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Tutorials:
 
Tutorials:
  
The lecture and course is part of the Basismodul 7 an focuses on key concepts in cultural studies and techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing culture. This part of the BM7 is structured in 6 subsequent lectures on ''Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts'' followed by 7 courses on ''Key Concepts of Cultural Studies''. Please make sure that you are registered for the lecture and ONE of the courses in Stud.IP and open a [[Help:Account|wiki account]] which will enable you to participate in online discussions.
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The lecture and course is part of the Basismodul 7 an focuses on key concepts in cultural studies and techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing culture. This part of the BM7 is consists of 6 lectures on ''Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts'' which are structure into three conceptual blocks:
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* Block I: The Formation of historical peroids in literary and cultural studies
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* Block II: Primary facts and moments in the study of cultural and literary history
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* Block III: Concepts of Cultural Studies
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The lectures are followed by 7 courses on ''Key Concepts of Cultural Studies''. Please make sure that you are registered for the lecture and ONE of the courses in Stud.IP and open a [[Help:Account|wiki account]] which will enable you to participate in online discussions.
  
 
The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice.
 
The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice.
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/poetry_reader.pdf Poetry Reader] includes:
 
#[[Sir Philip Sidney, Loving in Truth (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in Truth" from ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591)]]
 
#[[Sir Philip Sidney, Not at first sight (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591)]]
 
#[[William Percy, Sonnet II (1594)|William Percy, "Sonnet II" from ''Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia'' (1594)]]
 
#[[William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXX (1609)|William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXXX" from ''The Sonnets'' (1609)]]
 
#[[George Herbert, The Deniall (1633)|George Herbert, "The Deniall" (1633)]]
 
#[[William Wordsworth, Scorn Not the Sonnet (1827)|William Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet" (1827)]]
 
#[[Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing" (1867)]]
 
#[[Christina Rossetti, I wish I could remember (1881)|Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from ''A Pageant and Other Poems'' (1881)]]
 
#[[Langston Hughes, I, Too (1925)|Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925)]]
 
#[[Edward Estlin Cummings, Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind (1944)|e.e. Cummings, "Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind" (1944)]]
 
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
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Preliminaries for seminar communication.
 
Preliminaries for seminar communication.
  
==Session Two, November 10-11: Analysing Poetry I: Poetic Conventions, Rhyme and Metre==
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==Session Two, April 25: ==
  
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
* Handout [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_analysing_poetry.pdf Analysing Poetry]
 
* 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
 
 
'''Texts'''
 
*Poetry Reader
 
  
 
'''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.
 
  
==Session Three, November 17-18: Analysing Poetry II: Figurative Speech==
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==Session Three, May 3: ==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_figurative_speech.pdf Figurative Speech]
 
*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]
 
 
'''Texts'''
 
*Poetry Reader
 
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''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).
 
 
    [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/2011_12_wise_assignment1_poetry.pdf Assignment I: Poetry (distributed on Nov 18, due on Nov 25)]
 
  
==Session Four, November 24-25: Analysing Drama I: Rhetoric==
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==Session Four, May 10: ==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_rhetoric.pdf Rhetoric]
 
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1979_plett__einfuehrung.pdf Plett 3-22, 102-105]
 
*[[Heinrich F. Plett, Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse (1971)|Excerpt from Plett]]
 
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare, ''As You Like It''.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
A speech from the Shakespeare play
 
  
==Session Five, December 1-2: Analysing Drama II: Dramatic Communication and Plot Structure==
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==Session Five, May 17: ==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_analysing_dramatic_communication.pdf Analysing Dramatic Communication]
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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]
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*[[Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (1977)|Excerpt from Pfister]]
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare, ''As You Like It''.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition.
 
  
==Session Six, December 8-9: Analysing Drama III: Characterisation==
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==Session Six, May 24: ==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_analysing_dramatic_communication.pdf Analysing Dramatic Communication]
 
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 183 - 195]
 
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare, ''As You Like It''.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Characters and Genre Aspects.
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==Session Seven, May 31: ==
  
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'''Material'''
  
    [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/2011_12_wise_assignment2_drama.pdf Assignment II: Drama (distributed on Dec 9, due on Dec 16)]
 
 
==Session Seven, December 15-16: Critical Debate and Literary Theory I==
 
 
'''Material'''
 
*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_timeline_1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
 
*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_timeline_1b.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
 
*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_timeline_2.pdf Major Theoretical Approaches and Movements in Relation to Wider Social Issues] and
 
*[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'''
* [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/1990_greenblatt_critical_terms_for_literary_studies.pdf Greenblatt, Stephen. "Culture." ''Critical Terms for Literary Studies.'' Ed. Lentricchia, Frank. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990. 252-32. Print.]
 
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.
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==Session Eight, June 7: ==
 
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  '''Film Screening''': Blade Runner; Wed, 21.Dec, 8-10pm, in A07 (Hörsaal G).
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'''Analytical Tools'''
  
  
==Session Eight, December 22-23: Film Analysis: Themes and Techniques==
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'''Texts'''
  
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_film_analysis.pdf Film Analysis]
 
*Link to glossary of terms by Mark Bischoff (based on Monaco): [http://www.filmglossar.de/glossarypdf.htm Glossary]
 
*Sources:
 
::Monaco, James. ''How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia: Language, History, Theory.'' 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
 
::Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. ''Film Art. An Introduction.'' 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009.
 
::Korte, Helmut: ''Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse. Ein Arbeitsbuch.'' 3. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2004.
 
 
'''Texts'''
 
* Ridley Scott (dir.), ''Blade Runner''
 
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [Fiction worksheet]
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==Session Nine, June 14: ==
 
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==Session Nine, January 12-13: Analysing Fiction I: Narration and Focalisation==
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'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_narratology.pdf Narratology]
 
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 6, 72-86]
 
*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
 
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein''.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Narration, Focalization.
 
  
==Session Ten, January 19-20: Analysing Fiction II: Characterisation==
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==Session Ten, June 21: ==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_narratology.pdf Narratology]
 
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 5, 59-71]
 
*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
 
  
 
'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein''.
 
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Characterisation.
 
  
    [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/2011_12_wise_assignment3_narratology.pdf Assignment III: Fiction] (distributed on January 20, due on January 26-7) Please find the assignment in your Stud.IP group.
 
  
==Session Eleven, January 26-27: Analysing Fiction III: Close Reading==
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==Session Eleven, June 28: ==
  
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
 
'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_narratology.pdf Narratology]
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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], [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 6, 72-86]
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*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein''.
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'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
  
Close Reading
 
  
==Session Twelve, February 2-3: Critical Debate and Literary Theory II==
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==Session Twelve, July 5: ==
  
 
'''Material'''
 
'''Material'''
*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_timeline_1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
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*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_timeline_1b.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
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*[http://www.anglistik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/BM7/handout_littheory_movements_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]
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'''Texts'''
 
'''Texts'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2006_reese_frankenstein_human_rights.pdf Reese, Diana. "A Troubled Legacy, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Inheritance of Human Rights." ]
 
  
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.
 
 
          
 
          
==Session Thirteen, February 9-10: Recap==
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==Session Thirteen, July 12: ==
 
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    Written Test: Saturday, February 11, 2012, 10-12 h, HS 1
 
  
  
==Session Fourteen A, February 16-17: RPO Projects==
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==Session Fourteen A, July 19: RPO Projects==
  
 
'''Skills and Activities'''
 
'''Skills and Activities'''

Revision as of 17:44, 24 February 2012

    PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NOT ALL INFORMATION IS VERIFIED AND RELIABLE YET.


Please note: The BM7 module consists of

  • a seminar ("Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature"),
  • a tutorial ("Research Methods", offered in the previous winter term) and
  • a combined lecture and seminar course ('Key Concepts of Cultural Studies').

All students beginning in the winter term 2011/12 need to have enrolled for one of the tutorials called "Reasearch Methods", and a seminar in BM 7. Registration is via Stud.IP.

If you have already completed parts, but not the entire Basismodul in literary and/or cultural studies in previous semesters, please contact Michaela Koch.

On this page you will find detailed information on the eight courses of our seminar "Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature".


Lecture: Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts

  • 3.02.030 - Anton Kirchhofer, Martin Butler - Thu, 18:00-20:00, A14 1-102 (Hörsaal 2)


Course: Key Concepts in Cultural Studies

  • 3.02.031 - Martin Butler - Thu, 12:00-14:00, Room: tba
  • 3.02.032 - Anton Kirchhofer - Thu, 12:00-14:00, Room: tba
  • 3.02.033 - Christian Lassen - Thu, 12:00-14:00, Room: tba
  • 3.02.034 - Christian Lassen - Mi, 12:00-14:00, V02 0-003
  • 3.02.035 - Michaela Keck - Thu, 18:00-20:00, Room: tba
  • 3.02.036 - Michaela Koch - Thu, 18:00-20:00, Room: tba
  • 3.02.037 - Michaela Koch - Fr, 10:00-12:00, A01 0-010 b
  • 3.02.038 - Daniel Glade - Thu, 18:00-20:00, V02 0-004

Tutorials:

The lecture and course is part of the Basismodul 7 an focuses on key concepts in cultural studies and techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing culture. This part of the BM7 is consists of 6 lectures on Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts which are structure into three conceptual blocks:

  • Block I: The Formation of historical peroids in literary and cultural studies
  • Block II: Primary facts and moments in the study of cultural and literary history
  • Block III: Concepts of Cultural Studies

The lectures are followed by 7 courses on Key Concepts of Cultural Studies. Please make sure that you are registered for the lecture and ONE of the courses in Stud.IP and open a wiki account which will enable you to participate in online discussions.

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 XXXX:


Course work: You will be asked to complete a Written Test (Date: tba), and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due on Aug 15). 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, April 19: Introduction

'Welcome

Texts

Skills and Activities

Preliminaries for seminar communication.

Session Two, April 25:

Skills and Activities


Session Three, May 3:

Analytical Tools

Skills and Activities


Session Four, May 10:

Analytical Tools

Texts


Skills and Activities


Session Five, May 17:

Analytical Tools


Texts


Skills and Activities


Session Six, May 24:

Analytical Tools

Texts


Skills and Activities

Session Seven, May 31:

Material


Texts

Skills and Activities

Session Eight, June 7:

Analytical Tools


Texts


Skills and Activities

Session Nine, June 14:

Analytical Tools

Texts


Skills and Activities


Session Ten, June 21:

Analytical Tools

Texts

Skills and Activities


Session Eleven, June 28:

Analytical Tools


Texts


Skills and Activities


Session Twelve, July 5:

Material


Texts


Skills and Activities

Session Thirteen, July 12:

Session Fourteen A, July 19: RPO Projects

Skills and Activities

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


     Assignment 4: Research Paper Outline (due on 28. 02.2012)