The Problems and Solutions of Humanities

Every Thursday evening 18:00-19:30, classroom 2202

　　Dr. Yang Huilin：

• Sept. 4 and 11,  The Westernized Chinese Academia
• Oct. 23,  The Power of Language
• Dec. 25, The Paradigms and their Shared Concerns in the Study of Humanities　

　　Dr. Dwight Hopkins：

• Sept. 18, Judaism
• Sept. 25, Hellenic Civilization
• Oct. 9, Roman Civilization
• Oct. 16,  The Enlightenment Movement and its Influence

Dr. Sharon Y. Kim

• Oct. 30,  Shakespeare, Pericles
• Nov. 6, Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Nov.13, Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Part I)
• Nov.20, Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Part II and III)

　　Dr. Chloe Starr：

• Nov. 27,  Narrator and Narratology
• Dec. 4,Characterization
• Dec. 11,Text and Edition
• Dec. 18, Reading Gender as Narrative

1. Recent Research Activities.doc

2. Memory and Landscape.doc

3. Zhang Xianliang.doc

　　Required readings (Dr. Sharon Kim):

1. Sir Philip Sidney, A Defense of Poetry
2. Stephen Greenblatt, “Introduction: the Power of Forms in the Renaissance”
3.  Harold Bloom, “Shakespeare’s Universalism”, Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human
4. Virginia Woolf, “Modern Novels”, The Essays of Virginia Woolf, edited by Andrew McNeillie, vol. 4, London: Hogarth Press, 1994
5. Virginia Woolf, Excerpts from Diary, edited by Ann Bell, 5 vols. London: Hogarth Press, 1977-1984
6. T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and Inpidual Talent”
7. Toril Moi, “Introduction: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, New York: Methuen, 1985

　　Recommended readings (Dr. Yang Huilin):

1.  Roland Barthes, On Popular Theater
2. Maurice Blanchot, The Novel, Work of Bad Faith
3. Gérard Genette, Mallarmé’s Happiness?
4. Michel Foucault, Richard’s Mallarmé
5. Jacques Derrida, Mallarmé
6. Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Mallarmé
7. Roland Barthes, Writing the Event
8.  Pierre Bourdieu, Commitment and Autonomy