I. Content and Progress

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3學分 54時

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2/28(三)

8:10-10:00

Holiday

3/1(四)

10:10-12:00

Section 1.0: The Early Seventeenth Century 1603-1660

"Introduction”: The Early Seventeenth Century 1603-1660 (p.1235-1259)

Orientation (課程內容,評分標準說明)

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3/7(三) 8:10-10:00

Section 1.1.1 :The Metaphysical Poet 1 (John Donne 1572-1631)

John Donne (p. 1260-1262) and Donne’s Poems (p. 1263-1308)

3/8(四) 10:10-12:00

Section 1.1.1 :The Metaphysical Poet 1 (John Donne 1572-1631)

Donne’s Poems (p. 1263-1308)

Oral report 1

1.          Literary term: metaphysical poem

2.          Website articles: “Under the Sign of Donne,” “T. S. Eliot on Donne”) 

第3週

3/14(三) 8:10-10:00

Section 1.1.2 (3) :The Metaphysical Poets 2+3  (George Herbert 1593-1633 and Andrew Marvell 1621-1678)

George Herbert (p. 1605-1606) and Herbert’s Poems (p. 1607-1624)

Andrew Marvell (p. 1695-1697)

3/15(四) 10:10-12:00

Section 1.1.3:The Metaphysical Poet 3 (Andrew Marvell 1621-1678)

Andrew Marvell’s poems (p. 1697-1736)

Oral report 2

1.          Literary term: conceit

2.          The Temple as a religious poem

3.          3 metaphysical poets: comparison and contrast

第4週

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Section 1.2.1: Ben Jonson 1572-1637 

Ben Jonson (p. 1324-1326) and Jonson’s Play Volpone (p. 1334-1427)

3/22(四) 10:10-12:00

Section 1:The Early Seventeenth Century 1603-1660

Jonson’s Play Volpone (p. 1334-1427)

Oral report 3

1.          Literary term: black comedy

2.          Volpone’s characters, themes, dramatic scenes, metaphors

3.          Stephen Griffiths’s Article “Ben Jonson’s Volpone: Black Comedy from the Dawn of the Modern Era”

第5週

3/28(三) 8:10-10:00

Section 1.2.2: John Milton 1608-1674 

John Milton (p. 1785-1789) and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1830-2055)

3/29(四) 10:10-12:00

Section 1.2.2: John Milton 1608-1674 

Milton’s Paradise Lost (1830-2055)

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4/4(三) 8:10-10:00

Section 1.2.2: John Milton 1608-1674 

Milton’s Paradise Lost (1830-2055)

Oral report 4

1.          Literary term: pastoral elegy

2.          Paradise Lost’s characters, themes, metaphors

3.          Website article “Lecture on Milton's Paradise Lost”

4/5(四) 10:10-12:00

Holiday

第7週

4/11(三) 8:10-10:00

Section 1.3.1:Aphra Ben 1640-1689

Aphra Ben (p. 2178-2180) and Ben’s Novel Oroonoko (p. 2183-2226)

4/12(四) 10:10-12:00

Ben’s Novel Oroonoko (p. 2183-2226)

Oral report 5

1.          literary term: narrative voice, novel

2.          Oroonoko’s Characters, themes, metaphors

3.          Website article Ruth Nestvold’s “Aphra Behn and the Beginnings of a Female Narrative Voice”  

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4/18(三) 8:10-10:00

Section 1.3.2: Mary Wroth 1587-1651

Mary Wroth (p. 1451-1452) and Wroth’s Poems (p. 1453-1461)

4/19(四) 10:10-12:00

Wroth’s Poems (p. 1453-1461)

《英美文學精要問答》

 General Discussion and Review the Early Seventeenth Century

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