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開課校系 -
中央大學 英美語文學研究所 |
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碩士班 |
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This course examines the function of narrative in helping Americans embrace a national liberal consen-sus in the nineteenth century based, not on the repub-lican ideal of rational debate, but on shared sentiments of the kind interpolated by mass reading culture. Beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Hannah Foster's sentimental novel, The Coquette, we will identify how reading helped Americans imag-ine and organize themselves as a democratic society. Readings by Benedict Anderson and Jurgen Habermas will provide the theoretical basis for discussion. In the second part of the course, we will read a variety of nineteenth-century narratives including stories, novels, and memoirs. |
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Course requirements are attendance and participation (25%), short writing assignments (25%), and a final paper (50%). |
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