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&mdash; Wich is the ultimate periodisation?
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[[Pat Rogers (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987)|Pat Rogers (ed.), ''The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature'' (1987)]]<hr>
 
[[Pat Rogers (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987)|Pat Rogers (ed.), ''The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature'' (1987)]]<hr>
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&mdash; What is fiction? Why do we have an 18th century "rise of the novel"?
 
&mdash; What is fiction? Why do we have an 18th century "rise of the novel"?
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)|Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1387-1400).]] Esp.: General Prologue and Shipman's Tale<hr>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)|Geoffrey Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1387-1400).]] Esp.: General Prologue and Shipman's Tale<hr>
[[Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485)|Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' [1471] (1485).]] Esp.: Caxton's preface and book 5<hr>
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[[Jehan de Mandeville, Voyages (c.1370)]]<hr>
 
[[Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)|Daniel DeFoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719).]]
 
[[Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)|Daniel DeFoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719).]]
 
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Revision as of 21:43, 6 April 2009

Schedule


Session Date Topic Reading Presentation
1 April 7, 2009 Course Outline. Lecture BM1: Course outline
2 April 14, 2009 Literary Theory

— Will literary historians ever establish a final view?

Texts

Lecture BM1: Literary Theory
3 April 28, 2009 Literary History

— Which is the ultimate periodisation?

Pat Rogers (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (1987)
William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694).

John Goldsmith, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC. (1800).

Lecture BM1: Literary History
4 April 28, 2009 Concepts of Literature

— What is literature?

Aristotle, The Art of Poetry [c. 350 BC] (1705)
Pierre-Daniel Huet, The history of romances (1670)
The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774).

Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to the History of English Literature (1863).

Lecture BM1: Concepts of literature
5 May 5, 2009 From Beowulf to the Last Man, Fiction 1

— What is fiction? Why do we have an 18th century "rise of the novel"?

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1387-1400). Esp.: General Prologue and Shipman's Tale
Jehan de Mandeville, Voyages (c.1370)

Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Lecture BM1: Fiction, 1
6 May 12, 2009 Fiction, 2

— The order of Fictions

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872). Lecture BM1: Fiction, 2
7 May 19, 2009 Fiction, 3

— The modern novel, a field of intense debate

Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988). Lecture BM1: Fiction, 3
8 May 26, 2009 Drama, I

— From the middle ages to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606). Lecture BM1: Drama, 1
9 June 2, 2009 Drama, II

— From the restoration to the present.

William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675).

Edward Bond, Saved (1965)

Lecture BM1: Drama, 2
10 June 9, 2009 Poetry

— Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.

William Blake, Jerusalem (1804).

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922).

Lecture BM1: Poetry
11 June 16, 2009 Round up

— What have we done?

Lecture BM1: Round up
12 June 23, 2009 Written Test Lecture BM1: Written Test
13 June 30, 2009 Tutorial: Research Paper Outline, Evaluation Lecture BM1: RPO
14 July 7, 2009 Feed back

— What was it good for?

Lecture BM1: Feedback

Portfolio Requirements

The Portfolio for the entire module (parts 1 and 2) includes 6 items:

  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 2 -- 3 KP:
  • 3 textanalytische Aufgaben (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) (Week 4, 7, and 10 of term)
  • 1 Research Paper Outline (benotet, 20% der Modulnote) (date due: August 15, 2008 [Winter Term: March 1, 2008].

We created a special page to reflect what we are aiming at - with this course and the studies in literature we offer at the university of Oldenburg.