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'''Please note''': The BM1 (literature) and BM2 (culture) modules consist of a seminar and a tutorial each. All students beginning in the winter term 2009/10 need to enroll for one of the tutorials called "Reasearch Methods". Additionally, you will choose between a seminar under BM 1 (literature) or BM 2 (culture) for the winter term and then study the other one in the summer term. In the summer term you will enroll for the second tutorial, "Exploring History and Theory".
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'''Please note''': The BM1 (literature) and BM2 (culture) modules consists of a seminar and a tutorial. All students beginning in the winter term 2009/10 need to enroll for one of the tutorials called "Reasearch Methods". Additionally, you will choose between a seminar under BM 1 (literature) or BM 2 (culture) for the winter term and then study the other one in the summer term.  
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*3.02.011 Course A - [[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]]  
 
*3.02.011 Course A - [[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]]  
 
*3.02.012 Course B - [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]]  
 
*3.02.012 Course B - [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]]  
 
*3.02.013 Course C - [[User:Michaela Koch|Michaela Koch]]
 
*3.02.013 Course C - [[User:Michaela Koch|Michaela Koch]]
 
*3.02.014 Course D - [[User:Michaela Koch|Michaela Koch]]  
 
*3.02.014 Course D - [[User:Michaela Koch|Michaela Koch]]  
*3.02.015 Course E - Christian Lassen
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*3.02.015 Course E - [[User:Christian Lassen|Christian Lassen]]
*3.02.016 Research Methods -  
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*3.02.017 Research Methods -
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*3.02.016, Freitag, 16:00-18:00, Sören Niewint
*3.02.018 Research Methods -  
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*3.02.017, Freitag, 12:00-14:00, Britta Simon
*3.02.019 Research Methods -  
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*3.02.018, Mittwoch, 16:00-18:00, Fabian Nattkämper
*3.02.026 Research Methods -  
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*3.02.019, Dienstag, 14:00-16:00, Sharif Bitar
*3.02.027 Research Methods -  
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*3.02.026, Dienstag, 14:00-16:00, Alice Gorel
*3.02.028 Research Methods -  
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*3.02.027, Montag, 08:00-10:00, Katharina Kaschel
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*3.02.028, Dienstag, 18:00-20:00, Lea Brenningmeyer
  
The seminar part of the Basismodul focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering five parallel courses. Please make sure that you are registered under ONE of these in Stud.IP and open a [[Help:Account|wiki account]] which will enable you to participate in online discussions.
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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.
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The seminar part of the Basismodul 1 focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering five parallel courses. Please make sure that you are registered under ONE of these in Stud.IP and open a [[Help:Account|wiki account]] which will enable you to participate in online discussions.
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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.
  
 
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.
 
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.
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'''Courses A-E''':
 
'''Courses A-E''':
*William Shakespeare. ''Hamlet'' [1603]. Eds. Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson. London: Arden (3rd Series), 2000.
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*William Shakespeare. ''Hamlet''. 1603. Eds. Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson. London: Arden (3rd Series), 2000.
*James, Henry. ''Turn of the Screw'' [1898].  
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*Henry James. ''Turn of the Screw''. 1898. Eds. Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren. New York, London: Norton, [2] 1999.  
 
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[[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|Course work]]: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (in session 5, 8 and 13 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (Due: 12.03.2010). The assignments are limited to a max. of 2-3 pages of text, formatted according to the [[Literary Studies:Style sheet|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).
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Tutorials will help you to practise your analysis skills and support you in doing your assignments and Research Paper Outline.
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[[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|Course work]]: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (max. 3 pages, in session 4, 7 and 12 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due: 28.02.2010). The assignments are to be formatted according to the [[Literary Studies:Style sheet|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 on the state of the art of your problem and one that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents as well as a short bibliography).
  
 
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Two useful links for all assignments:
 
Two useful links for all assignments:
*[[Survive Assignments]]
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*[[Useful Hints for Assignments]]
*[[Literary Studies:Writing academic texts]] - good for the research paper outline
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*[[Literary Studies:Writing academic texts]] - esp. for the research paper outline
  
  
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/bm1_poetry_reader.pdf Poetry Reader] includes:
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2009_10_bm1_poetry_reader.pdf Poetry Reader] includes:
#Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" (1899)
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#[[Sir Philip Sidney, Loving in Truth (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in Truth" from ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591)]]
#[[Langston Hughes, I, Too (1925)|Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925)]]
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#[[Sir Philip Sidney, Not at first sight (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591)]]
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#[[William Percy, Sonnet II (1594)|William Percy, "Sonnet II" from ''Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia'' (1594)]]
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#[[William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXX (1609)|William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXXX" from ''The Sonnets'' (1609)]]
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#[[George Herbert, The Deniall (1633)|George Herbert, "The Deniall" (1633)]]
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#[[William Wordsworth, Scorn Not the Sonnet (1827)|William Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet" (1827)]]
 
#[[Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing" (1867)]]
 
#[[Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing" (1867)]]
#John Donne: “Holy Sonnet XIV” (1633)
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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'' (1881)]]
#John Milton: “Sonnet VII” (1645)
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#[[Langston Hughes, I, Too (1925)|Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925)]]
#John Milton: “Sonnet XIX” (1673)
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#[[Edward Estlin Cummings, Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind (1944)|e.e. Cummings, "Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind" (1944)]]
#Stevie Smith: “The Galloping Cat”
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
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Preliminaries for seminar communication.
 
Preliminaries for seminar communication.
  
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''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.
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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 Three, Nov 02-06: Poetry 2==
 
==Session Three, Nov 02-06: Poetry 2==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
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*Handout: [[Figurative Speech]]
* Handout [[Analysing Poetry 1]]
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*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2005_ludwig__lyrikanalyse.pdf Ludwig, 47-60]; [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_leech__poetry.pdf Leech, 147-157]
* Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1975_culler__structuralist_poetics.pdf Culler 161-178]; [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2005_ludwig__lyrikanalyse.pdf Ludwig, 31-33]; Cambridge Companion to Literatures in English
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''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.
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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).
  
==Session Four, Nov 09-13: Poetry 3==
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      [[2009-10 BM1 Assignment 1: Poetry|Assignment I: Poetry]] (distributed on 6 Nov, due on 13 Nov)
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==Session Four, Nov 09-13: Rhetoric==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2005_ludwig__lyrikanalyse.pdf Ludwig, 47-60]
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*Handout: [[Rhetoric]]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_leech__poetry.pdf Leech, 147-157]
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*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1979_plett__einfuehrung.pdf Plett 3-22, 102-105]
*Handout: [[Figurative Speech]]
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*[[Heinrich F. Plett, Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse (1971)|Excerpt from Plett]]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*Poetry Reader
 
  
'''Skills and Activities'''
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*Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603], esp. I.5.1-91.
  
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).
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'''Skills and Activities'''
  
      2008-09 BM1 Assignment 1: Poetry|Assignment I: Poetry (Due: xxx)
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A speech from the Shakespeare play [assignment 1 due]
  
 
==Session Five, Nov 16-20: Drama 1==
 
==Session Five, Nov 16-20: Drama 1==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1979_plett__einfuehrung.pdf Plett 3-22, 102-105]
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*Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]]
*[[Heinrich F. Plett, Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse (1971)|Excerpt from Plett]]
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*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147]
*Handout: [[Rhetoric]]
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*[[Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (1977)|Excerpt from Pfister]]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
 
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*Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]
*Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611)
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
A speech from the Shakespeare play
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Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition. [assignment 1 returned]
  
 
==Session Six, Nov 23-27: Drama 2==
 
==Session Six, Nov 23-27: Drama 2==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
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*Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 183 - 195]
  
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147]
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'''Texts'''
[[Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (1977)|Excerpt from Pfister]]
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Handout: [[Analysing Dramatic Communication]]
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*Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]
  
'''Texts'''
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'''Skills and Activities'''
*Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611)
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'''Skills and Activities'''
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Characters and Genre Aspects.
  
Dramatic Structures and Communication, Exposition [assignment 1 due]
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      '''NOTE: Distribution of assignment 2 postponed to Dec 4th!'''
  
 
==Session Seven, Nov 30-Dec 04: Drama 3==
 
==Session Seven, Nov 30-Dec 04: Drama 3==
  
'''Analytical Tools'''
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*Additional session on Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]
  
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 183 - 195]
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    [[2009-10 BM1 Assignment 2: Drama|Assignment II: Drama]] (distributed on 4 Dec, due on 11 Dec)
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==Session Eight, Dec 7-11: Critical Debate and Literary Theory 1 & Dec 9: Film Screening==
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'''History and Variety of Editions of Shakespeare's Hamlet''',
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'''History of scholarly and public interest in Shakespeare as a person and an author'''
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'''Postmodern conceptions of text and authorship'''
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'''Material'''
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf Major Theoretical Approaches and Movements in Relation to Wider Social Issues] and
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
  
*Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611)
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*Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2000_shakespeare-handbuch_biography.pdf Ina Schabert (Ed.), ''Das Shakespeare-Handbuch'', 120-133 (Biography).]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2000_shakespeare-handbuch_verfasserschaft.pdf Ina Schabert (Ed.), ''Das Shakespeare-Handbuch'', 185-193 (Verfasserschaftstheorien).]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2000_shakespeare-handbuch_editionsgeschichte.pdf Ina Schabert (Ed.), ''Das Shakespeare-Handbuch'', 196-243 (Editionsgeschichte).]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1967_foucault_what_is_an_author.pdf Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?".] -- In Foucault's essay, concentrate on pages 108 - 113, where the four characteristics of the ''author function'' are discussed, and look especially at the third characteristic which is described on pages 110 and 111.
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Characters and Genre Aspects
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  '''Film Screening''': [[Terry Gilliam (dir.), 12 Monkeys  (1995 film)]],
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  Venue: HS G, Time: Wed, 9 Dec, 19.45-22.15
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[assignment 2 due, Dec 11, 12 o'clock]
  
==Session Eight, Dec 07-11: Literary Theory==
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==Session Nine, Dec 14-18: Film Analysis==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
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*Handout: [[Film Analysis]]
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*Sources: David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1976_greenblatt_learning_to_curse.pdf Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century." ''First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old''. Ed. Fredi Chiappelli. Berkeley: U of California P, 1976. Vol.2. 561-80.]
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* [[Terry Gilliam (dir.), 12 Monkeys  (1995 film)]]
*see also:
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* [http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/12-Monkeys.html 12 Monkeys, Film script on IMDB]
:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
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:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
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:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf] and
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:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Postcolonial Studies
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Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [Fiction worksheet] [assignment 2 returned]
  
      2008-09 BM1 Assignment 2: Drama|Assignment II: Drama (Due: xxx)
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==Session Ten, Jan 04-08: Fiction 1==
 
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==Session Nine, Dec 14-18: Film Screening==
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[[Terry Gilliam (dir.), 12 Monkeys  (1995 film)]]
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:*Venue: tba
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:*Time: tba
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==Session Ten, Jan 04-08: Film Analysis==
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'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
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*Handout: [[Narratology]]
* Handout: [[Film Analysis]]
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*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 6, 72-86]
* David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)
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*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
 
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*Henry James, Turn of the Screw [1898]
*Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (1979)
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* Essay on Apocalypse Now in: Moore, Gene M., ''Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: a Casebook'', place: publ., 183-196.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis.
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Narration, Focalization.  
  
[assignment 2 due]
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==Session Eleven, Jan 11-15: Fiction 2==
 
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  Übungsblatt (practice sheet on research techniques) deadline: first session in January!
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==Session Eleven, Jan 11-15: Fiction 1==
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'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
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*Handout: [[Narratology]]
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan 72-86]
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*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 5, 59-71]
 
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[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
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Handout: [[Narratology]]
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
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*Henry James, Turn of the Screw [1898]
  
*Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
 
  
'''Skills and Activities'''
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Characterization.
  
Narration, Focalisation. [assignment 2 returned]
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        [[2009-10 BM1 Assignment 3: Fiction|Assignment III: Fiction]] (distributed on 15 Jan, due on 22 Jan)
  
      2008-09 BM1 Assignment 3: Fiction|Assignment III: Fiction (Due: xxx)
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==Session Twelve, Jan 18-22: Critical Debate and Literary Theory 2==
  
==Session Twelve, Jan 18-22: Fiction 2==
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'''Material'''
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf Major Theoretical Approaches and Movements in Relation to Wider Social Issues] and
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]
  
'''Analytical Tools'''
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'''Texts'''
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2003_hanson_screwing_with_children.pdf Hanson, Ellis. "Screwing with Children in Henry James". ''GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'' 9:3(2003): 367-391.]
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'''Skills and Activities'''
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'''Skills and Activities'''
  
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan 59-71]
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[assignment 3 due]
  
Handout: [[Narratology]]
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==Session Thirteen, Jan 25-29: Look Back and Look Ahead: Textual Analysis and Wider Research Debates==
  
'''Texts'''
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'''Skills and Activities'''
  
*Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
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Picking up loose ends (Hamlet, Turn of the Screw, Ghosts etc.)
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How to write a Research Paper Project. [assignment 3 returned]
  
==Session Thirteen, Jan 25-29: Beyond the Literary Text or Recapitulation==
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==Session Fourteen, Feb 01-05: Term Paper Projects==
 
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'''Analytical Tools'''
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'''Texts'''
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1978_achebe_an_image_of_africa.pdf Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa." ''Research in African Literatures'' 9.1. Special Issue on Literary Criticism. (Spring, 1978): 1-15.]
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Literary Analysis and non-literary materials,
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Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects
  
[assignment 3 due]
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      [[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 4: Research Paper Outline|Assignment 4: Term Paper Projects (Due: 28.02.2010)]]
  
==Session Fourteen, Feb 01-05: Term Paper Projects==
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==Discussing Term Paper Projects, Feb 16==
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On Tuesday, Feb 16, at 16.45, there will be an opportunity to discuss further questions about term paper projects with students and myself ([[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]]).
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We can meet in my office (A6 2-210). If more than 5 students come, we can move to A6 2-212.
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Just come along or enter you name here:
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:*[[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]]
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:*...
  
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
  
Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects [assignment 3 returned]
 
  
      [http://wiki.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php/BM1_-_Introduction_to_Literature_-_Assignment_4:_Research_Paper_Outline Assignment 4: Term Paper Projects (Due: 12.03.2010)]
 
  
 
==Further Reading==
 
==Further Reading==
*[[William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611)]]
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*[[William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)]]
*[[Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)]]
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*[[Henry James, Turn of the Screw (1898)]]
*[[Francis Ford Coppola (dir.), Apocalypse Now (1979 film)]]
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*[[Terry Gilliam (dir.), 12 Monkeys (1995 film)]]
  
  
 
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[[Category:Winter 2009-2010|2009-1]]

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Please note: The BM1 (literature) and BM2 (culture) modules consist of a seminar and a tutorial each. All students beginning in the winter term 2009/10 need to enroll for one of the tutorials called "Reasearch Methods". Additionally, you will choose between a seminar under BM 1 (literature) or BM 2 (culture) for the winter term and then study the other one in the summer term. In the summer term you will enroll for the second tutorial, "Exploring History and Theory".


  • 3.02.016, Freitag, 16:00-18:00, Sören Niewint
  • 3.02.017, Freitag, 12:00-14:00, Britta Simon
  • 3.02.018, Mittwoch, 16:00-18:00, Fabian Nattkämper
  • 3.02.019, Dienstag, 14:00-16:00, Sharif Bitar
  • 3.02.026, Dienstag, 14:00-16:00, Alice Gorel
  • 3.02.027, Montag, 08:00-10:00, Katharina Kaschel
  • 3.02.028, Dienstag, 18:00-20:00, Lea Brenningmeyer

The seminar part of the Basismodul 1 focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering five parallel courses. 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.

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). In addition you will need to purchase two books.

Courses A-E:

  • William Shakespeare. Hamlet. 1603. Eds. Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson. London: Arden (3rd Series), 2000.
  • Henry James. Turn of the Screw. 1898. Eds. Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren. New York, London: Norton, [2] 1999.

Course work: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (max. 3 pages, in session 4, 7 and 12 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due: 28.02.2010). The assignments are to be 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 on the state of the art of your problem and one that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents as well as a short bibliography).


Two useful links for all assignments:


Session One, Oct 19-23: Literature and Education

Welcome

Texts

  1. Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in Truth" from Astrophil and Stella (1591)
  2. Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from Astrophil and Stella (1591)
  3. William Percy, "Sonnet II" from Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594)
  4. William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXXX" from The Sonnets (1609)
  5. George Herbert, "The Deniall" (1633)
  6. William Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet" (1827)
  7. Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing" (1867)
  8. Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
  9. Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925)
  10. e.e. Cummings, "Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind" (1944)

Skills and Activities

Preliminaries for seminar communication.

Session Two, Oct 26-30: Poetry 1

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Poetry Reader

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 Three, Nov 02-06: Poetry 2

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Poetry Reader

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 (distributed on 6 Nov, due on 13 Nov)

Session Four, Nov 09-13: Rhetoric

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603], esp. I.5.1-91.

Skills and Activities

A speech from the Shakespeare play [assignment 1 due]

Session Five, Nov 16-20: Drama 1

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]

Skills and Activities

Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition. [assignment 1 returned]

Session Six, Nov 23-27: Drama 2

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]

Skills and Activities

Characters and Genre Aspects.

     NOTE: Distribution of assignment 2 postponed to Dec 4th! 

Session Seven, Nov 30-Dec 04: Drama 3

  • Additional session on Shakespeare, Hamlet [1603]
   Assignment II: Drama (distributed on 4 Dec, due on 11 Dec)

Session Eight, Dec 7-11: Critical Debate and Literary Theory 1 & Dec 9: Film Screening

History and Variety of Editions of Shakespeare's Hamlet, History of scholarly and public interest in Shakespeare as a person and an author Postmodern conceptions of text and authorship

Material

Texts

  • Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?". -- In Foucault's essay, concentrate on pages 108 - 113, where the four characteristics of the author function are discussed, and look especially at the third characteristic which is described on pages 110 and 111.

Skills and Activities

  Film Screening: Terry Gilliam (dir.), 12 Monkeys  (1995 film), 
  Venue: HS G, Time: Wed, 9 Dec, 19.45-22.15

[assignment 2 due, Dec 11, 12 o'clock]

Session Nine, Dec 14-18: Film Analysis

Analytical Tools

  • Handout: Film Analysis
  • Sources: David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)

Texts

Skills and Activities

Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [Fiction worksheet] [assignment 2 returned]

Session Ten, Jan 04-08: Fiction 1

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Henry James, Turn of the Screw [1898]

Skills and Activities

Narration, Focalization.

Session Eleven, Jan 11-15: Fiction 2

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Henry James, Turn of the Screw [1898]


Characterization.

       Assignment III: Fiction (distributed on 15 Jan, due on 22 Jan)

Session Twelve, Jan 18-22: Critical Debate and Literary Theory 2

Material

Texts

Skills and Activities Skills and Activities

[assignment 3 due]

Session Thirteen, Jan 25-29: Look Back and Look Ahead: Textual Analysis and Wider Research Debates

Skills and Activities

Picking up loose ends (Hamlet, Turn of the Screw, Ghosts etc.) How to write a Research Paper Project. [assignment 3 returned]

Session Fourteen, Feb 01-05: Term Paper Projects

Skills and Activities

Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects

     Assignment 4: Term Paper Projects (Due: 28.02.2010)

Discussing Term Paper Projects, Feb 16

On Tuesday, Feb 16, at 16.45, there will be an opportunity to discuss further questions about term paper projects with students and myself (Anton Kirchhofer). We can meet in my office (A6 2-210). If more than 5 students come, we can move to A6 2-212. Just come along or enter you name here:



Further Reading