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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Arts
Course Code automatic registration
Theme・Subtitle R・L・スティーヴンソンのゴシック作品を読む
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.3・6402
Credit 2
Course Number EAL1313
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Automatic Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code AM016

【Course Objectives】

As outlined in the curriculum map, this seminar aims at cultivating students' reading comprehension skills in order to form a solid basis for their future studies, while at the same time providing instructions on how to make a coherent presentation of their literary analyses in both oral and written discussions. It is also hoped that students experience the pleasure of reading literature through attending this introductory course on the subject.

【Course Contents】

Even if you have never heard of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), you must have heard of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). This seminar focuses on this immensely popular novella and two other short stories that preceded it. Through close reading, we shall examine these texts multi-dimensionally. The questions include (but are not limited to), how does the author negotiate with the conventions of the Gothic fiction, how does he respond to the discourses of psychology, and how do the different forms of Stevenson's narratives function within a story? It is hoped that the class gives you the chance to experience the pleasure of reading literature, while also letting you acquire the basic skills for your future studies.
Students are required to make at least two presentations per semester: (1) summary and analysis of Stevenson’s text, and (2) summary of the related critical materials. It is also necessary to participate in the in-class activities. In addition, students are assigned to read Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890; 1891) in Japanese, and write a midterm essay on the novel.

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