, Keats.
4 Discussion 10% In class discussion.

 

Office Hour

Remarks Meeting by email appointment.