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Figurative language, interplay. Spot metaphors, similes, etc. the metric pattern and valorise the points where it is broken. Reinforce basic checklist of previous week. Analyse particular features of poetic language (figures of speech, metrical effects). | Figurative language, interplay. Spot metaphors, similes, etc. the metric pattern and valorise the points where it is broken. Reinforce basic checklist of previous week. Analyse particular features of poetic language (figures of speech, metrical effects). | ||
| − | Assignment I: Poetry (Due: 29-Apr) | + | [[BM1 Poetry-Assignment, 2008|Assignment I: Poetry (Due: 29-Apr)]] |
==Session 29-Apr: Rhetoric== | ==Session 29-Apr: Rhetoric== | ||
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In preparation please read especially Act IV, scene 14, (most of page 362 in the folio edition) and Act V, scene 2 (especially 5.2.206-327, end of page 366 and all of page 367 in the Folio). The scenes shows the deaths of Anthony and of Cleopatra respectively. As you read, look for rhetorical elements in the dialogue and speeches that precede Anthony's suicide, and look at how the language of the various characters differs. | In preparation please read especially Act IV, scene 14, (most of page 362 in the folio edition) and Act V, scene 2 (especially 5.2.206-327, end of page 366 and all of page 367 in the Folio). The scenes shows the deaths of Anthony and of Cleopatra respectively. As you read, look for rhetorical elements in the dialogue and speeches that precede Anthony's suicide, and look at how the language of the various characters differs. | ||
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A speech from the Shakespeare play -- be able to spot rhetorical [assignment 1 due] | A speech from the Shakespeare play -- be able to spot rhetorical [assignment 1 due] | ||
| − | ==Session 06-May: Dramatic Structures | + | ==Session 06-May: Drama: Dramatic Structures== |
'''Analytical Tools''' | '''Analytical Tools''' | ||
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147] | [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147] | ||
| − | [[Pfister, Das Drama | + | [[Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (1977)|Excerpt from Pfister]] |
Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]] | Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]] | ||
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Exposition [assignment 1 returned] | Exposition [assignment 1 returned] | ||
| − | ==Session 13-May: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects== | + | ==Session 13-May: Drama: Dramatic Communication== |
| + | '''Analytical Tools''' | ||
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| + | [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147] | ||
| + | [[Pfister, Das Drama, München 1977|Excerpt from Pfister]] | ||
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| + | Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]] | ||
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| + | '''Texts''' | ||
| + | *Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1623) [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=99846615&FILE=../session/1207590341_11710&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=11596&PAGENO=427&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO] | ||
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| + | '''Skills and Activities''' | ||
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| + | ==Session 20-May: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects== | ||
'''Analytical Tools''' | '''Analytical Tools''' | ||
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'''Skills and Activities''' | '''Skills and Activities''' | ||
| − | Assignment II: Drama (Due: May | + | [http://www.wiki.uni-oldenburg.de/fk3/angl-am/index.php?title=2008_BM1_Assignment_2:_Antony_and_Cleopatra Assignment II: Drama (Due: May 27)] |
| − | ==Session | + | ==Session 27-May: Drama and Fiction== |
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An understanding of genres in the context of traditional poetics, and of the transition from poetic genres to literary genres. [assignment 2 due] | An understanding of genres in the context of traditional poetics, and of the transition from poetic genres to literary genres. [assignment 2 due] | ||
| − | ==Session | + | ==Session 03-June: Fiction 1== |
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Narration, Focalisation. [assignment 2 returned] | Narration, Focalisation. [assignment 2 returned] | ||
| − | ==Session | + | ==Session 10-June: Fiction 2== |
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*Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) | *Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) | ||
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===Film showing: June 10, 2008=== | ===Film showing: June 10, 2008=== | ||
| − | Watch Fight Club with your peers and teachers | + | Watch [[David Fincher (dir.), Fight Club (1999 film)|Fight Club]] with your peers and teachers |
:*Venue: HS 2 | :*Venue: HS 2 | ||
| − | :*Time: 19.45-22.15 | + | :*Time: 19.45-22.15 |
| − | + | [[2008 BM1 Assignment 3: Jekyll and Hyde|Assignment III: Fiction (Due: 24-June)]] | |
==Session 17-June: Film== | ==Session 17-June: Film== | ||
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'''Skills and Activities''' | '''Skills and Activities''' | ||
| − | Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. | + | Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. |
| − | ==Session 24-June: | + | ==Session 24-June: Film== |
'''Analytical Tools''' | '''Analytical Tools''' | ||
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| + | * Handout: [[Film Analysis]] | ||
| + | * David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000) | ||
'''Texts''' | '''Texts''' | ||
| − | + | *David Fincher, Fight Club (1999) | |
| + | *[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1999_showalter_jekyll.pdf Elaine Showalter. "Dr Jekyll's Closet." Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas (Eds.). The Haunted Mind. The Supernatural in Victorian Literature. London: Scarecrow Press, 1999, 67-88.] | ||
'''Skills and Activities''' | '''Skills and Activities''' | ||
| − | + | Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [assignment 3 due] | |
==Session 01-July: Beyond the Literary Text== | ==Session 01-July: Beyond the Literary Text== | ||
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'''Texts''' | '''Texts''' | ||
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| + | Editions and Materials relating to ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' | ||
'''Skills and Activities''' | '''Skills and Activities''' | ||
| − | Literary Analysis and non-literary materials | + | Literary Analysis and non-literary materials, [assignment 3 returned] |
==Session 08-July: Term Paper Projects== | ==Session 08-July: Term Paper Projects== | ||
Latest revision as of 18:07, 24 November 2008
- Tue 14-16
- A01 0-004
- Anton Kirchhofer
The second part of the Basismodul focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering five parallel courses (supported by tutorials). Please make sure that you are registered under one of these in Stud.IP and open a wiki account which will enable you to participate in online discussions.
All parallel courses have a common structure. The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice. You will find information relating to your course under the individual course number and lecturer.
The "analytical tools" will be presented by the lecturers (on a handout) in each meeting. The additional reading from which these 'tools' are taken is not obligatory, and it can be done either before or after each session.
Both the texts and the other materials will be made accessible to you electronically (cf. the links below) and as a master copy at Wersig. In addition you will need to purchase two books:
William Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra [1623]. Ed. John Wilders. Arden Shakespeare. Third edition, [1995] 2002.
- ISBN 10-190-427101-4 ISBN 13-978-190427101-7
- ca. 14 EUR at the CvO bookshop
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [1886]. Ed. Katherine B. Linehan. New York: Norton, 2003.
- ISBN 10-039-397465-0 ISBN 13-978-039397465-2
- ca. 10 EUR at the CvO bookshop
Course work: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (in week 4, 7 and 11 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (due August 15 2008). The assignments are limited to a max. of 2-3 pages of text, formatted according to the style sheet, and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively. For the Research Paper Outline you will need to find your own topic to work on and document the preliminary work (this includes finding an appropriate title, writing a paragraph that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents as well as a short bibliography).
Tutorials will help you to practise your analysis skills and support you in doing your assignments and Research Paper Outline.
- Florian Gubisch, Mo 18 - 20, A10 1-121a
- Katrin Ischebeck, Mi 8 - 10, A10 1-121a
- Christina Stindl, Mi 12 - 14, A10 1-121 (Hörsaal F)
Contents
- 1 Session 08-Apr: A Poem
- 2 Session 15-Apr: Poetry and Poetics
- 3 Session 22-Apr: Poetry and Poetics: Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language
- 4 Session 29-Apr: Rhetoric
- 5 Session 06-May: Drama: Dramatic Structures
- 6 Session 13-May: Drama: Dramatic Communication
- 7 Session 20-May: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects
- 8 Session 27-May: Drama and Fiction
- 9 Session 03-June: Fiction 1
- 10 Session 10-June: Fiction 2
- 11 Session 17-June: Film
- 12 Session 24-June: Film
- 13 Session 01-July: Beyond the Literary Text
- 14 Session 08-July: Term Paper Projects
Session 08-Apr: A Poem
Texts
Skills and Activities
Group work with presentations:
- What is poetic about this poem?
- What are the themes of the poem?
- What historical contexts?
- What is its cultural significance (then and later/now)?
Seminar discussion: What discourses did you employ? What traditions do they belong to? How does this relate back to the lecture of the Winter Term? Survey of the coming term.
Session 15-Apr: Poetry and Poetics
Analytical Tools
- Handout Analysing Poetry 1
- Sources: Culler 161-178; Ludwig, 31-33; Cambridge Companion to Literatures in English
Texts
- Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from Astrophil and Stella
- Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in Truth" from Astrophil and Stella
- William Percy, "Sonnet II" from Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia
- William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXXX" from The Sonnets
- William Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet"
- Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing"
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Sonnet" from The House of Life
- Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from A Pageant and Other Poems
- Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
- Langston Hughes, "I, Too"
- Emily Dickinson, "This was a Poet"
- e.e. cummings, "pity this busy monster, manunkind"
and
Skills and Activities
Structural approach to poetry: communicative situation, themes, metrics and language. Acquire a basic checklist of what to look (first) for in a poem. Recapitulate the basics of metrics and rhyme patterns. Recognise the features of a particular genre and genre conventions: the sonnet.
Session 22-Apr: Poetry and Poetics: Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language
Analytical Tools
- Ludwig, 47-60
- Leech, 147-157
- Handout: Figurative Speech
Texts
- George Herbert. "The Deniall" The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. University of Cambridge, T. Buck and R. Daniel, 1633.
Skills and Activities
Figurative language, interplay. Spot metaphors, similes, etc. the metric pattern and valorise the points where it is broken. Reinforce basic checklist of previous week. Analyse particular features of poetic language (figures of speech, metrical effects).
Assignment I: Poetry (Due: 29-Apr)
Session 29-Apr: Rhetoric
Analytical Tools
Texts
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1623) EEBO
In preparation please read especially Act IV, scene 14, (most of page 362 in the folio edition) and Act V, scene 2 (especially 5.2.206-327, end of page 366 and all of page 367 in the Folio). The scenes shows the deaths of Anthony and of Cleopatra respectively. As you read, look for rhetorical elements in the dialogue and speeches that precede Anthony's suicide, and look at how the language of the various characters differs.
Skills and Activities
A speech from the Shakespeare play -- be able to spot rhetorical [assignment 1 due]
Session 06-May: Drama: Dramatic Structures
Analytical Tools
Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147 Excerpt from Pfister
Handout: Analysing Dramatic Communication
Texts
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1623) EEBO
Skills and Activities
Exposition [assignment 1 returned]
Session 13-May: Drama: Dramatic Communication
Analytical Tools
Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147 Excerpt from Pfister
Handout: Analysing Dramatic Communication
Texts
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1623) EEBO
Skills and Activities
Session 20-May: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects
Analytical Tools
Texts
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1623) EEBO
Skills and Activities
Assignment II: Drama (Due: May 27)
Session 27-May: Drama and Fiction
Analytical Tools
- Aristotle, The Art of Poetry, trans. Dacier (1705)
- Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Art of Poetry (1687)
Texts
- Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Skills and Activities
An understanding of genres in the context of traditional poetics, and of the transition from poetic genres to literary genres. [assignment 2 due]
Session 03-June: Fiction 1
Analytical Tools
Handout: Narratology
Texts
- Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Skills and Activities
Narration, Focalisation. [assignment 2 returned]
Session 10-June: Fiction 2
Analytical Tools
Handout: Narratology
Texts
- Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Film showing: June 10, 2008
Watch Fight Club with your peers and teachers
- Venue: HS 2
- Time: 19.45-22.15
Assignment III: Fiction (Due: 24-June)
Session 17-June: Film
Analytical Tools
- Handout: Film Analysis
- David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)
Texts
- David Fincher, Fight Club (1999)
Skills and Activities
Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis.
Session 24-June: Film
Analytical Tools
- Handout: Film Analysis
- David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)
Texts
- David Fincher, Fight Club (1999)
- Elaine Showalter. "Dr Jekyll's Closet." Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas (Eds.). The Haunted Mind. The Supernatural in Victorian Literature. London: Scarecrow Press, 1999, 67-88.
Skills and Activities
Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [assignment 3 due]
Session 01-July: Beyond the Literary Text
Analytical Tools
Texts
Editions and Materials relating to Anthony and Cleopatra
Skills and Activities
Literary Analysis and non-literary materials, [assignment 3 returned]
Session 08-July: Term Paper Projects
Skills and Activities
Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects
Term Paper Projects (Due: Aug 15)
