南山大学

文字サイズ
 
指定
 必
期間
 春学期
秋学期
単位
 ２
年次
 3
担当者
 TEE Ve-Yin
他の科目との関連
他学科履修 不可
副題
授業概要 The advancement in prose style was no less startling than the technological progress that had been unleashed by the world's first industrial revolution. It was during the Romantic period that England saw the rise of its most memorable novels and most innovative essays. Students will study Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and the novellas of William Polidori and Thomas De Quincey. The aim of this course is to help the advanced learner of English arrive at a deeper understanding of English Romantic history and culture.
学修目標 By the end of this course, you would gain the knowledge and confidence to talk and write about novels from the Romantic period. You will also have an idea of how to conduct specialist research in the field of Romanticism.
授業計画 Spring Semester
１．Why do people read?
２．Prose versus poetry
３．Mary Shelley
４．Love and Friendship(Part 1): Conceptions and Preconceptions
５．Love and Friendship(Part 2): Polidori's The Vampyre
６．Love and Friendship(Part 3): Polidori's The Vampyre
７．Love and Friendship(Part 4): Romantic Sensibility
８．Catch-Up Week
９．Scientists(Part 1): Conceptions and Preconceptions
10．Scientists(Part 2): Shelley's Frankenstein
11．Scientists(Part 3): Shelley's Frankenstein
12．Scientists(Part 4): Romantic Science
13．Science and Society
14．Conclusion

Autumn Semester
１．Introduction
２．Jane Austen
３．The Cult of Sensibility(Part 1): Conceptions and Preconceptions
４．The Cult of Sensibility(Part 2): Austen's Sense and Sensibility
５．The Cult of Sensibility(Part 3): Austen's Sense and Sensibility
６．The Cult of Sensibility(Part 4): The Language of the Heart
７．Catch-Up Week
８．Nation, Race and Empire(Part 1): Conceptions and Preconceptions
９．Nation, Race and Empire(Part 2): De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
10．Nation, Race and Empire(Part 3): De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
11．Nation, Race and Empire(Part 4): New World Disorder
12．Culture and Society
13．Literary Theory
14．Conclusion
授業時間外の学習（準備学習など） You will be assigned about 2 hours of homework every week. Apart from reading the course textbook, you will be given other reading materials and be expected to prepare class presentations, written analyses,etc.
評価方法 Spring semester: 1000-word essayが50％、homeworkが30％、oral presentationsが20％
Autumn semester: 1500-word essayが60％、homeworkが20％、oral presentationsが20％
テキスト Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: the 1818 text (Oxford World's Classics), ISBN 978-0192833662 and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics), ISBN 978-0-14-143966-2.
その他 You must bring these things to class:
・An A4-sized folder with at least 40 pockets
・A dictionary (this may be a book or electronic)