SemesterSpring Semester, 2025
DepartmentFreshman Class B, Department of English
Course NameApproaches to Literature
InstructorCHIOU YEN-BIN
Credit3.0
Course TypeRequired
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

2/17  Introduction



Fiction



2/24   Chap. 2 Plot, 46-53; Ralph Ellison, “King of the Bingo Game”



3/03  Ralph Ellison, “King of the Bingo Game”



3/10  Chap 3. Narration and Point of View, 76-78; Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”



3/17  Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat”



3/24-4/07   Chap.4 Character, 94-101; Toni Morrison, “Recitatif”



4/14 mid-term exam



4/21-4/28  Chap. 7 Theme, 182-185; Yasunari Kawabata, “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”



 



Poetry



5/05   Chap. 10 Speaker



Narrative Poems and Their Speakers: Etheridge Knight, “Hard Rocks Return to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane”



5/12 1. Speakers in the Dramatic Monologue: E. Stallings, “Hades Welcome His Bride”



         2. The Lyric and Its Speaker: Gwendolyn Brooks, “the mother”



5/19 Chap. 14 Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech




  1. Simile and Analogy



      Todd Boss, “My Love for You Is So Embarrassingly”



5/26-6/02  2 metaphor



         William Shakespeare, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”



         4. Metonymy and Synecdoche



William Wordsworth, “London, 1802”



6/16 final


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

TBA


Requirement/Grading

Attandence 15%



Participation 15%



Mid-term and final exams 70%


Textbook & Reference

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Fourteenth Edition. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.


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