2007-08 AM Patterns of Participation: Literature and Criticism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Time: Thursdays 2-4 pm
Contents
25.10.2007
Introduction. Technicalities.
01.11.2007
[meeting postponed, Akkreditierung]
08.11.2007
Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Criticism: Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist” (1889)
Questions for next week's discussion (15.11.07):
Wilde: The Critic as Artist
How does Wilde arrive at the position in the final paragraph?
What are the implications of this essay for public society? (For example, do they participate or not?)
Arnold: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
What is Arnold's definition of literature in this essay?
What is his definition of criticism?
What other definitions of criticism are there? What is he against?
What does Arnold say about the relation of criticism to the public, politics, practice, and creativity?
What differences are there between England and the continent?
p.s.. My comments for each session can be found on stud-ip under "discussion".--Lindsay 21:58, 12 November 2007 (CET)
15.11.2007
Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Criticism: Matthew Arnold, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864)
Genreral questions for session on 29.11.07:
How does this poem try to address a public event and discussion? What kind of effect does it hope to create? Is it successful? If so, how is this effect achieved?
22.11.2007
[meeting postponed, Conference]
29.11.2007
Public Poetry: Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” (1854) (presented by Andreas Sprenkel & Gordon Barnard)
W. B. Yeats, “Easter 1916.” (1919)
Secondary Reading:
06.12.2007
Public Poetry: W. H. Auden, “Spain 1937” / “September 1, 1939.”
Secondary Reading:
13.12.2007
Poets as Critics: Political Journalism by T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound; [alternatively/ additionally]: Eliot and the Poetics of Modernism: T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” vs. Wordsworth, “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”
20.12.2007
Writers as Critics: Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1922); Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (1925) Virginia Woolf’s contributions to the Times Literary Supplement
10.01.2008
Exclusionist Writing? V. Woolf. Selected Texts from Monday and Tuesday (1921) <http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91m/>
17.01.2008
Implicit and Explicit Politics in James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
24.01.2008
Implicit and Explicit Poetics in James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
31.01.2008
Course Evaluation. – Final Discussion.
07.02.2008
Feedback on Course Evaluation. – Discussion of Term Paper Projects.