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*English, James F. 2002. "Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art." ''New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation'' 33.1 (Winter): 109-35.
 
*English, James F. 2002. "Winning the Culture Game: Prizes, Awards, and the Rules of Art." ''New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation'' 33.1 (Winter): 109-35.
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Course Description

This course will offer an opportunity to explore the culture of literary prizes in Anglophone fiction on the example of the Man Booker Prize 2008. As UK's most prestigious literary prize celebrates its 40th anniversary, the course will introduce students to the main issues and developments of the Booker 2008, and invite them to analyse its background on four levels: textual analysis, marketing, reviewing and prize coverage. By the beginning of term, students should have purchased and read the six novels on the 2008 Booker shortlist.

Important Dates:

  • The judging panel: announcement on 18 December 2007
  • The longlist: announcement on 29 July 2008
  • The shortlist: announcement 9 September 2008
  • The winner: announcement on 14 October 2008.

14.10.2008

Introduction and Discussion of Booker Web Site

21.10.2008

Theory and Secondary Materials

28.10.2008

Theory and Secondary Materials

04.11.2008

Novel 1: Textual Analysis, Marketing, and Reviewing

14.11.2008

Novel 2: Textual Analysis, Marketing, and Reviewing

18.11.2008

Novel 3: Textual Analysis, Marketing, and Reviewing

25.11.2008

Novel 4: Textual Analysis, Marketing, and Reviewing

02.12.2008

Novel 5: Textual Analysis, Marketing, and Reviewing

09.12.2008

Novel 6: Textual Analysis, Marketing, and Reviewing

16.12.2008

Close Reading: Textual Analysis I

06.01.2009

Close Reading: Textual Analysis II

13.01.2009

Marketing

20.01.2009

Reviewing
Course Evaluation.

27.01.2009

Outlook: Theory Revisited.
Feedback on course Evaluation.

Requirements

Course Requirements for credits as a Master Module "English Literatures":

  1. Regular attendance (you may miss up to two meetings, whatever the reasons) and
  2. active participation (expert on one novel and
  3. An oral presentation of ca. 20 minutes that will form the basis for your subsequent term paper (you present information and develop an argument that must allow you to formulate research questions concerning a particular text and topic, which will then be discussed by the seminar).
  4. A term paper (generally dealing with one or several of the issues raised in your oral contribution; length ca. 20 pages; deadline March 2009).

Requirements for candidates for the Staatsexamenklausur:

  1. Regular attendance and active participation.
  2. An oral presentation of ca. 20 minutes that will allow you to practice collecting, selecting and focusing information and textual analysis, as you will be asked to do in the written exam (you present information and develop an argument that must allow you to formulate research questions concerning a particular text and topic, which will then be discussed by the seminar).

Alternatively, you may join a group that produces short summaries of the seminar meetings which help you revise for the written exam.

NOTE: Depending on the focus of your contribution, you may take this course as "Brit Lit.wiss" or as "Brit.Cult.Stud.".

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