2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1

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Session Date Topic Reading Presentation
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 Literature:

Olaf Simons, A short history of the literary debate (2001), Anglistik Oldenburg

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 Oldenburg).

Hyppolite Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863). Bartleby

Literature:

On Huet's Treatise de.wikipedia

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).
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 you may try to read the Shipman's tale [1]

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719). ECCO, Marteau

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?

12 Jan. 22, 2008 Written Test
13 Jan. 29, 2008 Feedback on Test and Look Ahead
14 Feb. 5, 2008 Literary Theory, Part II

— The ongoing and open discussion