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Revision as of 14:31, 30 August 2007

Course Outline

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

— different views on the periodization of literature.

Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
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.

The Journal Memoirs of Literature (1711).
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.

Hyppolite Taine's History of English Literature (1865)
5 Nov. 20, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I

— from Beowulf to Malory's La More Darthur (1485)

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

— the “rise of the novel”.

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
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).
8 Dec. 11, 2007 Drama, Part I

— from the middle ages to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603). ECCO
9 Dec. 18, 2007 Drama, Part II

— from the restoration to the present.

Edward Bond Saved (1965)
10 Jan. 8, 2008 Poetry

— once a broad field comrising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922).
11 Jan. 15, 2008 Literary Theory, Part I

— the development of literature.

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

— the ongoing and open discussion

Recommended Reading

  • Olaf Simons, Marteaus Europa oder der Roman, bevor der Literatur wurde (Amsterdam, 2001) link for a short history of our concept of literature]