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* '''Lecturers:''' [[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]], [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
 
* '''Lecturers:''' [[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]], [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
 
:*'''Tutors:''' [[User:Florian Gubisch|Florian Gubisch]], [[User:Katrin Ischebeck|Katrin Ischebeck]], [[User:Christina Stindl|Christina Stindl]]
 
:*'''Tutors:''' [[User:Florian Gubisch|Florian Gubisch]], [[User:Katrin Ischebeck|Katrin Ischebeck]], [[User:Christina Stindl|Christina Stindl]]
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==Written Test 2008==
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Follow this link for a preview of the complex question and other information on the [[Written Test 2008]]
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==Schedule==
 
==Schedule==
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Invention of History<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Invention of History<br>
 
&mdash; Different views on the periodization of literature.
 
&mdash; Different views on the periodization of literature.
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|William Salmon, ''The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694'' (1694). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=9275867&FILE=../session/1188741289_12968&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=42583&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO]<hr>
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John Goldsmith, ''An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC.'' (1800). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0658000300&SU=All&c=5&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateDescend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW125523034&b0=almanack&tiPG=1 ECCO].
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[[Pat Rogers (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987)|Pat Rogers (ed.), ''The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature'' (1987)]]<hr>
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[[William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694)|William Salmon, ''The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694'' (1694).]]<hr>
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[[John Goldsmith, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC. (1800)|John Goldsmith, ''An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC.'' (1800).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 2|Session 2]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 2|Session 2]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Rise of Literature, Part I<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Rise of Literature, Part I<br>
 
&mdash; What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed.
 
&mdash; What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed.
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Pierre-Daniel Huet, ''The history of romances'' (1670) 1715 [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0143100500&SU=All&c=2&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW110602030&b0=huet&tiPG=1 ECCO], [[Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)|this wiki]].<hr>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Aristotle, Poetics (350 BC)|Aristotle, ''The Art of Poetry'' [c. 350 BC] (1705)]]<hr>
''The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature'' (1774). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0393700301&SU=All&c=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW112248153&b0=modern+dictionary+of+the+arts+and+sciences&tiPG=1 ECCO]<hr>
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[[Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)|Pierre-Daniel Huet, ''The history of romances'' (1670)]]<hr>
Pat Rogers (ed.). ''The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature'' (1986)
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[[The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774)|''The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature'' (1774).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 3|Session 3]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 3|Session 3]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Rise of Literature, Part II<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Rise of Literature, Part II<br>
 
&mdash; The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media.
 
&mdash; The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media.
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Hippolyte Taine, ''Introduction to the History of English Literature'' (1863). [http://www.bartleby.com/39/46.html Bartleby]<hr>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Hippolyte Taine, Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1863)|Hippolyte Taine, ''Introduction to the History of English Literature'' (1863).]]<hr>
Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (1471/1485) [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=22102180&FILE=../session/1188480744_15972&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=25050&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO], [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html Marteau] esp. Caxton's preface and book 5
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[[Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485)|Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' [1471] (1485).]] Esp.: Caxton's preface and book 5
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 4|Session 4]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 4|Session 4]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I<br>
 
&mdash; The "rise of the novel".
 
&mdash; The "rise of the novel".
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Geoffrey Chaucer ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400). [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public] esp. General Prologue and Shipman's Tale [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=33&division=div1] [http://www.librarius.com/canttran/shiptale/shiptale001-019.htm]<hr>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)|Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1387-1400).]] Esp.: General Prologue and Shipman's Tale<hr>
Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0653600100&SU=All&c=5&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW113746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&tiPG=1 ECCO], [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1719-robinson-crusoe.html Marteau]
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[[Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)|Daniel DeFoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 5|Session 5]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 5|Session 5]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II<br>
 
&mdash; The order of Fictions
 
&mdash; The order of Fictions
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' <!--Untertitel-->(1871/72). [http://www.19thnovels.com/middlemarch.php 19thNovels.com]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872)|George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-1872).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 6|Session 6]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 6|Session 6]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III<br>
 
&mdash; The modern novel, a field of intense debate
 
&mdash; The modern novel, a field of intense debate
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988)|Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 7|Session 7]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 7|Session 7]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, Part I<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, Part I<br>
 
&mdash; From the middle ages to Shakespeare
 
&mdash; From the middle ages to Shakespeare
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|William Shakespeare, ''King Lear'' (1608). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=99846503&FILE=../session/1193063451_7446&SEARCHSCREEN=param(SEARCHSCREEN)&VID=11476&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=param(SEARCHCONFIG)&DISPLAY=param(DISPLAY) EEBO]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606)|William Shakespeare, ''King Lear'' (1606).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 8|Session 8]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 8|Session 8]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, Part II<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, Part II<br>
 
&mdash; From the restoration to the present.
 
&mdash; From the restoration to the present.
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|William Wycherley, ''The Country Wife'' (1675). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12738515&FILE=../session/1188896327_12749&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=93051&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= ECCO]<hr>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)|William Wycherley, ''The Country Wife'' (1675).]]<hr>
Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965)
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[[Edward Bond, Saved (1965)|Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965)]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 9|Session 9]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 9|Session 9]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Poetry<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Poetry<br>
 
&mdash; Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.
 
&mdash; Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|William Blake, ''Jerusalem'' (1804). [[William Blake, Jerusalem (1804)|Anglistik Wiki Oldenburg]]<hr>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Blake, Jerusalem (1804)|William Blake, ''Jerusalem'' (1804).]]<hr>
T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922). [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land Wikisource]
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[[T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)|T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 10|Session 10]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 10|Session 10]]
 
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*Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
 
*Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
:*1 Exzerpt eines primär- und eines Sekundärtexts (unbenotet) -- date due: January 15, 2008
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:*1 Übungsblatt mit [[Exzerpt eines primär- und eines Sekundärtexts (unbenotet)]] -- date due: January 15, 2008
 
:*1 Written Test (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) -- January 22, 2008.
 
:*1 Written Test (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) -- January 22, 2008.
  
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:*1 Research Paper Outline (benotet, 20% der Modulnote) (date due: August 15, 2008 [Winter Term: March 1, 2008].
 
:*1 Research Paper Outline (benotet, 20% der Modulnote) (date due: August 15, 2008 [Winter Term: March 1, 2008].
  
 
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Click [[2007-08 BM1: Session 1|here]] for further information about the structure of this course and the portfolio requirements.
  
 
We created a [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|special page]] to reflect what we are aiming at - with this course and the studies in literature we offer at the university of Oldenburg.  
 
We created a [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|special page]] to reflect what we are aiming at - with this course and the studies in literature we offer at the university of Oldenburg.  
 
Click [[2007-08 BM1: Session 1|here]] for further information about the structure of this course and the portfolio requirements.
 
 
===Excerpt===
 
 
You are expected to read and excerpt at least two titles - one of the first list of fiction and drama and one of the second list of scholarly articles. You are expected to read and excerpt at least two titles - one of the first list of fiction and drama and one of the second list of scholarly articles. Click [[Excerpt|here]] for further information on how to write a good excerpt.
 
 
====Drama and Fiction====
 
# ''Beowulf'' (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) [http://www.heorot.dk/beo-ru.html Benjamin Slade's edition]
 
# Geoffrey Chaucer ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400). [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public Virginia e-text] (you may try to read the [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-old?id=Cha2Can&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=33&division=div1 Shipman's tale] with a [http://www.librarius.com/canttran/shiptale/shiptale001-019.htm translation into modern English]).
 
# Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (1471/1485) [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=22102180&FILE=../session/1188480744_15972&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=25050&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO], [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html Marteau] esp. Caxton's preface and book 5
 
# William Shakespeare, ''King Lear'' (1608). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=99846503&FILE=../session/1193063451_7446&SEARCHSCREEN=param(SEARCHSCREEN)&VID=11476&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=param(SEARCHCONFIG)&DISPLAY=param(DISPLAY) EEBO]
 
# William Wycherley, ''The Country Wife'' (1675). [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12738515&FILE=../session/1188896327_12749&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=93051&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= ECCO]
 
# Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719). [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0653600100&SU=All&c=5&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW113746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&tiPG=1 ECCO], [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1719-robinson-crusoe.html Marteau]
 
# George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' <!--Untertitel-->(1871/72). [http://www.19thnovels.com/middlemarch.php 19thNovels.com]
 
# T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922). [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land Wikisource]
 
# Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965)
 
# Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).
 
 
====Literary Criticism====
 
# Robert Markley. "The Rise of Nothing: " ''The New Eighteenth Century'' ed. Martha Nussbaum.
 
# Hugh Trevor-Roper. in ''The Invention of Tradition'' ed. Eric Hobsbawm.
 
  
 
==Tutorials==
 
==Tutorials==
 
The tutorials have their own page at [[2007-08 BM1 Tutorials]]
 
The tutorials have their own page at [[2007-08 BM1 Tutorials]]
 
==Further Reading==
 
# Pierre-Daniel Huet. ''The history of romances''. [1670] 1715. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0143100500&SU=All&c=2&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW110602030&b0=huet&tiPG=1 ECCO], [[Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)|Anglistik Oldenburg]]).
 
# ''The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature''. 1774. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&locID=bis&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=0393700301&SU=All&c=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=DateAscend&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW112248153&b0=modern+dictionary+of+the+arts+and+sciences&tiPG=1 ECCO]
 
# Hyppolite Taine. ''Introduction to the History of English Literature''. 1863. [http://www.bartleby.com/39/46.html Bartleby]
 
# Pat Rogers (ed.). ''The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature'' 1987.
 
  
 
[[Category:Basismodul]]
 
[[Category:Basismodul]]
 
[[Category:Winter 2007-2008|2008-1]]
 
[[Category:Winter 2007-2008|2008-1]]
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==Fragen und Antworten aus dem Tutorium==
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ich schiebe die Debatte mal rüber auf die [[Talk:2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1|Diskussionsseite]].

Latest revision as of 13:05, 15 January 2008

Written Test 2008

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Schedule

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Session Date Topic Reading Presentation
1 Oct. 23, 2007 Course Outline. Session 1
2 Oct. 30, 2007 The Invention of History

— Different views on the periodization of literature.

Pat Rogers (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987)
William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694).

John Goldsmith, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC. (1800).

Session 2
3 Nov. 6, 2007 The Rise of Literature, Part I

— What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed.

Aristotle, The Art of Poetry [c. 350 BC] (1705)
Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances (1670)

The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774).

Session 3
4 Nov. 13, 2007 The Rise of Literature, Part II

— The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media.

Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863).

Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur [1471] (1485). Esp.: Caxton's preface and book 5

Session 4
5 Nov. 20, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I

— The "rise of the novel".

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400). Esp.: General Prologue and Shipman's Tale

Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Session 5
6 Nov. 27, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II

— The order of Fictions

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872). Session 6
7 Dec. 4, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III

— The modern novel, a field of intense debate

Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988). Session 7
8 Dec. 11, 2007 Drama, Part I

— From the middle ages to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606). Session 8
9 Dec. 18, 2007 Drama, Part II

— From the restoration to the present.

William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675).

Edward Bond, Saved (1965)

Session 9
10 Jan. 8, 2008 Poetry

— Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.

William Blake, Jerusalem (1804).

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922).

Session 10
11 Jan. 15, 2008 Literary Theory, Part I

— What is literature? Different debates and different answers.

Session 11
12 Jan. 22, 2008 Written Test Session 12
13 Jan. 29, 2008 Feedback on Test and Look Ahead Session 13
14 Feb. 5, 2008 Literary Theory, Part II

— Debate or field of learning?

Session 14

Portfolio Requirements

The Portfolio for the entire module (parts 1 and 2) includes 6 items:

  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 2 -- 3 KP:
  • 3 textanalytische Aufgaben (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) (Week 4, 7, and 10 of term)
  • 1 Research Paper Outline (benotet, 20% der Modulnote) (date due: August 15, 2008 [Winter Term: March 1, 2008].

Click here for further information about the structure of this course and the portfolio requirements.

We created a special page to reflect what we are aiming at - with this course and the studies in literature we offer at the university of Oldenburg.

Tutorials

The tutorials have their own page at 2007-08 BM1 Tutorials

Fragen und Antworten aus dem Tutorium

ich schiebe die Debatte mal rüber auf die Diskussionsseite.