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Session 1: A Poem (April 18, 2007)

First session conducted by Anna Auguscik and Olaf Simons

Session 2: Poetry and Poetics (April 25, 2007)

Work to be done for this session - read:

• Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from Astrophil and Stella
• William Percy, "Sonnet II" from Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia
• Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from A Pageant and Other Poems

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 (May 2, 2007)

Group Reading Merchant of Venice (May 6, 2007)

Group reading of William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (1600). Download the original text (or read the Arden edition). If you join us you can facilitate our planning by registering unter Current events#May 6, 2007: Merchant of Venice.

Session 4: The different Plots of the Play - Outline (May 9, 2007)

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1600)

Session 5: Characters and Characterisation (May 16, 2007)

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1600)

• What is an act?
• What is a scene?
• Locations can change within acts.
• Some remarks on the quarto edition which did not note scenes and acts.
• Close Reading of Act II, Scene ii Clown and Father.

• Monologue
• Soliloquy
• Aside (here with clear interaction between Clown and audience)
• Characterisation of the Clown - Language, Foolery
• Remarks on the role of the Clown (Hans-Wurst, Harlekin, Kasper) - who developed from country simpleton to our stock character circus clown.

• Handout: Analysing Dramatic Communication

Session 6: Rythm of the play (May 23, 2007)

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1600)

• What kinds of scenes do we have, how are they arranged - there is a flow of scenes with a dramatic rhythm.
• Rhetoric: We will speak about a speech and its rhetorical devices and about the role of speeches in general. Handout: Rhetoric

Session 7: Discussion of Merchant of Venice

Defend a position - and prepare your argumentation with arguments to be taken from the text:

• The play is overall antisemitic
• The play is rather designed to arouse sympathies towards Jews
• Is Anthonio a Homosexual?
• The question of homosexuality should not bother us as literary scholars

I'd be happy if people who prepare their argumentation left their names underneath the topic of their choice (log in and sign with ~~~~ to leave your signature).

What I should teach? Characters (what sorts of?), character developments etc.

Session 8: Drama and Fiction (May 30, 2007)

Session 9: Fiction 1 (June 6, 2007)

Movie: Pulp Fiction (June 19, 2007)

The lecture room turned into a cinema: Pulp Fiction

Session 10: Fiction 2 (June 13, 2007)

Session 11: Film (June 20, 2007)

Session 12: Beyond the Canon 1 (June 27, 2007)

Session 13: Beyond the Canon 2 (July 4, 2007)

Session 14: Term Paper Projects (July 18, 2007)