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— What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed. | — What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed. | ||
| − | |bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Journal ''Memoirs of Literature'' (1711). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=1293000201&SU=All&c=6&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW117345912&b0=memoirs+of+literature&tiPG=1 ECCO] | + | |bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Journal ''Memoirs of Literature'' (1711). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=1293000201&SU=All&c=6&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW117345912&b0=memoirs+of+literature&tiPG=1 ECCO]<hr> |
| − | + | Olaf Simons, "Literatur", eine kurze Begriffsgeschichte (2001), [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/simons/marteaus-europa/085-set.html p.85-95.] | |
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Revision as of 11:58, 31 August 2007
| Session | Date | Topic | Reading | Presentation |
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| 1 | Oct. 23, 2007 | Course Outline. | ||
| 2 | Oct. 30, 2007 | The Invention of History — Different views on the periodization of literature. |
Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (London, 1733). ECCO | |
| 3 | Nov. 6, 2007 | The Rise of Literature, Part I — What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed. |
The Journal Memoirs of Literature (1711). ECCO Olaf Simons, "Literatur", eine kurze Begriffsgeschichte (2001), p.85-95. |
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| 4 | Nov. 13, 2007 | The Rise of Literature, Part II — The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media. |
Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances [1670] (London, 1715 ECCO, Anglistik Wiki Oldenburg). Hyppolite Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863). Bartleby |
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| 5 | Nov. 20, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I — From Beowulf (750/1010) to Malory's La More Darthur (1485) |
Beowulf (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) Benjamin Slade's edition Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1471/1485) EEBO, Marteau Jehan de Mandeville, Voyages (c.1370/ printed edition 1496 EEBO/ 1705 ECCO). |
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| 6 | Nov. 27, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II — The "rise of the novel". |
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). Virginia e-text |
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| 7 | Dec. 4, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III — The modern novel, a field of intense debate |
Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988). | |
| 8 | Dec. 11, 2007 | Drama, Part I — From the middle ages to Shakespeare |
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603). EEBO, Marteau | |
| 9 | Dec. 18, 2007 | Drama, Part II — From the restoration to the present. |
Edward Bond, Saved (1965) | |
| 10 | Jan. 8, 2008 | Poetry — Once a broad field comrising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature. |
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Wikisource | |
| 11 | Jan. 15, 2008 | Literary Theory, Part I — The development of literature - is it simply that every period produces a literature reflecting its epochal frame of mind? |
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| 12 | Jan. 22, 2008 | Written Test | ||
| 13 | Jan. 29, 2008 | Feedback on Test and Look Ahead | ||
| 14 | Feb. 5, 2008 | Literary Theory, Part I — The ongoing and open discussion |
