2012-13 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature

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Please note: The BM7 module consists of

  • a seminar ("Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature"),
  • a tutorial ("Research Methods", offered in the current winter term) and
  • a combined lecture and seminar course ('2013 VL/Ü Key Concepts of Cultural Studies', offered in the coming summer term).

All students beginning in the winter term 2012/13 need to enroll for one of the tutorials called "Reasearch Methods", and a seminar in BM 7. Registration is via Stud.IP.

If you have already completed parts, but not the entire Basismodul in literary and/or cultural studies in previous semesters, please contact Michaela Koch.

On this page you will find detailed information on the eight courses of our seminar "Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature".

Courses

  • 3.02.030 - Anton Kirchhofer - Thu, 10:00-12:00
  • 3.02.031 - Martin Butler - Thu, 08:00-10:00
  • 3.02.032 - Christian Lassen - Thu, 12:00-14:00
  • 3.02.033 - Michaela Keck - Thu, 08:00 - 10:00
  • 3.02.034 - Michaela Keck - Thu, 10:00 - 12:00
  • 3.02.035 - Michaela Koch - Thu, 12:00-14:00
  • 3.02.036 - Daniel Sip Thu, 08:00 - 10:00
  • 3.02.037 - Michaela Koch - Thu, 14:00-16:00

Tutorials

  • 3.02.040 - Tutor: Birger Hansen, Wed, 18:00-19:00, S 2-205
  • 3.02.041 - Tutor: Sarah Göbert, Wed, 08:00-09:00, A14 1-113
  • 3.02.042 - Tutor: Levke Höpner, Fri, 09:00-10:00, A01 0-004
  • 3.02.043 - Tutor: Almke Ratjen, Thu, 08:00-09:00, V03 0-E002
  • 3.02.044 - Tutor: Tim Jentzen, Mon, 18:00-19:00, A01 0-009
  • 3.02.045 - Tutor: Tanja Withey, Mon, 09:00-10:00, A09 0-018
  • 3.02.046 - Tutor: Kim Henneke, Wed, 09:00-10:00, A14 1-113
  • 3.02.047 - Tutor: Sharif Niazi, Tue, 09:00-10:00, V03 0-E002

The seminar part of the Basismodul 7 focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering eight parallel courses. Please make sure that you are registered under ONE of these in Stud.IP and open a wiki account which will enable you to participate in online discussions.

All parallel courses have a common structure. The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice.

The "analytical tools" will be presented by the lecturers (on a handout) in each meeting. The additional reading from which these 'tools' are taken is not obligatory, and it can be done either before or after each session.

Both the texts and the other materials will be made accessible to you electronically (cf. the links below). In addition you will need to purchase two books:

  • William Shakespeare. Othello. Ed. E.A.J. Honigmann. Arden Shakespeare, third series. London: A&C Black, 1996.
  • Herman Melville. "Benito Cereno." Melville's Short Novels. Ed. Dan McCall. New York and London: Norton, 2002.

Course work: You will be asked to hand in three exercise assignments (max. 3 pages, due on TBA, TBA and TBA respectively), complete a Written Test, and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due on February 28). The assignments are to be formatted according to the style sheet, and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively, one of which will be tested at the end of the term (Written Test). For the Research Paper Outline you will need to find your own topic to work on and document the preliminary work (this includes finding an appropriate title, writing a paragraph on the state of the art of your problem and one that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents as well as a short bibliography).

Two useful links for all assignments:


Session One, October 25: Introduction

'Welcome

Texts

  1. Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in Truth" from Astrophil and Stella (1591)
  2. Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from Astrophil and Stella (1591)
  3. William Percy, "Sonnet II" from Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594)
  4. William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXXX" from The Sonnets (1609)
  5. George Herbert, "The Deniall" (1633)
  6. William Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet" (1827)
  7. Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing" (1867)
  8. Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
  9. Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925)
  10. e.e. Cummings, "Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind" (1944)

Skills and Activities

Preliminaries for seminar communication.

Session Two, November 1: Analysing Poetry I: Poetic Conventions, Rhyme and Metre

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Poetry Reader

Skills and Activities

Structural approach to poetry: communicative situation, themes, metrics and language. Acquire a basic checklist of what to look (first) for in a poem. Recapitulate the basics of metrics and rhyme patterns. Recognise the features of a particular genre and genre conventions: the sonnet.

Session Three, November 08: Analysing Poetry II: Figurative Speech

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Poetry Reader

Skills and Activities

Figurative language, interplay. Spot metaphors, similes, etc. the metric pattern and valorise the points where it is broken. Reinforce basic checklist of previous week. Analyse particular features of poetic language (figures of speech, metrical effects). 

    Assignment I: Poetry (distributed on Nov 08, due on Nov 15)

Session Four, November 15: Analysing Drama I: Rhetoric

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare Othello Act I

Skills and Activities

A speech from the Shakespeare play (1.3.76-200)

Session Five, November 22: Analysing Drama II: Dramatic Communication and Plot Structure

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare Othello

Skills and Activities

Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition.

Session Six, November 29: Analysing Drama III: Characterisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare Othello

Skills and Activities

Characters and Genre Aspects. 


   Assignment II: Drama (distributed on Nov 29, due on Dec 6)

Session Seven, December 06: Critical Debate and Literary Theory I

Material

Texts

Skills and Activities

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.

Session Eight, December 13: Analysing Fiction I: Narration and Focalisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Herman Melville, Benito Cereno

Skills and Activities

Narration, Focalization.

Session Nine, December 20: Analysing Fiction II: Characterisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Herman Melville, Benito Cereno

Skills and Activities

Characterisation. 

   Assignment III: Fiction; due on January 10

Session Ten, January 10: Analysing Fiction III: Close Reading

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Herman Melville, Benito Cereno

Skills and Activities

Close Reading

Session Eleven, January 17: Critical Debate and Literary Theory II

Material

Texts


Skills and Activities

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material. 


 Wednesday, January 23, 19:45-22:00, Film Screening: Anthony Minghella (dir.), The Talented Mr. Ripley. Room: A7-HS G

Session Twelve, January 24: Film Analysis: Themes and Techniques

Analytical Tools

Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia: Language, History, Theory. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art. An Introduction. 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009.
Korte, Helmut: Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse. Ein Arbeitsbuch. 3. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2004.

Texts

  • Anthony Minghella (dir.), The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Skills and Activities

Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [Fiction worksheet]


Session Thirteen, January 31: RPO Projects

Skills and Activities

Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects 


     Assignment 4: Research Paper Outline (due on February 28)

Session Fourteen, February 07: Recap

     Written Test: Feb, 09nd, 10-12 (s.t.!) a.m., HS 1 and HS 2
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