2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1
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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 (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 | |
| 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, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863). Bartleby | |
| 5 | Nov. 20, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I — from Beowulf to Malory's La More Darthur (1485) |
Beowulf (composed c. 750/ manuscript source c. 1010) Benjamin Slade's edition | |
| 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. |
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| 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]
