輔仁大學九十六學年度課程綱要
課程名稱 中文： 美、義戰後文學、文化比較
英文：Comparative Literature and Culture – Italy meets U.S.A
開課時段 Friday 15:40~17:40 學分數 上： 2 下：
授課教師 Mei Chen Tseng 人 數 20 （建議人數 20 人）
開課對象 Junior and Senior students from the English Department
課程目標Course Overview: This course is an experimental research on comparison of the culture and literature between Europe (Italy) and U.S.A during the time of WW I. and WW II. Italian Literature of this critical time was full of sympathy to the land and people. Surprisingly, Despite of their geographic and political differences we could still find a lot of interesting similarities in American and Italian literature due to the writers’ sensibility to the general issues of human kinds.
I would like to make this course a brief introduction of the era which is not so well known and felt by the students of Taiwan, yet creates a very important influence on western culture and society. Upon completing this course students could have a general idea on the society and mentality of both Europeans an Americans at that time and therefore be able to associate different ideas and see things from new angles.
課程內容 syllabus (The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary.):
9/19/08 Course introduction and communication
9/26/08 Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 –1909) meets Grazie Deledda (1871–1936) woman writers and their local color
10/03/08 Sarah Orne Jewett meets Grazie Deledda
Italy-Sardegna vs. U.S.A.-South Berwick, Maine Screening: film on Sardegna and Maine
10/17/08 Sarah Orne Jewett meets Grazie Deledda
“Cenere (Ashes) ” vs. “A White Heron”
Readings: Cenere (selected text) and “A White Heron”
Screening: Cenere of Febo Mari and Arturo Ambrosio with Eleonora Duse (1916, 31') by ENCIERRO
10/24/08 Eliot(1888–1965) and Frost (1874 –1963) meets
Ungaretti (1888–1970) and Montale (1896—1981)
Sense of lost and Italian HermetismGeneral introduction on Eliot, Frost, Ungaretti and Montale 10/31/08 Eliot and Frost meets Ungaretti and Montale
the disillusionment of the post-war generation: “The Waste Land” and
“Ossi di Seppia (bones of sepia)”
11/07/08 Eliot and Frost meets Ungaretti and Montale
Readings: “The Road not taken” and “Un grido e Paesaggi”
11/14/08 Midterm
11/21/08 Bret Harte (1836 –1902) meets Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 –1975) Personalities, criticism and legacy
Reading: The Society upon the Stanislaus of Bret Harte 11/28/08 Bret Harte meets Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screening: La terra vista dalla luna by Pasolini Group discussion on low-life characters portrayed 12/05/08 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) meets
Gabriele D’annunzio
(1863 – 1938) Realism in U.S.A and ItalyInfluence on the following writers
12/12/08 Fitzgerald meets D’annunzio Screening: The Great Gatsby
Reading: The Great Gatsby (selected text) 12/19/08 Fitzgerald meets D’annunzio
Screening: L’innocente
Reading: L’innocente (selected text) 12/26/08 Hemingway meets Primo Levi
Vision of the War
1/02/09 Hemingway meets Primo Levi Screening: “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
1/09/09 Hemingway meets Primo Levi Reading: If This Is a Man (selected text) Group discussion
1/16/09 Final
課程要求Requirements and Grading ： Group report and discussion- 30%
Mid-term- 30%
Final- 40%
註：英文字體使用Times New Roman；中文字體使用標楷體。字體大小為 14
