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* '''Time:''' Di 14-16
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* '''Place:''' A14 1-102 (Hörsaal 2)
 
* '''Place:''' A14 1-102 (Hörsaal 2)
 
* '''Lecturers:''' [[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]], [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
 
* '''Lecturers:''' [[User:Anton Kirchhofer|Anton Kirchhofer]], [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
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* '''Tutorials:''' visit [[Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Lecture Course: Tutorials]]
 
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==Written Test 2009==
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Follow this link for a preview of the complex question and other information on the [[Written Test 2008]]
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==Schedule==
 
==Schedule==
*To get through to the EEBO and ECCO-links on this page you have to either use a campus login or your ''national license'' - if you have not got one you can get your registration at the Göttingen SUB. Click [http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssg-nl-reg/ here] to register.
 
  
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Course Outline.
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|BM1 Curriculum]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 1|Session 1]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Course outline]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Invention of History<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Literary Theory<br>
&mdash; Different views on the periodization of literature.
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&mdash; Will literary historians ever establish a final view?
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1997_culler_literary_theory_appendix.pdf Culler, Jonathan. "Appendix: Theoretical Schools and Movements". ''Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction''. OUP 1997]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/LitTheory-and-wider-issues-Timeline2-2009-04-13.pdf Literary Theory and wider issues timeline]
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*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/Literary+Theory.ppt Powerpoint presentation: Literary Theory]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Literary Theory]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Literary History<br>
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&mdash; Which 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>
 
[[William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694)|William Salmon, ''The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694'' (1694).]]<hr>
 
[[William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694)|William Salmon, ''The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694'' (1694).]]<hr>
 
[[John Goldsmith, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC. (1800)|John Goldsmith, ''An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC.'' (1800).]]
 
[[John Goldsmith, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC. (1800)|John Goldsmith, ''An almanack for the year of our Lord God, M.DCCC.'' (1800).]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 2|Session 2]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Literary History]]
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[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/BM1-2009-04-21-lit-hist.ppt Presentation]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left" nowrap|April 28, 2009
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Rise of Literature, Part I<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Concepts of Literature<br>
&mdash; What the term literature meant in Defoe's days and how our modern meaning of the word developed.
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&mdash; What is literature?
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Aristotle, Poetics (350 BC)|Aristotle, ''The Art of Poetry'' [c. 350 BC] (1705)]]<hr>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Aristotle, Poetics (350 BC)|Aristotle, ''The Art of Poetry'' [c. 350 BC] (1705)]]<hr>
 
[[Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)|Pierre-Daniel Huet, ''The history of romances'' (1670)]]<hr>
 
[[Pierre Daniel Huet, Traitté de l’origine des romans (1670)|Pierre-Daniel Huet, ''The history of romances'' (1670)]]<hr>
[[The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774)|''The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature'' (1774).]]
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[[The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature (1774)|''The modern dictionary of arts and sciences; or, complete system of literature'' (1774).]]<hr>
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 3|Session 3]]
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[[Hippolyte Taine, Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1863)|Hippolyte Taine, ''Introduction to the History of English Literature'' (1863).]]
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[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/BM1-2009-04-28-lit.ppt Presentation]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|The Rise of Literature, Part II<br>
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&mdash; The complex discourse about literature: literary histories, national philologies and an exchange supported by the media.
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Hippolyte Taine, Histoire de la littérature anglaise (1863)|Hippolyte Taine, ''Introduction to the History of English Literature'' (1863).]]<hr>
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[[Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485)|Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' [1471] (1485).]] Esp.: Caxton's preface and book 5
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 4|Session 4]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part I<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|From Mandeville's ''Voyages'' to the ''Robinson Crusoe'', Fiction 1<br>
&mdash; The "rise of the novel".
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&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>
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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).]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 5|Session 5]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Fiction, 1]]<br>
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[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/BM1-2009-05-05-early-modern-novel.ppt Presentation]<br>
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel Novel]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part II<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Fiction, 2<br>
 
&mdash; The order of Fictions
 
&mdash; The order of Fictions
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872)|George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-1872).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872)|George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-1872).]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 6|Session 6]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Fiction, 2]]<br>[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/BM1-vl-19c-fiction.ppt Presentation]<br>
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel Novel]<br>
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Epic Poetry, Dubious History and the Novel, Part III<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Fiction, 3<br>
 
&mdash; The modern novel, a field of intense debate
 
&mdash; The modern novel, a field of intense debate
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988)|Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988)|Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 7|Session 7]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Fiction, 3]]<br>[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/BM1-vl-session-7-novel-c20-AK-09-05-19.ppt Presentation]<br>
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel Novel]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, Part I<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, I<br>
 
&mdash; From the middle ages to Shakespeare
 
&mdash; From the middle ages to Shakespeare
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606)|William Shakespeare, ''King Lear'' (1606).]]
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606)|William Shakespeare, ''King Lear'' (1606).]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 8|Session 8]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Drama, 1]]<br>[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/BM1-vl-8_shakespeare-09-05-25-AK.ppt Presentation]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, Part II<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Drama, II<br>
 
&mdash; From the restoration to the present.
 
&mdash; From the restoration to the present.
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)|William Wycherley, ''The Country Wife'' (1675).]]<hr>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)|William Wycherley, ''The Country Wife'' (1675).]]<hr>
 
[[Edward Bond, Saved (1965)|Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965)]]
 
[[Edward Bond, Saved (1965)|Edward Bond, ''Saved'' (1965)]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 9|Session 9]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Drama, 2]]<br>
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[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/BM1-2009-06-02-drama2.ppt Presentation]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Poetry<br>
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Poetry<br>
 
&mdash; Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.
 
&mdash; Once a broad field comprising epic, drama and smaller genres, today a subsection of literature.
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[William Blake, Jerusalem (1804)|William Blake, ''Jerusalem'' (1804).]]<hr>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/lbprose.html#preface William Wordsworth, Preface to ''Lyrical Ballads'', (rev. ed. 1802).]<br>
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[http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1804)]<hr>
 
[[T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)|T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922).]]
 
[[T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)|T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922).]]
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 10|Session 10]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: Poetry]]<br>
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[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/BM1-vl-session10-poetry-09-06-08.ppt Presentation]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Literary Theory, Part I<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Round up<br>
&mdash; What is literature? Different debates and different answers.
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&mdash; What have we done?
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 11|Session 11]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1, Summer 2009: Round up]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Written Test
 
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Written Test
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|
|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 12|Session 12]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1, Summer 2009: Written Test]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Feedback on Test and Look Ahead
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Obligatory Tutorials: Another Look at your Research Paper Outlines. Course Evaluation
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 13|Session 13]]
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[Lecture BM1: RPO]]
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Literary Theory, Part II<br>
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|Feedback on Written Test; Feedback on Course Evaluation<br>
&mdash; Debate or field of learning?
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&mdash; What was it all for?
 
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|bgcolor="#efefef" valign="top" align="left"|[[2007-08 BM1: Session 14|Session 14]]
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The Portfolio for the entire module (parts 1 and 2) includes 6 items:
 
The Portfolio for the entire module (parts 1 and 2) includes 6 items:
  
*Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 1 -- 3 KP:
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*Portfolio requirements for BM1, Vorlesung -- 3 KP:
:*1 Übungsblatt mit [[Exzerpt eines primär- und eines Sekundärtexts (unbenotet)]] -- date due: January 15, 2008
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:*1 Written Test (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) -- June 23, 2009.
:*1 Written Test (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) -- January 22, 2008.
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*Portfolio requirements for BM1, Teil 2 -- 3 KP:
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*Portfolio requirements for BM1, Übung -- 3 KP:
 
:*3 textanalytische Aufgaben (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) (Week 4, 7, and 10 of term)
 
:*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].
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:*1 Research Paper Outline (benotet, 20% der Modulnote) (date due: March 1, 2009).
 
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:*1 Übungsblatt mit [[Exzerpt eines primär- und eines Sekundärtexts (unbenotet)]] -- due: January 2009
Click [[2007-08 BM1: Session 1|here]] for further information about the structure of this course and the portfolio requirements.
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We created a [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|special page]] to reflect what we are aiming at - with this course and the studies in literature we offer at the university of Oldenburg.  
 
We created a [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|special page]] to reflect what we are aiming at - with this course and the studies in literature we offer at the university of Oldenburg.  
 
==Tutorials==
 
The tutorials have their own page at [[2007-08 BM1 Tutorials]]
 
  
 
[[Category:Basismodul]]
 
[[Category:Basismodul]]
[[Category:Winter 2007-2008|2008-1]]
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[[Category:Sommer 2009|2009-2]]
 
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==Fragen und Antworten aus dem Tutorium==
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ich schiebe die Debatte mal rüber auf die [[Talk:2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1|Diskussionsseite]].
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Latest revision as of 20:20, 29 June 2009

Schedule


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

— Will literary historians ever establish a final view?

Lecture BM1: Literary Theory
3 April 21, 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

Presentation

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

Presentation

5 May 5, 2009 From Mandeville's Voyages to the Robinson Crusoe, 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

Presentation
Novel

6 May 12, 2009 Fiction, 2

— The order of Fictions

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871-1872). Lecture BM1: Fiction, 2
Presentation

Novel

7 May 19, 2009 Fiction, 3

— The modern novel, a field of intense debate

Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses (1988). Lecture BM1: Fiction, 3
Presentation

Novel

8 May 26, 2009 Drama, I

— From the middle ages to Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606). Lecture BM1: Drama, 1
Presentation
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

Presentation

10 June 9, 2009 Poetry

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

William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, (rev. ed. 1802).
William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1804)

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

Lecture BM1: Poetry

Presentation

11 June 16, 2009 Round up

— What have we done?

Lecture BM1, Summer 2009: Round up
12 June 23, 2009 Written Test Lecture BM1, Summer 2009: Written Test
13 June 30, 2009 Obligatory Tutorials: Another Look at your Research Paper Outlines. Course Evaluation Lecture BM1: RPO
14 July 7, 2009 Feedback on Written Test; Feedback on Course Evaluation

— What was it all for?

Lecture BM1: Feedback

Portfolio Requirements

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

  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Vorlesung -- 3 KP:
  • 1 Written Test (benotet, 40% der Modulnote) -- June 23, 2009.
  • Portfolio requirements for BM1, Übung -- 3 KP:

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.