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科目代碼	ENC1037	課程名稱	小說理論
英文名稱	Theory of the Novel
全/半年	半	必/選修	選修
學分數	3.0	每週授課時數	正課時數: 3.0 小時, 實驗時數: 0.0 小時
先修課程
課程簡介	The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the `theory of narrative` and with the history and development of the modern (and postmodern) European novel, and thus with various narrative genres (both traditional and contemporary). The focus will be on a close reading of the following, and on a discussion of the plots, characters, symbols, ideas and narrative techniques: (1) traditional myths and folk tales; (2) excerpts from classical (Homer`s Iliad and Odyssey) and medieval (Beowulf, Marie de France`s `Laustic`) epic and narrative poetry; (3) brief excerpts from the early (proto-postmodern) novels of Rabelais (mid-1500`s) and Cervantes (1605); (4) longer excerpts from what some call the first “novel,` Defoe`s travel-adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (1719); (5) Excerpts from Swift`s travel novel Gulliver`s Travels (1726); (6) Coetzee`s late-20th-century novel Foe (1986), a playful `rewriting` of Robinson Crusoe and an example of `historiographic metafiction`; (7) themes of gender, race, power, colonialism and “voice” in Defoe, Swift and Coetzee, and of (proto-) postmodernism in Swift and Coetzee.
課程目標		對應系所核心能力
1.　To extend students’ knowledge of the theory of narrative, which includes the theory of the novel.		碩士: 　1-1 具備深化專業知識範疇及其學術研究之能力
2.　To extend students’ knowledge of the pre-history and early history of the European “novel”		碩士: 　1-1 具備深化專業知識範疇及其學術研究之能力
3.　To stimulate students’ imagination and critical thinking ability.		碩士: 　3-2 具有獨立思考、發掘問題及批判之能力