1st Week        Introduction to the class; History and Culture

2nd Week        History and Culture (I): Enlightenment and Romanticism

3rd Week         Moliere (1622-1673), Tartuffe

                Jean Racine (1639-1699), Phaedra (I)

4th Week        Jean Racine (1639-1699), Phaedra (II)

5th Week        Voltaire (1694-1778), Candide

6th Week        Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Gulliver’s Travels



7th Week        Rousseau (1712-1778), Confessions

8th Week        Goethe (1749-1832), Faust

         Oral Presentations #1

9th Week        Mid-term Exam

10th Week        Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), poems

            Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837),

The Queen of Spades

Oral Presentation #2



11th Week        History and Culture (II): 19th Century and Modernism

         Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) The Flowers of Evil

         Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), Poems

12th Week        Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), The Death of Ivan Ilyich

         Oral Presentation #3

13th Week         Guy De Maupassant, Hautot and His Son

                Oral Presentation #4

14th Week        Chekhov (1860-1904), The Lady with the Dog

                Oral Presentation #5

15th Week Proust (1871-1922),Swann’s Way, Overture (Remembrance of Things Past)

16th Week            Oral Presentation #6



17th Week        Mann (1875-1955), Death in Venice

                Oral Presentation #7

18th Week        Kafka (1883-1924), The Metamorphosis

                Oral Presentation #8

            Patrick Suskind (1949- ), Das Parfum (The Perfume)

Oral Presentation #9                

Final exam

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Requirements:

1. Regular attendance: I will keep track of your attendance and a bunch of absences will make your final grades suffer.

2. Oral Presentations: Three or four of you will organize as a team to give a 20-minute oral presentation on the chosen work on the date assigned. You oral presentations should be based upon a written paper credited with each member’s contribution.

3. Exams: A mid-term and a final

    The following formula will be used to decide your grade:

    Attendance and class discussion 20%

    Oral Presentation 20%

    Exams 60%

Required texts:

The Norton Anthology of Western Masterpieces, Vol 2. 9th ed.

Photocopied handouts. （政大書廊）



Optional texts:

Horton, Rod W. and Vincent F. Hopper. Backgrounds of European Literature. （書林）

Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th ed.（書林）

呂健忠、李奭學編譯。《近代西洋文學：新古典主義迄現代》。（書林）



Outside readings:

Mid-term exam:

Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Notes from Underground

Flaubert (1821-1880), Madame Bovary

Final exam:

Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan

Camus, The Stranger