| Academic Year |
2025Year |
School/Graduate School |
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities Program |
| Lecture Code |
WMBP8002 |
Subject Classification |
Specialized Education |
| Subject Name |
世界英語圏文学批評演習Ａ |
Subject Name
（Katakana） |
セカイエイゴケンブンガクヒヒョウエンシュウA |
Subject Name in
English |
Seminar on Literary Criticism on Literature in English A |
| Instructor |
CHEYNE PETER ROBERT |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
チェイニー ピーター ロバート |
| Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
1st-Year, Second Semester, 4Term |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(4T) Fri3-6：EDU K217 |
| Lesson Style |
Seminar |
Lesson Style
(More Details) |
Face-to-face |
| ・The classes will consist mainly of lectures on and discussion of the poems and critical essays, and discussion of related topics. |
| Credits |
2.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
4 |
Language of Instruction |
E
:
English |
| Course Level |
6
:
Graduate Advanced
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| Course Area（Area） |
23
:
Arts and Humanities |
| Course Area（Discipline） |
05
:
Literature |
| Eligible Students |
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| Keywords |
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| Special Subject for Teacher Education |
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Special Subject |
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Class Status
within Educational
Program
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Criterion referenced
Evaluation
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline |
The purpose of the course is to study a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century world poetry (with some essays) in English, with a main focus on American poetry. |
| Class Schedule |
lesson1
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalism, and ‘Nature’ (1834)
lesson2
Emerson’s ‘transparent eye-ball’
lesson3
Emily Dickinson and I’m Nobody, Who Are You?’ ([c.1861] 1891)
lesson4
Dickinson and ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’ ([1861] 1891) and ‘The Brain is Wider Than the Sky’ ([1862 or 1863] 1891
lesson5
John Muir, environmentalism, nature writing, and ‘Stickeen’ ([1897] 1909)
lesson6
Ezra Pound, ‘In A Station of the Metro’ (1913), ‘Statement of Being’, and Canto LXXI, Pisan Cantos (1940)
lesson7
Pound, Canto LXXI
lesson8
T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (1915)
lesson9
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land’ (1922)
lesson10
Eliot, The Waste Land
lesson11
Eliot, Four Quartets (1941)
lesson12
Eliot, Four Quartets
lesson13
Robert Frost, ‘Fire and Ice’ (1920) and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ (1923)
lesson14
Wallace Stevens, ‘The Snow Man’ (1921)
lesson15
Theodore Roethke, ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ (1942) and ‘The Waking’ (1953)
There will be spot quizzes and 3 essays |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
Given by teacher. |
PC or AV used in
Class,etc. |
Text, Handouts, Audio Materials, Visual Materials |
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| Learning techniques to be incorporated |
Discussions, Quizzes/ Quiz format, Post-class Report |
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
Always make time to read the texts in advance of the class! |
| Requirements |
None in particular |
| Grading Method |
・Quizzes ・3 essays |
| Practical Experience |
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| Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it |
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| Message |
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| Other |
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Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. |