2017-18 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature

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Please note: The ang070 module consists of

  • a seminar (S/Ü "Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature", offered in the current winter term),
  • a tutorial (TUT "Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature" [aka "Research Methods"], offered in the current winter term),
  • a seminar (S/Ü "Key Concepts in Cultural Studies", offered in the following summer term), and
  • a lecture (VL "Historical Background and Critical Concepts", offered in the following summer term).

All students beginning in the winter term 2017/18 need to enroll in one of the tutorials called TUT "Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature" (aka "Reasearch Methods"), AND in a seminar S/Ü "Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature" in ang070. Registration is via Stud.IP.

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

Seminars

Tutorials

  • 3.02.055 - Tutorin: Julia Janßen - Thu, 18:00-20:00 Room: A05 1-160
  • 3.02.056a - Tutor: Simon Freisem - Tue, 18:00-19:00 Room: A14 1-114
  • 3.02.056b - Tutor: Simon Freisem - Tue, 19:00-20:00 Room: A14 1-114
  • 3.02.057 - Tutorin: Clara Sophie Schenck - Wed, 18:00-20:00 Room: S2-205
  • 3.02.058a - Tutor: Jascha Kattmann - Thu, 18:00-19:00 Room: A11 0-018
  • 3.02.058b - Tutor: Jascha Kattmann - Thu, 19:00-20:00 Room: A11 0-018
  • 3.02.059 - Tutorin: Alena Jansen - Mon, 08:00-10:00 Room: A11 0-018
  • 3.02.060 - Tutor: Kim Ole Henneke - Tue, 08:00-10:00 Room: V03 0-E202
  • 3.02.061a - Tutorin: Myriam Metry - Thu, 09:00-10:00 Room: A05 0-055
  • 3.02.061b - Tutorin: Myriam Metry - Thu, 08:00-09:00 Room: A05 0-055
  • 3.02.062 - Tutorin: Miriam Goy - Fri, 08:00-10:00 Room: S2-206
  • 3.02.063 - Tutorin: Rebecca Käpernick - Fri, 08:00-10:00 Room: A14 0-030

This seminar is part of the Basismodul ang070 and focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering ten parallel courses. Please make sure that you are registered under ONE of these in Stud.IP.

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:

  • Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri. The Arden Shakespeare, third series. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
  • Wells, H.G. The Time Machine: An Invention. Ed. Stephen Arata. New York, NY: Norton, 2008.

Course work: You will be asked to write three ungraded exercise assignments (max. 3 pages) and produce a Research Paper Outline 'Plus' (RPOplus), consisting of a research paper outline and a problem-oriented sample analysis (6 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. For the RPOplus you will need to find your own topic to work on, 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) and write up a formal and genre-specific analysis of a passage that fits in with the research question and thesis statement put forward in your RPO.

Two useful links for all assignments:


Session One, October 19/20: Introduction

Welcome

Analytical Tools

Texts

Skills and Activities

Preliminaries for seminar communication.

Session Two, October 26/27: Analysing Poetry I: Poetic Conventions, Rhyme and Metre

Analytical Tools

Texts

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 02/03: Analysing Poetry II: Figurative Speech

Analytical Tools

Texts

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).

Session Four, November 09/10: Analysing Poetry III: From Close Reading to Problem-Oriented Textual Analysis

Analytical Tools

Texts

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

    Sample Solution Assignment I: Poetry

Session Five, November 16/17: Analysing Drama I: Rhetoric

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Skills and Activities

A speech from the Shakespeare play

Session Six, November 23/24: Analysing Drama II: Dramatic Communication and Plot Structure

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Skills and Activities

Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition.

Session Seven, November 30/December 01: Analysing Drama III: Characterisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Skills and Activities

Characters and Genre Aspects. 

[Assignment II: Drama]

[Sample solution assignment II: Drama]

Session Eight, December 07/08: Critical Debate and Literary Theory I

Material

Texts

Homework

  • What kind of RPO+ would precede this kind of secondary text? While reading the text, deduce and reconstruct the parts relevant to an RPO+: (1) research problem, (2) thesis statement, (3) state of research, (4) argumentative structure.

Skills and Activities

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.

Session Nine, December 14/15: Analysing Fiction I: Narration and Focalisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Skills and Activities

Narration, Focalization.

Session Ten, December 21/22: Analysing Fiction II: Characterisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Skills and Activities

Characterisation.

Session Eleven, January 11/12: Analysing Fiction III: From Close Reading to Problem-Oriented Textual Analysis

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Skills and Activities

Close Reading 

  [Assignment III: Fiction]

  [Sample Solution Assignment III: Fiction]

Session Twelve, January 18/19: Critical Debate and Literary Theory II

Material

Texts

Skills and Activities

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.

Session Thirteen, January 25/26: Recap

Assignments Poetry, Drama, Fiction

Session Fourteen, February 01/02: RPO Projects

Skills and Activities

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

      [Assignment IV: RPOplus
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