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p.s.. My comments for each session can be found on stud-ip under "discussion".--[[User:Lindsay|Lindsay]] 21:58, 12 November 2007 (CET)
  
 
==15.11.2007==
 
==15.11.2007==

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  • Time: Thursdays 2-4 pm


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)

22.11.2007

[meeting postponed, Conference]

29.11.2007

Public Poetry: Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” (1854) W. B. Yeats, “Easter 1916.” (1919)

06.12.2007

Public Poetry: W. H. Auden, “Spain 1936” / “September 1, 1939.”

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.



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