2023-24 MM Literary History and Literary Studies

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  • Course: Literature, Literary History and Literary Studies
  • Time: Thursday 14.30-16.00h
  • Venue: A13 0-027
  • Course Description: This course is designed to accompany the lecture ‘Introduction to Literary History and Textual Analysis’ with additional discussions of the ideas, theories, and texts mentioned there. The course is meant to add to students' construction of a ‘narrative’ of this field, or, in other words, to students’ understanding of the history and culture of literary studies as an academic discipline. Why do we read certain texts? Why do we read them with certain ‘analysis tools’? Each week, we will discuss the contents of the lecture and read texts that will open up this perspective, e.g., by Jonathan Culler, Olaf Simons, Ian Hunter, Catherine Gallagher, etc.

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PLEASE NOTE that you will have to visit both the lecture and the course (Thursday, 12.15-14.15h and 14.30-16.00h).

  • Course Requirements
  • Requirements for 3 KP: active attendance (incl. a RPO)
  • Requirements for 6 KP: active attendance (incl. a RPO) and an (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), based on the topic of the seminar.
  • As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation: 
    Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
    - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
    - Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten) 
    - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch:
      *Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen (Gruppenarbeit) und 
      *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 20. Jan), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).

Session 1: 19 October

  • 12-14h Lecture: "Introduction and Overview. What Is Literature? What Do We Do with Literature?"
  • 14.30-16h Course Introduction and Discussion
  • Reading: Simon During's essay on the demoralization of the humanities in The Conversation (2022) and Ken Gelder's response

Session 2: 26 October

  • 12-14h Lecture: "What Do We Do with Literature? – Examples and Practices"
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: Anton Kirchhofer, "The Foucault Complex" (1997)
  • Handout Literature & Representation

Session 3: 2 November

Session 4: 9 November

  • No lecture, Practice week: Recap and Practical Unit (with tutors)
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: excerpts from Jonathan Culler, Structuralist Poetics (1975)

Session 5: 16 November

  • 12-14h Lecture: "Literature in Historical Context: Poetry and Rhetoric"
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: excerpts from Aristotle, Poetics and Rhetoric
  • Handout Analysing Poetry
  • Handout Rhetoric

Session 6: 23 November

  • 12-14h Lecture: "Literature in Historical Context: Drama"
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: exerpts from Manfred Pfister, The Theory and Analysis of Drama (1993)
  • Handout Analysing Dramatic Communication

Session 7: 30 November

  • No lecture, Practice week: Recap and Practical Unit (with tutors)
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: Ian Hunter, "Learning the Literature Lesson: The Limits of the Aesthetic Personality" (1991)

Session 8: 7 December

Session 9: 14 December

  • No lecture, Practice week: Recap and Practical Unit (with tutors)
  • No course, Reading week, from The New Historicism (1989; Ed. H. Aram Veeser)
  • Louis A. Montrose, "Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture"
  • Stephen Greenblatt, "Towards a Poetics of Culture"

Session 10: 21 December

  • 12-14h Lecture Recaps, Historical and Practical Unit: Theoretical Perspectives on the History of Shakespeare Performance, Editing, and Interpretation
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: Ina Schabert, Das Shakespeare Handbuch (1978/2018; Auszüge)
  • Handout: Editing Shakespeare
  • Handout: Shakespeare Handbuch

// Christmas Break //

Session 11: 11 January

  • 12-14h Lecture: "Literature in Historical Context: Narrative Fiction"
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: excerpts from Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction (1983)
  • Handout Narratology

Session 12: 18 January

  • 12-14h Lecture: Recap, Historical and Practical Unit – Changing historical contexts and conceptions of Narrative and Fiction. Changes in narrative conventions. Famous Passages from Famous Novels.
  • 14.30-16h Course Discussion
  • Reading: Catherine Gallagher, "The Rise of Fictionality" (2006); Monika Fludernik, "The Fiction of the Rise of Fictionality" (2018) 
  [Hand in RPO until 20 Jan 2023]

Session 13: 25 January

Session 14: 01 February

  • No lecture, BM test
  • discussion of research paper topics
  • feedback on evaluation 
  [Hand in research papers until 15 March 2023]

Tools

Recommended Primary Reading

Note that there will be no 'primary reading' in the strict sense. However, we will take a look at extracts from various primary texts taught as part of the basis module this term as well as in the previous terms. Ideally, familiarize yourself with the Reading List in British and Anglophone Literatures. The main reading in this course will be theoretical and secondary texts.

Secondary and Further Reading

  • Hanlon, Aaron R. "The Ends of Literary Studies." The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences. Eds. Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
  • Kirchhofer, Anton. “The Foucault Complex. A Review of Foucauldian Approaches in Literary Studies. ZAA 45.4 (1997): 277-299.
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