及後现代时期(1901起).PDF

Curriculum for Spring 2015: Elective Courses  Advanced Literature and Culture Courses LC001. English Literature IV: Modern and Postmodern (1901-present) [英國文學（四）︰現代 及後現代時期（ 1901起）] 3 credits Prof. Cecilia Liu <cecilia@.tw > For Sophomores and above Class size: 40 Prerequisite: Introduction to Literature Overview: In this course we will read the works of major authors classified by the term “modern” and “postmodern” in the twentieth century English literature. You should relax and let the words and images form impression in your minds, not force meaning out of them. In your reading, you might try to assume the mood that Woolf describes in The Mark on the Wall: "I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts" (Norton 2146). However, you should be aware that postmodern texts consciously disorient the reader, shaking off the soft blanket of chronological, straightforward storytelling in favor of a harsher, more forbidding narrative style. The reader is led through multiple shifts in consciousness, chronology, and geography, often without a chapter break, let alone a comment like "Fifty years earlier," to guide the way. Postmodern means so many things to so many people, and it has a slightly different meaning in nearly every discipline, from art and architecture to fashion and technology. For that reason, I'd like to give an overview of what to expect when encountering