2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1
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Session | Date | Topic | Reading | Presentation |
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1 | Oct. 23, 2007 | Course Outline. | 2007-08 BM1: Session 1 | |
2 | Oct. 30, 2007 | The Invention of History — Different views on the periodization of literature. |
William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694). EEBO Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). ECCO |
2007-08 BM1: Session 2 |
3 | Nov. 6, 2007 | The Rise of Literature, Part I — What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed. |
Memoirs of Literature containing a weekly account of the state of learning (1711). ECCO The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774). ECCO |
2007-08 BM1: Session 3 Literature: |
4 | Nov. 13, 2007 | The Rise of Literature, Part II — The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media. |
Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances [1670] (1715 ECCO, Anglistik Oldenburg). Hyppolite Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863). Bartleby |
2007-08 BM1: Session 4 Literature: |
5 | Nov. 20, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II — The "rise of the novel". |
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). Virginia e-text (you may try to read the Shipman's tale with a translation into modern English) |
2007-08 BM1: Session 6 |
6 | Nov. 27, 2007 | , Part II |
2007-08 BM1: Session 6b | |
7 | Dec. 4, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III — The modern novel, a field of intense debate |
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1819). Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988). |
2007-08 BM1: Session 7 |
8 | Dec. 11, 2007 | Drama, Part I — From the middle ages to Shakespeare |
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603). EEBO, Marteau | 2007-08 BM1: Session 8 |
9 | Dec. 18, 2007 | Drama, Part II — From the restoration to the present. |
William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675). ECCO Edward Bond, Saved (1965) |
2007-08 BM1: Session 9 |
10 | Jan. 8, 2008 | Poetry — Once a broad field comrising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature. |
William Blake, Jerusalem (1804). Anglistik Wiki Oldenburg T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Wikisource |
2007-08 BM1: Session 10 |
11 | Jan. 15, 2008 | Literary Theory, Part I — What is literature? Different debates and different answers. |
2007-08 BM1: Session 11 | |
12 | Jan. 22, 2008 | Written Test | 2007-08 BM1: Session 12 | |
13 | Jan. 29, 2008 | Feedback on Test and Look Ahead | 2007-08 BM1: Session 13 | |
14 | Feb. 5, 2008 | Literary Theory, Part II — Debate or field of learning? |
2007-08 BM1: Session 14 |