2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1
| Session | Date | Topic | Reading | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct. 23, 2007 | Course Outline. | 2007-08 BM1: Session 1 | |
| 2 | Oct. 30, 2007 | The Invention of History — Different views on the periodization of literature. |
Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). ECCO William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694). EEBO |
2007-08 BM1: 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. |
The Journal Memoirs of Literature (1711). ECCO The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774). ECCO |
2007-08 BM1: Session 3 Literature: |
| 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] (1715 ECCO, Anglistik Oldenburg). Hyppolite Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863). Bartleby |
2007-08 BM1: Session 4 Literature: |
| 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). |
2007-08 BM1: Session 5 |
| 6 | Nov. 27, 2007 | Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II — The "rise of the novel". |
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales (1386-1400). Virginia e-text you may try to read the Shipman's tale modern English traslation |
2007-08 BM1: 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). | 2007-08 BM1: Session 7 |
| 8 | Dec. 11, 2007 | Drama, Part I — From the middle ages to Shakespeare |
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603). EEBO, Marteau | 2007-08 BM1: Session 8 |
| 9 | Dec. 18, 2007 | Drama, Part II — From the restoration to the present. |
Edward Bond, Saved (1965) | 2007-08 BM1: Session 9 |
| 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 | 2007-08 BM1: Session 10 |
| 11 | Jan. 15, 2008 | Literary Theory, Part I — The development of literature - is it simply that every period produces a literature reflecting its epochal frame of mind? |
2007-08 BM1: Session 11 | |
| 12 | Jan. 22, 2008 | Written Test | 2007-08 BM1: Session 12 | |
| 13 | Jan. 29, 2008 | Feedback on Test and Look Ahead | 2007-08 BM1: Session 13 | |
| 14 | Feb. 5, 2008 | Literary Theory, Part II — The ongoing and open discussion |
2007-08 BM1: Session 14 |
