Schedule
Session
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Date
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Topic
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Reading
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Presentation
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1
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April 7, 2009
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Course Outline.
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Lecture BM1: Course outline
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2
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April 14, 2009
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Literary Theory
— Will literary historians ever establish a final view?
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Texts
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Lecture BM1: Literary Theory
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3
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April 28, 2009
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Literary History
— Which is the ultimate periodisation?
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Pat Rogers (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987)
William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694).
John Goldsmith, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC. (1800).
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Lecture BM1: Literary History
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4
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April 28, 2009
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Concepts of Literature
— What is literature?
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Aristotle, The Art of Poetry [c. 350 BC] (1705)
Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances (1670)
The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774).
Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863).
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Lecture BM1: Concepts of literature
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5
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May 5, 2009
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From Beowulf to the Last Man, Fiction 1
— What is fiction? Why do we have an 18th century "rise of the novel"?
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400). Esp.: General Prologue and Shipman's Tale
Jehan de Mandeville, Voyages (c.1370)
Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
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Lecture BM1: Fiction, 1
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6
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May 12, 2009
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Fiction, 2
— The order of Fictions
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George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872).
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Lecture BM1: Fiction, 2
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7
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May 19, 2009
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Fiction, 3
— The modern novel, a field of intense debate
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Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988).
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Lecture BM1: Fiction, 3
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8
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May 26, 2009
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Drama, I
— From the middle ages to Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606).
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Lecture BM1: Drama, 1
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9
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June 2, 2009
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Drama, II
— From the restoration to the present.
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William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675).
Edward Bond, Saved (1965)
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Lecture BM1: Drama, 2
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10
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June 9, 2009
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Poetry
— Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.
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William Blake, Jerusalem (1804).
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922).
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Lecture BM1: Poetry
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11
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June 16, 2009
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Round up
— What have we done?
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Lecture BM1: Round up
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12
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June 23, 2009
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Written Test
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Lecture BM1: Written Test
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13
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June 30, 2009
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Tutorial: Research Paper Outline, Evaluation
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Lecture BM1: RPO
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14
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July 7, 2009
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Feed back
— What was it good for?
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Lecture BM1: Feedback
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Portfolio Requirements
The Portfolio for the entire module (parts 1 and 2) includes 6 items:
- Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
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- Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 2 -- 3 KP:
- 3 textanalytische Aufgaben (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) (Week 4, 7, and 10 of term)
- 1 Research Paper Outline (benotet, 20% der Modulnote) (date due: August 15, 2008 [Winter Term: March 1, 2008].
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