Week 1     Introduction to the class

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

Week 3.   Moliere (1622-1673), Tartuffe

     Worksheet #1

Week 4.   Jean Racine (1639-1699), Phaedra

               Worksheet #2

Week 5. Voltaire (1694-1778), Candide

              Worksheet #3

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

             Worksheet #4

Week 7 Rousseau (1712-1778), Confessions

             Worksheet #5

Week 8 Goethe (1749-1832), Faust

Worksheet #6

Week 9 Mid-term Exam

Week 10 Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), poems

 Week 11 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837),

             The Queen of Spades

              Worksheet #7

Weel 12  History and Culture (II): 19th Century and Modernism

Week 13 Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) The Flowers of Evil

      Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), Poems

      Worksheet #8

Week 14 Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Worksheet #9

Weelk 15  Guy De Maupassant, Hautot and His Son

                 Worksheet #10

Week 16  Chekhov (1860-1904), The Lady with the Dog

                Worksheet #11

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

               Worksheet #12

Week 18  Patrick Suskind (1949- ), Das Parfum (The Perfume)

               Worksheet #13

 Final exam

None

Requirements:

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

2. Worksheets: There will be a dozen of worksheets accompanying the texts we will read in class. Be sure to turn in the worksheets on the due dates or in class.

3. Exams: A mid-term and a final (April 24 and June 26)

The following formula will be used to decide your final grade:

Attendance and discussion 20%

Worksheets 30%

Exams 50%

Required texts:

The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Vol 2. 9th ed. (Bookman)

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