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&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"|Pierre-Daniel Huet, ''The history of romances'' [1670] (London, 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 Wiki Oldenburg]]).
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Hyppolite Taine, ''Introduction to the History of English Literature'' (1863). [http://www.bartleby.com/39/46.html Bartleby]
 
Hyppolite Taine, ''Introduction to the History of English Literature'' (1863). [http://www.bartleby.com/39/46.html Bartleby]
 
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Revision as of 17:41, 30 August 2007

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 (London, 1733). ECCO
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). ECCO Literature: O. Simons (2001), p.85-95.
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.

Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances [1670] (London, 1715 ECCO, Anglistik Wiki Oldenburg).

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

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

— From Beowulf (750/1010) to Malory's La More Darthur (1485)

Beowulf (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) Benjamin Slade's edition
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1471/1485) EEBO, Marteau
Jehan de Mandeville, Voyages (c.1370/ printed edition 1496 EEBO/ 1705 ECCO).
6 Nov. 27, 2007 Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II

— The "rise of the novel".

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719). ECCO, Marteau
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). EEBO, Marteau
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). Wikisource
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