Syllabus system

2005年度上智大学シラバス

◆Writing Skills　－　（通）

O'LEARY JOSEPH

○科目サブタイトル

The first steps in writing about literature.

○講義概要

This course invites you to develop the capacity to react sensitively and articulately to literary texts. In the first semester, students will respond to the most famous short poems in the English language, found in Palgrave's Golden Treasury. In the second semester, we shall begin to learn and practice the basic concepts and methods of literary criticism, as introduced and illustrated by David Lodge, The Art of Fiction.

○評価方法

出席状況(20%)、授業参画(20%)、リアクションペーパー(30%)、レポート(30%)

○テキスト

F. Palgrave and J. Gross『Palgrave's Golden Treasury』 Oxford Paperbacks
David Lodge『The Art of Fiction』 Penguin Paperbacks

○他学部・他学科生の受講

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○授業計画

1	Introduction to course aims
2	Responses to short Elizabethan poems
3	Responses to short Elizabethan poems
4	Responses to short Elizabethan poems
5	Responses to short seventeenth century poems
6	Responses to short seventeenth century poems
7	Responses to poems by Milton
8	Responses to poems by Milton
9	Responses to eighteenth century poems
10	Responses to poems by Wordsworth
11	Responses to poems by Wordsworth
12	Responses to poems by Shelley
13	Responses to poems by Keats
14	Introduction to literary critical discussion of fiction. The topics below will be discussed in responses to the 50 articles in Lodge's book, with the literary examples he gives.
15	What is a story? Primitive forms of story-telling. Responses to a simple folk-tale.
16	Plot construction
17	Character creation
18	Narrative technique
19	Comic and tragic plot structures.
20	The creation of character.
21	Historical changes in fiction: the epistolary novel, nineteenth century realism
22	The specific techniques of the modern short story.
23	Identifying the theme of a fiction.
24	Evaluating the success of a fiction.
25	Symbolism in fiction
26	Intrusive authors, unreliable narrators.