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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 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])<hr>
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|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 Virginia e-text] esp. General Prologue and [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])<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]
 
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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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 5|Session 5]]

Revision as of 17:24, 21 October 2007


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.

William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694). EEBO

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

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.

Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances (1670) 1715 ECCO, this wiki.
The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774). ECCO

Pat Rogers (ed.). The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1986)

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). Bartleby

Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1471/1485) EEBO, Marteau 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 (1386-1400). Virginia e-text esp. General Prologue and Shipman's tale with a translation into modern English)

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

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

— The order of Fictions

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871/72). 19thNovels.com 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, Hamlet (1603). EEBO, Marteau Session 8
9 Dec. 18, 2007 Drama, Part II

— From the restoration to the present.

William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675). ECCO

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). Anglistik Wiki Oldenburg

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

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