2007-08 BM1: Session 11

Back to 2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1

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Questions the tutors collected

1. What do the terms "prose fiction" and "fiction" refer to?
2. Recaptitulate the different versions of the "Rise of the Novel" als eplained in lecture 5.
3. What did the terms "novel" and "romance" mean - in the context of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719).
4. The blackboard script given at the end of the last lecture should be looked at again.
5. Explain the model of communication you gave in several of the lectures.
6. 1750 - can this year actually have been such a watershed?
7. Is the "post" in postcolonial the same as in postmodern? How do these periods relate to each other?
8. What does the term "transcendental homelessness refer to?
9. What does the "order of fictions" mean?
10. The diagram of different sorts of fiction around 1700 should be explained again.
11. The table of the different topics the literary discourse adopted should be recapitulated.