2023-24 MM Literary History and Literary Studies

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• Modul: ang902, ang622, pb113, pb114
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik

• Course: Literary History and Literary Studies
• Time: Thursday 14.30-16.00h
• Venue: A13 0-027

• Course Description: This course is designed to accompany the lecture ‘Introduction to Literary History and Textual Analysis’ with additional discussions of the ideas, theories, and texts mentioned there. The course is meant to add to students' construction of a ‘narrative’ of this field, or, in other words, to students’ understanding of the history and culture of literary studies as an academic discipline. Why do we read certain texts? Why do we read them with certain ‘analysis tools’? Each week, we will discuss the contents of the lecture and read texts that will open up this perspective, e.g., by Jonathan Culler, Olaf Simons, Ian Hunter, Catherine Gallagher, etc.

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PLEASE NOTE that you will have to visit both the lecture and the course (Thursday, 12.15-14.15h and 14.30-16.00h).

• Course Requirements

• Requirements for 3 KP: active attendance (incl. a RPO)
• Requirements for 6 KP: active attendance (incl. a RPO) and an (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), based on the topic of the seminar.
• As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:

    Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
    - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
    - Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten) 
    - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch:
      *Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen (Gruppenarbeit) und 
      *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 20. Jan), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).

Session 1: 19 October

• Introduction: What is Literary Studies, the Humanities, the Liberal Arts? Based on a Discussion of During (2022) and Gelder (2022)
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout Traditions in our discourse about literature

Session 2: 26 October

• Reading: Jonathan Culler

Session 4: 9 November

• Reading: Kirchhofer, "The Focault Complex" (2017)

Session 12: 18 January

  [Hand in RPO until 20 Jan 2023]

Session 14: 01 February

• how to write a research paper: Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies
• discussion of research paper topics
• feedback on evaluation

  [Hand in research papers until 15 March 2023]

Outline Lecture (VL Kirchhhofer)

• 19.10.2023 – Lecture: “Introduction and Overview. What Is Literature? What Do We Do with Literature?”
• 26.10.2023 – Lecture: “What Do We Do with Literature? – Examples and Practices” – Recap and Practical Unit
• 02.11.2023 – Lecture: “Working with Literature: Rules and Practices” (online)
• 09.11.2023 – practice week (research tutorials instead of lecture) – Recap and Practical Unit (with tutors)
• 16.11.2023 – Lecture: “Literature in Historical Context: Poetry and Rhetoric”
• 23.11.2023 – Lecture: “Literature in Historical Context: Drama”
• 30.11.2023 – practice week (research tutorials instead of lecture) – Recap and Practical Unit (with tutors)
• 07.12.2023 – Lecture: “Literature and Literary Theory: A Survey”
• 14.12.2023 – practice week (research tutorials instead of lecture) – Recap and Practical Unit (with tutors)
• 21.12.2023 – Lecture Recaps, Historical and Practical Unit: Theoretical Perspectives on the History of Shakespeare Performance, Editing, and Interpretation // Christmas Break //
• 11.01.2024 – Lecture: “Literature in Historical Context: Narrative Fiction”
• 18.01.2024 – Lecture: Recap, Historical and Practical Unit – Changing historical contexts and conceptions of Narrative and Fiction. Changes in narrative conventions. Famous Passages from Famous Novels.
• 25.01.2024 – Lecture: “Working with Literature: Preparing to write a Research Paper”
• 01.02.2023 – Lecture Series Recap and Practical Unit

Tools

• Handout Analysing Poetry
• Handout Rhetoric
• Handout Analysing Dramatic Communication
• Handout Narratology
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture and Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Discourse
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Identity
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Media
• Handout Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout (Non-)literary texts
• Handout Excerpt
• Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies

Recommended Primary Reading

Note that there will be no 'primary reading' in the strict sense. However, we will take a look at extracts from various primary texts taught as part of the basis module this term as well as in the previous terms. Ideally, familiarize yourself with the Reading List in British and Anglophone Literatures. The main reading in this course will be theoretical and secondary texts.

Secondary and Further Reading

• Hanlon, Aaron R. "The Ends of Literary Studies." The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences. Eds. Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
• Kirchhofer, Anton. “The Foucault Complex. A Review of Foucauldian Approaches in Literary Studies. ZAA 45.4 (1997): 277-299.