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− | *Click [[2007-08 BM1: Session 1|here]] for further information about this course and its portfolio requirements. | + | *Click [[2007-08 BM1: Session 1|here]] for further information about this course and its portfolio requirements. You are expected to read at least two titles - one of the first list of fiction and drama and one of the second list of scholarly articles. |
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Revision as of 11:46, 23 October 2007
- Time: Di 14-16
- Place: A14 1-102 (Hörsaal 2)
- Lecturers: Anton Kirchhofer, Olaf Simons
- Tutors: Florian Gubisch, Katrin Ischebeck, Christina Stindl
Contents
Schedule
- To get through to the EEBO and ECCO-links on this page you have to either use a campus login or your national license - if you have not got one you can get your registration at the Göttingen SUB. Click here to register.
- 2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum
Session | Date | Topic | Reading | Presentation |
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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). [1] esp. General Prologue and Shipman's Tale [2] [3] |
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, King Lear (1608). EEBO | Session 8 |
9 | Dec. 18, 2007 | Drama, Part II — From the restoration to the present. |
William Wycherley, 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 |
Portfolio Requirements
- Click here for further information about this course and its portfolio requirements. You are expected to read at least two titles - one of the first list of fiction and drama and one of the second list of scholarly articles.
Excerpt
- Beowulf (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) Benjamin Slade's edition
- Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). Virginia e-text (you may try to read the Shipman's tale with a translation into modern English).
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1471/1485) EEBO, Marteau esp. Caxton's preface and book 5
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608). EEBO
- William Congreve, The Country Wife (1675). ECCO
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719). ECCO, Marteau
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871/72). 19thNovels.com
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Wikisource
- Edward Bond, Saved (1965)
- Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988).
- Robert Markley. "The Rise of Nothing: " The New Eighteenth Century ed. Martha Nussbaum.
- Hugh Trevor-Roper. in The Invention of Tradition ed. Eric Hobsbawm.
Histories of Literature: Further Reading
- Pierre-Daniel Huet. The history of romances. [1670] 1715. ECCO, Anglistik Oldenburg).
- The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature. 1774. ECCO
- Hyppolite Taine. Introduction to the History of English Literature. 1863. Bartleby
- Pat Rogers (ed.). The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature 1987.
Tutorials
- The tutorials have their own page at 2007-08 BM1 Tutorials