2013-14 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature

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Please note: The ang070/BM7 module consists of

  • a seminar ("Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature"),
  • a tutorial ("Research Methods", offered in the current winter term),
  • a seminar ("Key Concepts in Cultural Studies", offered in the following summer term), and
  • a lecture ("Historical Background and Critical Concepts", offered in the following summer term).

All students beginning in the winter term 2013/14 need to enroll 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".


Seminars

  • 3.02.070 - Almke Ratjen - Thu, 08:00-10:00 Room A 06 0-001
  • 3.02.071 - Anna Auguscik - Fri, 08:00-10:00 Room A 01 0-010b
  • 3.02.072 - Michaela Keck - Thu, 12:00-14:00 Room A 06 0-001
  • 3.02.073 - Michaela Keck - Fri, 08:00 - 10:00 Room A 01 0-010a
  • 3.02.074 - Michaela Koch - Thu, 14:00 - 16:00
  • 3.02.075 - Michaela Koch - Thu, 16:00-18:00
  • 3.02.076 - Christian Lassen - Thu, 12:00 - 14:00 Room A 01 0-010a
  • 3.02.077 - Christian Lassen - Thu, 10:00-12:00 Room A 01 0-010b
  • 3.02.078 - Christian Lassen - Wed, 18:00-20:00 Room A 01 0-010b
  • 3.02.079 - Michaela Keck - Thu, 08:00-10:00 Room S 2-205

Tutorials

  • 3.02.080 - Tutor: In Bearbeitung
  • 3.02.081 - Tutorin: Nele Wieting - Tue, 18:00-20:00 Room: A06 4-418
  • 3.02.082 - Tutorin: Levke Höpner - Tue, 18:00-20:00 Room: V02 0-004
  • 3.02.083 - Tutor: Birger Hansen - Mon, 10:00-12:00 Room: A09 0-018
  • 3.02.084 - Tutorin: Annika Petersohn - Mon, 10:00-12:00 Room: A14 1-114
  • 3.02.085 - Tutorin: Tanja Withey - Wed, 18:00-20:00 Room: V02 0-003
  • 3.02.086 - Tutorin: Sophia Pauline Schepker-Thiele - Wed, 18:00-20:00 Room: A14 1-113
  • 3.02.087 - Tutor: Sharif Niazi - Mon, 18:00-20:00 Room: V02 0-003
  • 3.02.088 - Tutorin: Kerstin Doerfel - Thu, 12:00-14:00 Room: V04 1-146
  • 3.02.089 - Tutorin: Patrizia Striowsky - Mon, 8:00-10:00 Room: S 2-205

The seminar part of the Basismodul 7 focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering eight 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:

  • William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Eds. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. The Arden Shakespeare, third series. London: A&C Black, 2005.
  • Henry James. The Turn of the Screw. Eds. Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren. New York and London: Norton, 1999.

Course work: You will be asked to hand in three exercise assignments (max. 3 pages, due on November 11/14/15, December 05/06 and January 16/17 respectively), complete a Written Test, and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due on February 28). The assignments are to be formatted according to the style sheet, and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively, one of which will be tested at the end of the term (Written Test). 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, October 17/18: Introduction

'Welcome

Texts

Skills and Activities

Preliminaries for seminar communication.

Session Two, October 24/25: Analysing Poetry I: Poetic Conventions, Rhyme and Metre

Analytical Tools

Texts

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, October 31/ November 01: Analysing Poetry II: Figurative Speech

Analytical Tools

Texts

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).

Session Four, November 07/08: Analysing Poetry III: Close Reading

Analytical Tools

Texts

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

Session Five, November 14/15: Analysing Drama I: Rhetoric

Analytical Tools


Texts

  • William Shakespeare Hamlet

Skills and Activities

A speech from the Shakespeare play


Assignment I due

Session Six, November 21/22: Analysing Drama II: Dramatic Communication and Plot Structure

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare Hamlet

Skills and Activities

Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition.

Session Seven, November 28/29: Analysing Drama III: Characterisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • William Shakespeare Hamlet

Skills and Activities

Characters and Genre Aspects.

[Assignment II: Drama]

Session Eight, December 05/06: Critical Debate and Literary Theory I

Material

Texts

Skills and Activities

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.


Assignment II due

Session Nine, December 12/13: Analysing Fiction I: Narration and Focalisation

Analytical Tools


Texts

  • Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

Skills and Activities

Narration, Focalization.

Session Ten, December 19/20: Analysing Fiction II: Characterisation

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

Skills and Activities

Characterisation.

Session Eleven, January 09/10: Analysing Fiction III: Close Reading

Analytical Tools

Texts

  • Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

Skills and Activities

Close Reading

  [Assignment III: Fiction]

Session Twelve, January 16/17: Critical Debate and Literary Theory II

Material

Texts

Skills and Activities

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.


Assignment III due

Session Thirteen, January 23/24: RPO Projects

Skills and Activities

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


     Assignment 4: Research Paper Outline 

Session Fourteen, January 30/31: Recap

     Written Test: February, 01st, 12-2, A14 HS 1 and 2