| 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 |
WMBP8501 |
Subject Classification |
Specialized Education |
| Subject Name |
英語圏文学作品演習Ａ |
Subject Name
（Katakana） |
エイゴケンブンガクサクヒンエンシュウA |
Subject Name in
English |
Seminar on Fiction in English A |
| Instructor |
PETER CHEYNE |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
ピーター チェイニ |
| Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
1st-Year, First Semester, 2Term |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(2T) Fri1-4：Faculty Office |
| Lesson Style |
Seminar |
Lesson Style
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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 |
5
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Graduate Basic
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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 Objectives
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Students will write discursive essays on twentieth-century (post-war) American short stories, novellas, and novels and engage with peer-reviewed critical analyses. |
| Class Schedule |
Lesson 1: John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (1945), excerpt 1. Online text: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207559/page/n9/mode/2up
Lesson 2: Steinbeck, Cannery Row, excerpt 2
Lesson 3: Steinbeck, Cannery Row, excerpt 3
Lesson 4: Steinbeck, Cannery Row, excerpt 4.
Lesson 5: Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find (1953). Online text: https://web.archive.org/web/20180701070545/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/goodman.html
Lesson 6: Stanley Renner, ‘Secular Meaning in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"’, College Literature, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 123–32. Online text: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25111435
Lesson 7: J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (1961), excerpt 1.
Lesson 8: Salinger, ‘Franny’, excerpt 2.
Lesson 9: Salinger, ‘Franny’, excerpt 3.
Lesson 10: Salinger, ‘Zooey’, excerpt 1.
Lesson 11: Salinger, ‘Zooey’, excerpt 2.
Lesson 12: Salinger, ‘Zooey’, excerpt 3.
Lesson 13: Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), excerpt 1.
Lesson 14: Dick, Do Androids …?, excerpt 2.
Lesson 15: Dick, Do Androids …?, excerpt 3.
essays, quizzes, presentations |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (1945), excerpt 1. Online text: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207559/page/n9/mode/2up
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find (1953). Online text: https://web.archive.org/web/20180701070545/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/goodman.html
Stanley Renner, ‘Secular Meaning in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"’, College Literature, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 123–32. Online text: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25111435
Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Please buy book or e-book
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Please buy book or e-book |
PC or AV used in
Class,etc. |
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| Learning techniques to be incorporated |
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Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
Read the text before the class and take notes during class. |
| Requirements |
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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. |