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The second part of our Basismodule focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering seven parallel courses (supported by tutorials). Please make sure that you are registered in Stud.IP both for the main page of the module and for your individual course.
 
The second part of our Basismodule focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering seven parallel courses (supported by tutorials). Please make sure that you are registered in Stud.IP both for the main page of the module and for your individual course.
 
All parallel courses have a common structure, but each course may differ in emphasis. You will find information relating to all the courses on this page, and the pages for the individual courses for information on your course:
 
All parallel courses have a common structure, but each course may differ in emphasis. You will find information relating to all the courses on this page, and the pages for the individual courses for information on your course:
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2006-07 BM1 Introduction to Literature, Part 1
  
 
* [[2007 BM1-A Introduction to Literature, Part 2|2007 BM1-A Olaf Simons, Mo 14-16]]
 
* [[2007 BM1-A Introduction to Literature, Part 2|2007 BM1-A Olaf Simons, Mo 14-16]]
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:* [[2007 BM1T-A Introduction to Literature, Part 2|John Alistair Kühne, Mo 8-10, A10 1-121a]]
 
:* [[2007 BM1T-A Introduction to Literature, Part 2|John Alistair Kühne, Mo 8-10, A10 1-121a]]
 
:* [[2007 BM1T-B Introduction to Literature, Part 2|Christina Stindl, Fr 12-14, A5 1-159]]
 
:* [[2007 BM1T-B Introduction to Literature, Part 2|Christina Stindl, Fr 12-14, A5 1-159]]
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== Office hours for Research Paper Outline ==
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* [[Research Paper Outline Appointments|Research Paper Outline Appointments]]
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* [[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 4: Research Paper Outline|Research Paper Outline guidelines]]
  
 
The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice. You should make sure to read at least those texts that are dealt with in your course.
 
The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice. You should make sure to read at least those texts that are dealt with in your course.
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In addition you will need to purchase the Shakespeare play read in your course in an Arden Edition (ca. 14 EUR at the CvO bookshop).
 
In addition you will need to purchase the Shakespeare play read in your course in an Arden Edition (ca. 14 EUR at the CvO bookshop).
  
Course work: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (in week 4, 7 and 10 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (due August 15 2007). The assignments are limited to a max. of 2-3 pages of text, formatted according to the style sheet, and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively. 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 that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents and a short bibliography).
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[[BM1 Introduction to Literature, Aims and Requirements|Course work]]: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (in week 4, 7 and 10 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (due August 15 2007). The assignments are limited to a max. of 2-3 pages of text, formatted according to the style sheet, and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively. 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 that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents and a short bibliography).
  
 
Tutorials will help you to practise your analysis skills and support you in doing your assignments and Research Paper Outline.
 
Tutorials will help you to practise your analysis skills and support you in doing your assignments and Research Paper Outline.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''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 1 given]
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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 4: Rhetoric==
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'''Assignments'''
  
'''Analytical Tools'''
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[[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 1|Assignment 1]] given
  
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==Session 4: Rhetoric==
  
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1979_plett__einfuehrung.pdf Plett 3-22, 102-105] [[Plett, Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse, Hamburg 1971|Excerpt from Plett]]
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'''Analytical Tools'''
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1979_plett__einfuehrung.pdf Plett 3-22, 102-105]  
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*[[Plett, Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse, Hamburg 1971|Excerpt from Plett]]
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*Handout: [[Rhetoric]]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
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[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147]
 
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147]
[[Pfister, Das Drama, München 1977|Excerpt from Pfister]]
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[[Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (1977)|Excerpt from Pfister]]
  
 
Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]]
 
Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]]
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Distinguish modes of characterisation [assignment 2 given]
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Distinguish modes of characterisation [[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 2|assignment 2]] given
  
 
==Session 7: Drama and Fiction==
 
==Session 7: Drama and Fiction==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1705_aristotle__poetry_dacier.pdf Aristotle, The Art of Poetry, trans. Dacier (1705)]
*Aristotle, Poetics
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*[[Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)|Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)]]
*[[Huet, Treatise of Romances (1672)|Huet, Pierre Daniel, ''Treatise of Romances'' [1670] (1672)]]
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*[[Boileau, Art of Poetry (1687)|Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, ''Art of Poetry'' (1687)]]
 
*[[Boileau, Art of Poetry (1687)|Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, ''Art of Poetry'' (1687)]]
  
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[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
 
[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
  
Handout: [[Focalisation and Narration]]
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Handout: [[Narratology]]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
  
 
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1835_hawthorne__brown.pdf Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown (1835)." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.] (Source not noted on the pdf-scan. Please add source yourselves.)
 
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1835_hawthorne__brown.pdf Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown (1835)." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.] (Source not noted on the pdf-scan. Please add source yourselves.)
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1922_mansfield__voyage.pdf Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage." ''The Garden Party and Other Stories''. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922. 184-198.]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1922_mansfield__the_voyage.pdf Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage." ''The Garden Party and Other Stories''. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922. 168-181.]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/owlcr11.txt Ambrose Bierce. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." (first published??) -- Gutenberg.org Etext]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1909_bierce__occurrence_at_owl_creek_bridge.pdf Ambrose Bierce. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."]
 
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_coover__magic_poker.pdf Robert Coover. "Magic Poker." ''Pricksongs and Descants. Fictions'' (1969). New York: New American Library, 1970.]
 
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_coover__magic_poker.pdf Robert Coover. "Magic Poker." ''Pricksongs and Descants. Fictions'' (1969). New York: New American Library, 1970.]
  
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[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan 59-71]
 
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan 59-71]
  
Handout: [[Characterisation]]
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Handout: [[Narratology]]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
  
*Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown [1835]." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1835_hawthorne__brown.pdf Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown (1835)." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.] (Source not noted on the pdf-scan. Please add source yourselves.)
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1922_mansfield__voyage.pdf Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage." ''The Garden Party and Other Stories''. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922. 184-198.]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1922_mansfield__the_voyage.pdf Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage." ''The Garden Party and Other Stories''. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922. 168-181.]
 
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_coover__magic_poker.pdf Robert Coover. "Magic Poker." ''Pricksongs and Descants. Fictions'' (1969). New York: New American Library, 1970.]
 
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_coover__magic_poker.pdf Robert Coover. "Magic Poker." ''Pricksongs and Descants. Fictions'' (1969). New York: New American Library, 1970.]
  
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==Session 10: Film==
 
==Session 10: Film==
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[[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 3: Narratives|Assignment 3]] given.
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
  
Pulp Fiction
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[[Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)]]
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
  
[[Mandeville, Voyages (1705)|John Mandeville, ''Voyages'' [c. 1360] (1705)]]
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*[[Mandeville, Voyages (1705)|John Mandeville, ''Voyages'' [c. 1360] (1705)]]
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*[[Sardar and Van Loon, Cultural Studies (1999)|Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon, ''Introducing Cultural Studies'' (Cambridge: Icon Books, 1999), 106-109.]]
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
  
Orientalist GEO, Time Life, Palestine, India etc.
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[[Toni Hagen, Afoot in Roadless Nepal (1960)]]
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
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Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects
 
Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects
  
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[[Category:Summer 2007|2007-2]]

Latest revision as of 13:10, 3 November 2017

The second part of our Basismodule focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering seven parallel courses (supported by tutorials). Please make sure that you are registered in Stud.IP both for the main page of the module and for your individual course. All parallel courses have a common structure, but each course may differ in emphasis. You will find information relating to all the courses on this page, and the pages for the individual courses for information on your course:

2007 BM1 Introduction to Literature:Informationen
2006-07 BM1 Introduction to Literature:Results

2006-07 BM1 Introduction to Literature, Part 1

  • Tutorials:

Office hours for Research Paper Outline

The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice. You should make sure to read at least those texts that are dealt with in your course.

The "analytical tools" will be presented by the lectures (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.

Both the texts and the other materials will be made accessible to you electronically (cf. the links below) and as a master copy at Wersig. In addition you will need to purchase the Shakespeare play read in your course in an Arden Edition (ca. 14 EUR at the CvO bookshop).

Course work: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (in week 4, 7 and 10 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (due August 15 2007). The assignments are limited to a max. of 2-3 pages of text, formatted according to the style sheet, and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively. 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 that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents and a short bibliography).

Tutorials will help you to practise your analysis skills and support you in doing your assignments and Research Paper Outline.

Session 1: A Poem

Texts

Blake, Jerusalem (1804)

Skills and Activities

Group work with presentations:

  1. What is poetic about this poem?
  2. What are the Themes of the poem?
  3. What historical contexts?
  4. What is its cultural significance (then and later/now)?

Seminar discussion: What discourses did you employ? What traditions do they belong to? How does this relate back to the lecture of the Winter Term? Survey of the coming Term.

Session 2: Poetry and Poetics

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 3: Poetry and Poetics: Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • George Herbert. "The Deniall" The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. University of Cambridge, T. Buck and R. Daniel, 1633.
  • Emily Dickinson

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).

Assignments

Assignment 1 given

Session 4: Rhetoric

Analytical Tools

Texts

One of the three Shakespeare plays

Skills and Activities

A speech from the Shakespeare play of the next four sessions [assignment 1 due]

Session 5: Dramatic Structures, Dramatic Communication

Analytical Tools

Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147 Excerpt from Pfister

Handout: Analysing Dramatic Communication

Texts

One of the three Shakespeare plays

Skills and Activities

Exposition

Session 6: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects

Analytical Tools

Pfister 183 - 195 Excerpt from Pfister

Texts

One of the three Shakespeare plays

Skills and Activities

Distinguish modes of characterisation assignment 2 given

Session 7: Drama and Fiction

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown [1835]." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.
  • Coover, Magic Poker

Skills and Activities

An understanding of genres in the context of traditional poetics, and of the transition from poetic genres to literary genres. [assignment 2 due]

Session 8: Fiction 1

Analytical Tools

Rimmon-Kenan 72-86

Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan

Handout: Narratology

Texts

Skills and Activities

Narration, Focalisation. [assignment 2 returned]

Session 9: Fiction 2

Analytical Tools


Rimmon-Kenan 59-71

Handout: Narratology

Texts

Skills and Activities

Plot and Characters. [assignment 3 given]

Session 10: Film

Assignment 3 given.

Analytical Tools

  • Handout: Film Analysis
  • David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)

Texts

Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)

Skills and Activities

Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [assignment 3 due]

Session 11: Beyond the Canon 1

Analytical Tools

Texts

Skills and Activities

Literary Analysis and non-literary materials, [assignment 3 returned]

Session 12: Beyond the Canon 2

Analytical Tools


Texts

Toni Hagen, Afoot in Roadless Nepal (1960)

Skills and Activities

Literary Analysis and non-literary materials

Session 13: Term Paper Projects

Skills and Activities

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