2007 BM1-D Introduction to Literature, Part 2

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Overview

Introduction to Literature – Part 2 – Course D

Summer Term 2007

Lecturer: Anna Auguscik

Office Hours: Wed 16-17; A10 1-116

Phone.: 789-2345

E-Mail: anna.auguscik@uni-oldenburg.de

Opening Note

This is the place where you will find complementary information on the Basismodul 1 as it specifically relates to Course D (Tue 14-16 h, A10 1-121a, Anna Auguscik 12:06, 2 April 2007 (CEST)).

The Shakespeare Drama for this course will be Richard III (1597). You are welcome to read the play in German first, in order to get a general idea (using, for example, a Reclam edition, either bilingual or monoligual). In the course, we will work with the first edition of 1597 (available for download from our main course page and soon also as a mastercopy in Wersig) as well as the critical edition of Richard III (The Arden Edition, second series, ca. 14 EUR at CvO bookshop).

You may use the discussion page above for any questions relating specifically to our course rather than to the entire module.

Course Outline

17-Apr: A POEM

Organization of the Course

Assignments, Required Reading

Approaches to Reading a Poem

Reading: BLAKE “JERUSALEM”

24-Apr: POETRY AND POETICS

Structural approach to poetry

Communicative situation, themes, metrics and language, basics of metrics and rhyme patterns

The Sonnet

POETRY READER: Sidney, Sir Philip. “Loving in Truth”; Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 130”; Wordsworth, William. “Scorn Not the Sonnet”; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Sonnet”

Further Reading: Culler 161-178, Ludwig, 31-33

01-May: NO CLASS

08-May: POETRY AND POETICS

Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language

Figurative language, interplay

POETRY READER: Herbert, George. “The Deniall.”; cummings, e.e. “pity this busy monster, manunkind”

Further Reading: Ludwig, 47-60; Leech, 147-157 


     Assignment I: Poetry (Due: May 15)

15-May: DRAMA

RICHARD III

Plett 3-22, 102-105

  • Prepare for this session: take the page of the folio-edition you have been handed out and compare the right hand column with the text of the first Quarto-edition as given bellow.
  • Modify the Q1-Text till it reads as your passage of the Folio-text
  • Ignore variations of spelling and punctuation

Question: What kinds of variations did you notice in your personal piece of work? Were they improvments? PS: If you have problems to find your text in the Q1-edition, use our searchable html-edition at http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1597-richard-iii.html

22-May: DRAMA: CHARACTERS AND GENRE ASPECTS

Exposition

RICHARD III

Pfister 183 - 195

29-May: DRAMATIC STRUCTURES, DRAMATIC COMMUNICATION

Distinguish modes of characterisation

RICHARD III

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


     Assignment II: Drama (Due: June 05)

05-June: DRAMA AND FICTION

An understanding of genres in the context of traditional poetics, and of the transition from poetic genres to literary genres

HAWTHORNE, COOVER

Huet. Treatise of Romances; Boileau. Art of Poetry

12-June: FICTION I

Narration, Focalisation

HAWTHORNE, BIERCE, MANSFIELD , COOVER

Rimmon-Kenan 72-86

19-June: FICTION II

Plot and Characters

HAWTHORNE, BIERCE, MANSFIELD , COOVER

Rimmon-Kenan 59-71 

     Assignment III: Fiction (Due: June 26)

26-June: FILM

Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis

PULP FICTION

03-July BEYOND THE CANON

Literary Analysis and non-literary materials

MANDEVILLE. VOYAGES

10-July: BEYOND THE CANON

Literary Analysis and non-literary materials

17-July: TERM PAPER PROJECTS

Brief Report on 'Work in Progress' 

     Term Paper Projects (Due: Aug 15)


REQUIREMENTS FOR PASSING THE COURSE

  • Regular Attendance: you may not miss more than two classes!
  • Active Contributions: read the primary and secondary material carefully and take an active part in group discussions
  • Assignments: all assignments must be handed in on time! Two out of three assignments will count.
  • Research Paper Outline: choose a title, put up a plan, compile a bibliography, give a gist of how you would want to tackle your question


Critical Literature

  • Culler, Jonathan. “Poetics of the Lyric.” Structuralist Poetics. London, 1975. 161-188.
  • Ludwig, Hans-Werner. Arbeitsbuch Lyrikanalyse. Tübingen: Francke. 2005.
  • Leech, Geoffrey N. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. London: Longman, 1969.
  • Plett, Heinrich F. Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse. Hamburg: Helmut Buske, 1979.
  • Pfister, Manfred. The Theory and Analysis of Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
  • Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. Narrative Fiction. Contemporary Poetics. London, New York: Routledge, 1983.
  • Huet, Pierre Daniel. Treatise of Romances [1670]. 1672.
  • Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas. Art of Poetry. 1687.

Primary Literature

  • Poetry Reader
  • William Shakespeare. Richard III [1597] (The Arden Ed.)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown [1835]."
  • Robert Coover, "Magic Poker [1969]"
  • Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage [1922]."
  • Ambrose Bierce. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [1890]."
  • John Mandeville. Voyages [c. 1360]. 1705.
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