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1  09/19
2  09/26

從流行歌曲看美國之夢
An American Songbag

l          Woody Gurthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” 1940s

l          Bob Dylan: “Blowing in the Wind,”

l          Bruce Springsteen: “Born in the USA” 1984

l          Leonard Cohen: “Democracy”  1992

ppt CD

3  10/03

自然書寫

l          Henry David Thoreau, Walden 梭羅《華爾騰》(湖濱散記)

A、   2 我住在哪裡，靠什麼維生

B、   3 讀書 99

C、   4 聲音 110

D、   5 孤獨 127

ppt, film

6  10/24

自然書寫

l          Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac 李奧帕德《沙郡年紀》

A、   一月

B、   四月

C、   亞利桑那州和新墨西哥州

7   10/31

 放假

8  11/07  

l          Walt Whitman惠特曼詩選

l          Emily Dickinson, 狄金生詩選
mp3 voice

1.      Emily Dickinson “This is my letter to the world” 441

2.      Emily Dickinson “The Soul selects her own society” 303

3.      Emily Dickinson “I'm nobody! Who are you?” 288

4.      Emily Dickinson “There's a certain slant of light” 258

5.      Emily Dickinson “I felt a funeral in my brain” 280

ppt

• Watch a video interpretation of "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Yina Liang  (a  student)

• The Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson (etext at Bartleby.com): You can brwose from subjects or from the title index.

• Dickinson Electronic Archive

• 　Favorite poems on video (including some of the poems we discussed in the course)

9  11/14
期中考週

l          Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” 歐文 〈李普大夢〉

l          Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” 霍桑 〈我的親戚，墨里納少校〉

10 11/21 

l          Edgar Allen Poe, 愛倫波
"The Raven" ( 詩) "The Raven"

“The Black Cat, ”〈黑貓〉，

“William Wilson” 〈威廉•威爾生〉

Ppt,
otr (mp3)

11 11/28

l          Robert Frost, 佛洛斯特詩選
"Mending Wall"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Stopping by Woods on  a Snowy Evening"

ppt

Watch video interpretation of Frost's most famous poem from the website [Favorite poems on video]:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(interpreted by Jessie Alpaugh
     Student
     Berkeley, CA)

12  12/05

Imagists 意象主義

Ezra Pound

H. D.

William Carlos Williams

Carl Sandburg

Wallace Stevens

ppt

13  12/12

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” 
吉爾曼 〈黃色壁紙〉

ppt
mp3

14  12/19

William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
佛克那 〈給愛密莉的玫瑰花〉

ppt

15  12/26

Multicultural America in Poetry 從詩歌看美國多元文化現象

Gwendolyn Brooks

Paula Gunn Allen, “Pocahontas to Her Husband, John Rolfe”

Robert Frost, “The Vanishing Red”

Aurora Levins Morales, “Child of Americas”

Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It”

Dudley Randall, “ The Melting Pot”

Jimmy Santiago Baca, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans”

Nila Northsun, “Moving Camp Too Far”

ppt

16  01/02

從小說看美國多元文化現象
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”

ppt

17  01/09

Simon J. Ortiz, “Men on the Moon”

Sherman Alexie, “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the –Fire”

ppt

18  01/16
期末考週

Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals (film and screenplay)

film