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More information will follow - for the moment only information on the reading list, it will be [[Shakespeare, Richard III (1597)|''Richard III'' (1597)]] in this course.
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This is a sub page of [[2007 BM1 Introduction to Literature, Part 2]]  
  
If you want to join a group reading of the text, please leave your name at [[Current events#April 21, 2007: Richard III]].
 
  
NOTE: Olaf won't be here for the first session of this course. I will do my best to supply his place in the first meeting. -- Anton Kirchhofer
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==Session 1: A Poem (April 16, 2007)==
  
[[Category:Course|Basismodul]]
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Session conducted by [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]]
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===April 21, 2007: Group Reading of Richard III===
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Group reading of If you want to join a group reading of [[William Shakespeare, Richard III (1597)]]. Download the original text (or read the Arden edition). If you join us you can facilitate our planning by registering under [[Current events#April 21, 2007: Richard III]].
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==Session 2: Poetry and Poetics (April 23, 2007)==
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Work to be done for this session - read:
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*[[Sir Philip Sidney, Not at first sight (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from ''Astrophil and Stella'']]
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*[[William Percy, Sonnet II (1594)|William Percy, "Sonnet II" from ''Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia'']]
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*[[Christina Rossetti, I wish I could remember (1881)|Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from ''A Pageant and Other Poems'']]
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Please read these texts in the text base Anna provided - the copies offer the better editions.
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==Session 3: Poetry and Poetics: Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language (April 30, 2007)==
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Where are the texts , we are supposed to read? I can`t find them [[User:84.129.232.164|84.129.232.164]] 19:04, 27 April 2007 (CEST)
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==Session 4: Richard III, the Text - which Text (May 7, 2007)==
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Group Work, look into the Arden Text's editorial preface. Materials will be provided.
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==Session 5: Dramatic Structures, Dramatic Communication (May 14, 2007)==
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*Homework: take the page of the folio-edition you have been handed out and compare the '''left''' hand column with the text of the first Quato-edition as given bellow. 
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*Modify the Q1-Text till it reads as your passage of the Folio-text
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*Ignore variations of spelling and punctuation
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*[[Richard III, Q1, (1597), p.3-94]]
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Question: What kinds of variations did you notice in your personal piece of work? Were they improvments?
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PS: If you have problems to find your text in the Q1-edition, use our searchable html-edition at
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http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1597-richard-iii.html
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==Session 6: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects (May 21, 2007)==
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[[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 2: Richard III|Assignment II given]] due Monday 4th, June 2007. See also our page [[Survive Assignments]]
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==Session 7: Drama and Fiction (June 4, 2007)==
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==Session 8: Fiction 1 (June 11, 2007)==
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1835_hawthorne__brown.pdf Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown (1835)." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.] (Source not noted on the pdf-scan. Please add source yourselves.)
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1922_mansfield__the_voyage.pdf Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage." ''The Garden Party and Other Stories''. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922. 168-181.]
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I handed back the assignments and spoke about the answers the different questions found. Click [[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 2: Richard III/Model Solution|here]] for model solution.
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We tried to discuss the two stories and Snoopy's grand novel (handout). Questions were: What is a novel? A short history of the words "novel" (dt. Roman), "Romance" (im deutschen ebenfalls Roman, je nach Kontext auch Romanze, Barockroman), "Novella" (dt. Novelle), "short story" (Kurzgeschichte), heroic/comic epic (dt. heroisches und komisches (Vers-)epos).
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Why did the English and the Spanish introduce the word "novel" (which used to stand for what is now seen as the "novella") in order to speak of extended prose fictions? (This was the content of one of the Winter semester's lectures).
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In order to speak about the narration/ the narrator's point of view, I began a debate of the content. The debate was finally suspended it will be continued with an additional look at:
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_coover__magic_poker.pdf Robert Coover. "Magic Poker." ''Pricksongs and Descants. Fictions'' (1969). New York: New American Library, 1970.]
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==Session 9: Fiction 2 (June 18, 2007)==
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1835_hawthorne__brown.pdf Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Young Goodman Brown (1835)." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. B. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 2258-2267.] (Source not noted on the pdf-scan. Please add source yourselves.)
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1922_mansfield__the_voyage.pdf Katherine Mansfield. "The Voyage." ''The Garden Party and Other Stories''. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922. 168-181.]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_coover__magic_poker.pdf Robert Coover. "Magic Poker." ''Pricksongs and Descants. Fictions'' (1969). New York: New American Library, 1970.]
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===Movie: Pulp Fiction (June 19, 2007)===
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The lecture room turned into a cinema: Pulp Fiction
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==Session 10: Film (June 25, 2007)==
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==Session 11: Beyond the Canon 1 (July 2, 2007)==
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==Session 12: Beyond the Canon 2 (July 9, 2007)==
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==Session 13: Term Paper Projects (July 16, 2007)==
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[[Category:Basismodul]]
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[[Category:Summer 2007|2007-2]]

Latest revision as of 19:21, 11 July 2007

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  • A10-1-121a

This is a sub page of 2007 BM1 Introduction to Literature, Part 2


Session 1: A Poem (April 16, 2007)

Session conducted by Anna Auguscik

April 21, 2007: Group Reading of Richard III

Group reading of If you want to join a group reading of William Shakespeare, Richard III (1597). Download the original text (or read the Arden edition). If you join us you can facilitate our planning by registering under Current events#April 21, 2007: Richard III.

Session 2: Poetry and Poetics (April 23, 2007)

Work to be done for this session - read:

Please read these texts in the text base Anna provided - the copies offer the better editions.

Session 3: Poetry and Poetics: Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language (April 30, 2007)

Where are the texts , we are supposed to read? I can`t find them 84.129.232.164 19:04, 27 April 2007 (CEST)

Session 4: Richard III, the Text - which Text (May 7, 2007)

Group Work, look into the Arden Text's editorial preface. Materials will be provided.

Session 5: Dramatic Structures, Dramatic Communication (May 14, 2007)

  • Homework: take the page of the folio-edition you have been handed out and compare the left hand column with the text of the first Quato-edition as given bellow.
  • Modify the Q1-Text till it reads as your passage of the Folio-text
  • Ignore variations of spelling and punctuation

Question: What kinds of variations did you notice in your personal piece of work? Were they improvments? PS: If you have problems to find your text in the Q1-edition, use our searchable html-edition at http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1597-richard-iii.html

Session 6: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects (May 21, 2007)

Assignment II given due Monday 4th, June 2007. See also our page Survive Assignments

Session 7: Drama and Fiction (June 4, 2007)

Session 8: Fiction 1 (June 11, 2007)


I handed back the assignments and spoke about the answers the different questions found. Click here for model solution.

We tried to discuss the two stories and Snoopy's grand novel (handout). Questions were: What is a novel? A short history of the words "novel" (dt. Roman), "Romance" (im deutschen ebenfalls Roman, je nach Kontext auch Romanze, Barockroman), "Novella" (dt. Novelle), "short story" (Kurzgeschichte), heroic/comic epic (dt. heroisches und komisches (Vers-)epos).

Why did the English and the Spanish introduce the word "novel" (which used to stand for what is now seen as the "novella") in order to speak of extended prose fictions? (This was the content of one of the Winter semester's lectures).

In order to speak about the narration/ the narrator's point of view, I began a debate of the content. The debate was finally suspended it will be continued with an additional look at:

Session 9: Fiction 2 (June 18, 2007)


Movie: Pulp Fiction (June 19, 2007)

The lecture room turned into a cinema: Pulp Fiction

Session 10: Film (June 25, 2007)

Session 11: Beyond the Canon 1 (July 2, 2007)

Session 12: Beyond the Canon 2 (July 9, 2007)

Session 13: Term Paper Projects (July 16, 2007)