Difference between revisions of "2022-23 MM The Literary Marketplace for MA Students"
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===Session 1: 27 October=== | ===Session 1: 27 October=== | ||
| − | *Judging a Book by Its Cover | + | *Judging a Book by Its Cover: Genre and Paratext |
*Example: Bonnie Garmus, ''Lessons in Chemistry'' (2022) | *Example: Bonnie Garmus, ''Lessons in Chemistry'' (2022) | ||
| + | *Reading: extracts from Matthews and Moody 2007; extracts from Squires 2007 on Genette and Genre | ||
===Session 2: 10 November=== | ===Session 2: 10 November=== | ||
| − | * | + | *Reading and Discussing Books: Professional and Other Readers |
| + | *Reading: Auguscik 2017 (chapter 2); Finkelstein and McCleerey 2005 (chapter 6) | ||
===Session 3: 24 November=== | ===Session 3: 24 November=== | ||
| − | * | + | *Marketing Books: Agents, Publishers, Printers, Booksellers |
| + | *Reading: Finkelstein and McCleerey 2005 (chapter 5); extracts from Thompson 2012 | ||
===Session 4: 8 December=== | ===Session 4: 8 December=== | ||
| − | *The | + | *Writing Books: The Birth, Death and Function of the Author |
| + | *Reading: Barthes (1967); Foucualt (1969); Finkelstein and McCleerey 2005 (chapter 4) | ||
===Session 5: 6 January=== | ===Session 5: 6 January=== | ||
| − | * | + | *Big Books and Small Presses: The Life Cycle of a Book, or Why Size Matters |
| + | *Auguscik 2017 ("attention profiles"); Adams and Barker 1993 on "life cycle"; van Rees and "trickledown"; Sapiro on "short term" and "long term" | ||
===Session 6: 19 January=== | ===Session 6: 19 January=== | ||
| − | * | + | *National Literatures or Global Market? Terms, Concepts, and Models of Literary Interaction |
| + | *Reading: Auguscik 2013; extracts from Auguscik 2017; Darnton 2007; Kees Van Rees and Gillis J. Dorleijn 2001; Bourdieu 1983 | ||
===Session 7: 2 February=== | ===Session 7: 2 February=== | ||
| − | * | + | *Book History 101: From Oral and Manuscript Cultures to the Print, Paperback and Digital Revolutions |
| + | *Reading: Finkelstein and McCleery 2005 (chapters 2 and 3); Henrickson 2020 | ||
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===Tools=== | ===Tools=== | ||
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*Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author? [1969]" ''The Foucault Reader''. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984. | *Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author? [1969]" ''The Foucault Reader''. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984. | ||
*Griswold, Wendy, Susanne Janssen, and Kees van Rees. “Conditions of Cultural Production and Reception: Introduction.” Poetics 26 (1999): 285-288. Print. | *Griswold, Wendy, Susanne Janssen, and Kees van Rees. “Conditions of Cultural Production and Reception: Introduction.” Poetics 26 (1999): 285-288. Print. | ||
| + | *Henrickson, Leah. "The Book in the Digitial Age: An Introduction." ''Publishing History'' 83 (2020): 7-18. | ||
*Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Print. | *Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Print. | ||
*Matthews, Nicole, and Nickianne Moody, eds. ''Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers and the Marketing of Books''. London: Ashgate, 2007. Print. [asl 435.2 CS 9885] | *Matthews, Nicole, and Nickianne Moody, eds. ''Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers and the Marketing of Books''. London: Ashgate, 2007. Print. [asl 435.2 CS 9885] | ||
*Sapiro, Gisèle. “The Literary Field between the State and the Market.” Poetics 31 (2003): 441-64. Print. | *Sapiro, Gisèle. “The Literary Field between the State and the Market.” Poetics 31 (2003): 441-64. Print. | ||
*Squires, Claire. Marketing Literature. The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print. | *Squires, Claire. Marketing Literature. The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print. | ||
| − | *Thompson, John B. Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2012. Print. | + | *Thompson, John B. ''Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century''. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2012. Print. |
*Todd, Richard. Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Print. | *Todd, Richard. Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Print. | ||
*Van Rees, C.J. “How a Literary Work Becomes a Masterpiece: On the Threefold Selection Practised by Literary Criticism.” Poetics 12 (1983): 397-417. Print. | *Van Rees, C.J. “How a Literary Work Becomes a Masterpiece: On the Threefold Selection Practised by Literary Criticism.” Poetics 12 (1983): 397-417. Print. | ||
Revision as of 12:52, 26 September 2022
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- Modul: ang902 - Modul zur individuellen Profilbildung
- Lecturer: Anna Auguscik
- Course: The Literary Marketplace for MA Students
- Time: Thursday 16-18h, biweekly
- Venue: A6 2-212
- Course Description: Based on a reading of Bonnie Garmus's bestselling novel Lessons in Chemistry (2022), this course aims at introducing MA students to the history and contemporary practices of the literary marketplace. We will expand the notions of books familiar in literary and cultural studies by those in other disciplines such as book history and publishing studies.
Please, buy and read the following novel:
- Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, London: Doubleday, 2022. If possible, use the time until the beginning of term to order (and, ideally, immerse yourself in the reading of) the novel. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.
- Course Requirements
- Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and a (oral/)written contribution in the form of a portfolio, based on the topic of the seminar.
- As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:
Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
- regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
- Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten)
- Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars.
Contents
Session 1: 27 October
- Judging a Book by Its Cover: Genre and Paratext
- Example: Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry (2022)
- Reading: extracts from Matthews and Moody 2007; extracts from Squires 2007 on Genette and Genre
Session 2: 10 November
- Reading and Discussing Books: Professional and Other Readers
- Reading: Auguscik 2017 (chapter 2); Finkelstein and McCleerey 2005 (chapter 6)
Session 3: 24 November
- Marketing Books: Agents, Publishers, Printers, Booksellers
- Reading: Finkelstein and McCleerey 2005 (chapter 5); extracts from Thompson 2012
Session 4: 8 December
- Writing Books: The Birth, Death and Function of the Author
- Reading: Barthes (1967); Foucualt (1969); Finkelstein and McCleerey 2005 (chapter 4)
Session 5: 6 January
- Big Books and Small Presses: The Life Cycle of a Book, or Why Size Matters
- Auguscik 2017 ("attention profiles"); Adams and Barker 1993 on "life cycle"; van Rees and "trickledown"; Sapiro on "short term" and "long term"
Session 6: 19 January
- National Literatures or Global Market? Terms, Concepts, and Models of Literary Interaction
- Reading: Auguscik 2013; extracts from Auguscik 2017; Darnton 2007; Kees Van Rees and Gillis J. Dorleijn 2001; Bourdieu 1983
Session 7: 2 February
- Book History 101: From Oral and Manuscript Cultures to the Print, Paperback and Digital Revolutions
- Reading: Finkelstein and McCleery 2005 (chapters 2 and 3); Henrickson 2020
Tools
- Handout Literature & Representation
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture and Representation
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Discourse
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Identity
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Media
- Handout Traditions in our discourse about literature
- Handout (Non-)literary texts
- Handout Excerpt
- Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies
Primary Reading
- see above
Further Reading
- Adams, Thomas R., and Nicolas Barker. “A New Model for the Study of the Book.” A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. The Clark Lectures, 1986-1987. Ed. Nicolas Barker. British Library Studies in the History of the Book. London: British Library, 1993. Print.
- Auguscik, A. "Lost in Translation: Literaturpreise im nationalen Literaturbetrieb". Literaturbetrieb. Zur Poetik einer Produktionsgemeinschaft. Eds. Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder. Paderborn: Fink, 2013. 97-112.
- Auguscik, Anna. Prizing Debate: The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK. Bielefeld: transcript, 2017.
- Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author. [1967]" Image, Music, Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. London: Fontana, 1977.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Field of Cultural Production, Or: The Economic World Reversed.” Poetics 12 (1983): 311-56. Print.
- Clark, Giles. Inside Book Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2001. Print.
- Darnton, Robert. “What Is the History of Books?” Daedalus 111.3 (1982): 65-83. Print.
- Darnton, Robert. “What Is the History of Books? Revisited.” Modern Intellectual History 4.3 (2007): 495–508.
- English, James F. The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2005. Print.
- Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery. An introduction to book history. New York: Routledge, 2005. [bub 278 CT 2009,2007]
- Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author? [1969]" The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
- Griswold, Wendy, Susanne Janssen, and Kees van Rees. “Conditions of Cultural Production and Reception: Introduction.” Poetics 26 (1999): 285-288. Print.
- Henrickson, Leah. "The Book in the Digitial Age: An Introduction." Publishing History 83 (2020): 7-18.
- Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Print.
- Matthews, Nicole, and Nickianne Moody, eds. Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers and the Marketing of Books. London: Ashgate, 2007. Print. [asl 435.2 CS 9885]
- Sapiro, Gisèle. “The Literary Field between the State and the Market.” Poetics 31 (2003): 441-64. Print.
- Squires, Claire. Marketing Literature. The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.
- Thompson, John B. Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2012. Print.
- Todd, Richard. Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Print.
- Van Rees, C.J. “How a Literary Work Becomes a Masterpiece: On the Threefold Selection Practised by Literary Criticism.” Poetics 12 (1983): 397-417. Print.
- Van Rees, Kees, and Gillis J. Dorleijn. “The Eighteenth-Century Literary Field in Western Europe: The Interdependence of Material and Symbolic Production and Consumption.” Poetics 28 (2001): 331-48. Print.
- Varela-Zapata, Jesús. “Literary Prizes and the Institutionalization of Postcolonial Literatures in English.” Pre- and Post-Publication Itineraries of the Contemporary Novel in English. Eds. Vanessa Guignery and François Gallix. Paris: Éditions Publibook Université, 2007. 211-21. Print.
- Verdaasdonk, Hugo. “Social and Economic Factors in the Attribution of Literary Quality.” Poetics 12.4-5 (1983): 383-95. Print.
