2007-08 BM1: Session 12
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Back to 2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1
Expectations:
Contents
- 1 Construct correct bibliographical entries for the following items.
- 2 Knowledge about established notions on periods.
- 3 Some aspects of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses can be described as 'postmodern'. Other aspects of the text can be described as 'postcolonial'. Give an example for either a postcolonial or a postmodern feature of the text.
- 4 In the context of Shakespeare studies what is
- 5 Briefly characterise the status of Shakespeare
- 6 The meaning of the term 'poetry' has changed over the past few centuries. Name one contrast between the meaning of 'poetry' around 1700 and around 1900.
- 7 Formulate at least two different definitions of the term 'literature' and discuss what advantages and disadvantages each definition could have for the practice of literary studies.
- 8 Notenskala:
Construct correct bibliographical entries for the following items.
- The paperback edition of J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize Winning novel Disgrace published in the year 2000 by the New York publisher Vintage. (5)
- An article entitled Speech-Manuscript-Print, published in the year 1990 by the historian D. F. McKenzie, and to be found on pages 87 to 109 in volume 22 of The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin. (7)
Knowledge about established notions on periods.
- Indicate roughly the dates usually associated with three of the following five periods. (6)
- Renaissance
- Restoration
- Enlightenment
- Romantic Age
- Victorian Age
- For three periods of your choice, name at least one typical feature conventionally associated with it. (6)
- For three periods of your choice, name one writer who wrote during this period. (3)
- When were these periods 'invented'. Indicate roughly around what time scholars started constructing literary history as a succession of such periods. (3)
Some aspects of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses can be described as 'postmodern'. Other aspects of the text can be described as 'postcolonial'. Give an example for either a postcolonial or a postmodern feature of the text.
In the context of Shakespeare studies what is
- a Quarto edition? (5)
- the Folio edition? (5)
Briefly characterise the status of Shakespeare
- around 1600. (5)
- in the nineteenth century. (5)
The meaning of the term 'poetry' has changed over the past few centuries. Name one contrast between the meaning of 'poetry' around 1700 and around 1900.
(10)
Formulate at least two different definitions of the term 'literature' and discuss what advantages and disadvantages each definition could have for the practice of literary studies.
(30 points)
Notenskala:
- 73 – 100: 1
- 61 – 72: 2
- 49 – 60: 3
- 37 – 48: 4
- 25 – 36: 5
- 0 – 24: 6
