| Academic Year |
2026Year |
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 |
PETER CHEYNE |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
ピーター チェイニ |
| Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
1st-Year, Second Semester, 4Term |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(4T) Fri3-6：Faculty Office |
| Lesson Style |
Seminar |
Lesson Style
(More Details) |
Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive) |
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| Credits |
2.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
4 |
Language of Instruction |
E
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English |
| Course Level |
6
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Graduate Advanced
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| Course Area（Area） |
23
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Arts and Humanities |
| Course Area（Discipline） |
05
:
Literature |
| Eligible Students |
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Class Status
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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 |
Lesson 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalism, and ‘Nature’ (1834)
Lesson 2: Emerson’s ‘transparent eye-ball’
Lesson 3: Presentations: Emerson
Lesson 4: Emily Dickinson and I’m Nobody, Who Are You?’ ([c.1861] 1891)
Lesson 5: Dickinson and ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’ ([1861] 1891) and ‘The Brain is Wider Than the Sky’ ([1862 or 1863] 1891
Lesson 6: Presentations: Dickinson
Lesson 7: John Muir, environmentalism, nature writing, and ‘Stickeen’ ([1897] 1909)
Lesson 9: Presentations: Muir
Lesson 10: Ezra Pound, ‘In A Station of the Metro’ (1913), ‘Statement of Being’
Lesson 11: Presentations: Pound
Lesson 12: H. D. (Hilda Dolittle), ‘Oread’ and ‘Heat’
Lesson 13: Presentations: H. D.
Lesson 14: T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ (1915)
Lesson 15: Presentations: ‘Prufrock’ |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
Given by teacher. |
PC or AV used in
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Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
Read the texts in advance of the class and take notes during class. |
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| Grading Method |
Essays, quizzes, presentations |
| Practical Experience |
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Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. |