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Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

2009-04-28T21:43:29Z

A.alberts: /* open access websites */

* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v1.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 1 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900601&srchtp=a&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828699&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]
* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v2.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 2 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900602&srchtp=ra&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828988&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]

==Research==
do not only give links. Evaluate them!

===Wikipedia===
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano
* http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano

===open access websites===
a short biography of Olaudah Equiano, which could be useful for a first orientation
:*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
a very interesting and detailed page: it includes a map of Equianos travels,an annotated bibliography of Equiano studies, extracts from "the Interesting Narrative" and this page discusses the question of Equiano´s place of birth. Furthermore we can find other useful weblinks on Equiano. A very useful page for research on Equiano.
:*http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
this page includes a short summary and a timeline of the life of Olaudah Equiano. This page offers some starting points for interpretation and discussion and also some weblinks.
:*http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm

===Restricted access===
:* the [http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/dbis/ Databases provided on campus]
:* the [http://www.ibit.uni-oldenburg.de/18034.html e-Journals provided on Campus]

*ECCO?

===Campus library===

===Inter-library loan===

[[Category:18th century|1789]]
[[Category:1780s|1789]]
[[Category:By author|Equiano, Olaudah]]

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

2009-04-28T21:42:58Z

A.alberts: /* open access websites */

* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v1.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 1 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900601&srchtp=a&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828699&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]
* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v2.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 2 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900602&srchtp=ra&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828988&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]

==Research==
do not only give links. Evaluate them!

===Wikipedia===
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano
* http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano

===open access websites===
a short biography of Olaudah Equiano, which could be useful for a first orientation
:*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
a very interesting and detailed page: it includes a map of Equianos travels,an annotated bibliography of Equiano studies, extracts from "the Interesting Narrative" and this page discusses the question of Equiano´s place of birth. Furthermore we can find other useful weblinks on Equiano. A very useful page for research on Equiano.
:*http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
this page includes a short summary and a timeline of the life of Olaudah Equiano. This page offers some starting points for interpretation and discussion and also some weblinks.
:*http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm
Annika Alberts 21:42, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

===Restricted access===
:* the [http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/dbis/ Databases provided on campus]
:* the [http://www.ibit.uni-oldenburg.de/18034.html e-Journals provided on Campus]

*ECCO?

===Campus library===

===Inter-library loan===

[[Category:18th century|1789]]
[[Category:1780s|1789]]
[[Category:By author|Equiano, Olaudah]]

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

2009-04-28T21:42:34Z

A.alberts: /* open access websites */

* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v1.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 1 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900601&srchtp=a&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828699&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]
* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v2.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 2 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900602&srchtp=ra&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828988&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]

==Research==
do not only give links. Evaluate them!

===Wikipedia===
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano
* http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano

===open access websites===
a short biography of Olaudah Equiano, which could be useful for a first orientation
:*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
a very interesting and detailed page: it includes a map of Equianos travels,an annotated bibliography of Equiano studies, extracts from "the Interesting Narrative" and this page discusses the question of Equiano´s place of birth. Furthermore we can find other useful weblinks on Equiano. A very useful page for research on Equiano.
:*http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
this page includes a short summary and a timeline of the life of Olaudah Equiano. This page offers some starting points for interpretation and discussion and also some weblinks.
:*http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm
Annika Alberts

===Restricted access===
:* the [http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/dbis/ Databases provided on campus]
:* the [http://www.ibit.uni-oldenburg.de/18034.html e-Journals provided on Campus]

*ECCO?

===Campus library===

===Inter-library loan===

[[Category:18th century|1789]]
[[Category:1780s|1789]]
[[Category:By author|Equiano, Olaudah]]

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

2009-04-28T21:37:59Z

A.alberts: /* open access websites */

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

2009-04-28T21:11:30Z

A.alberts: /* open access websites */

* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v1.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 1 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900601&srchtp=a&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828699&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]
* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v2.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 2 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900602&srchtp=ra&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828988&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]

==Research==
do not only give links. Evaluate them!

===Wikipedia===
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano
* http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano

===open access websites===
a short biography of Olaudah Equiano, which could be useful for a first orientation
:*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
:*http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
:*http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm

===Restricted access===
:* the [http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/dbis/ Databases provided on campus]
:* the [http://www.ibit.uni-oldenburg.de/18034.html e-Journals provided on Campus]

*ECCO?

===Campus library===

===Inter-library loan===

[[Category:18th century|1789]]
[[Category:1780s|1789]]
[[Category:By author|Equiano, Olaudah]]

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

2009-04-28T21:11:02Z

A.alberts: /* open access websites */

* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v1.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 1 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900601&srchtp=a&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828699&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]
* [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/intro-to-literature/d/1789_Equiano_Interesting_Narrative-v2.pdf Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'', Part 2 (1789)] [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1596900602&srchtp=ra&SU=All&c=1&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CB3328828988&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=BN&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&n=10&d5=d6&ae=T140573+ ECCO]

==Research==
do not only give links. Evaluate them!

===Wikipedia===
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano
* http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiano

===open access websites===
a short biography of Olaudah Equiano, which can be useful for an first orientation
:*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
:*http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
:*http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm

===Restricted access===
:* the [http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/dbis/ Databases provided on campus]
:* the [http://www.ibit.uni-oldenburg.de/18034.html e-Journals provided on Campus]

*ECCO?

===Campus library===

===Inter-library loan===

[[Category:18th century|1789]]
[[Category:1780s|1789]]
[[Category:By author|Equiano, Olaudah]]

2009 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 2

2009-04-28T19:39:20Z

A.alberts: /* Session 3: Historical Contextualization */

*[[User:Annika McPherson|Annika McPherson]]
*[[User:Christina Meyer|Christina Meyer]]
*[[User:Julia Meier|Julia Meier]]
*[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]

See for part 1: [[2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1]]

__TOC__

==The individual Courses==
* Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, A06 0-001, Olaf Simons: 29 Participants
* Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum: A10 1-121a, Julia Meier
* Tu, 12:00 - 14:00, A10 1-121, Annika McPherson
* Tu, 16:00 - 18:00, A10 1-121a, Christina Meyer
* We, 16:00 - 18:00, A11 1-101, Annika McPherson
* We, 18:00 - 20:00, A06 0-001, Christina Meyer
* We, 18:00 - 20:00, A10 1-121, Olaf Simons: 24 Participants

==General Course Outline==
Cultural studies have seen major developments over the last two decades. These developments have not only transformed approaches to research methodology, but are also questioning existing understandings of related matters such as disciplinary boundaries, academic topics, questions of periodization, epochs, and categorization.
This is part 2 of the introductory module “Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies.” The “Übung” will be conducted in smaller groups and is designed to lead into practical work with materials.
Reading suggestions and additional texts will be made available on the reserve shelf (“Handapparat”) in the library and/or on Stud-IP.

Objectives of this “Übung” are to prepare students for participation in critical debates surrounding the historical contexts and modes of analysis of different cultural products of the Anglophone world by
*developing an understanding of the issues and questions dealt with in cultural studies
*developing the necessary (practical) skills for historical contextualization and cultural analysis
*applying these skills to selected topic areas and cultural products/phenomena in the context of historical developments and current critical debates

Students will become familiar with
*a variety of discourses and different conceptions of ‘history’ and ‘culture’
*historical and present day socio-cultural and political debates
*critical schools of thought
*media-specific forms and methods of cultural analysis

Students will
*research and assess relevant database information
*produce and discuss outlines of different source material and critical debates
*apply media-specific approaches for contextualization and analysis
*situate critical debates and methodological approaches
*position a cultural product within its wider context and current relevance
*formulate discourse- and context-specific questions for further research

This “Übung” is mandatory for BA students in Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Prerequisites:
*regular attendance
*mandatory session for everybody: May 19, 2009!!!
*two written assignments (60% of the overall grade for the module)

Language in class: English

==Tutorials==
*[[User:Jasmin Bashale]]
*[[User:Florian Gubisch]]: Mo 12 - 14, A10 1-121a
*[[User:Mark Lehoucka]]
*[[User:Manuel Saralidis]]: Mo 18 - 20, A01 0-009

==Session 1: Organisation and Introduction==
'''Handout'''
*[[Excerpt]]

*Methods and principles in Cultural Studies,
*explaining the outline of this course
*Text: Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustav Vassa, the African, Written By Himself''. 1789
*close reading of frontmatter & beginning of first chapter; structure of the book
* “Nationallizenzen” and ECCO

'''Homework'''
Read [[Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)]] either Norton Critical edition or pdf-files given on the page
*Vol. I, Ch. V-VI, (better: at least up to VI)
*Vol. II, Chaps. IX-X
*close readings
*read the [[Excerpt]] handout, look through the pdf files of the original text, gather information.

==Session 2: Text Analysis==
*discussing the mandatory readings

==Session 3: Historical Contextualization==
*clarifying the frameworks
*group work (material distributed in class)

'''Materials to look at as course preparation'''

:'''Two Spiritual Autobiographies'''
::*John Bunyan, ''The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired countrey'' London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, 1678. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s_Progress Wikipedia] [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=9726052&FILE=../session/1240138419_1570&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=44054&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO]
::*''An Account of Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman'' [...] ''to be communicated to the publick after his decease'' [...] ''the second edition, with additions from the author's original papers'' London: N. Cliff/ D. Jackson, 1711. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=0320400500&srchtp=b&c=26&SU=All&d2=1&docNum=CW3301250241&b0=remarkable+passages&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&ste=10&dc=tiPG&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]

:'''The three Parts of Robinson Crusoe'''
::*Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'' part 1: ''The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited''. London: W. Taylor, 1719. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=0653600100&srchtp=b&c=6&SU=All&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CW3313746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]
::*Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'' part 2: ''The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprizing accounts of his travels'' London: W. Taylor, 1719. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1293200400&srchtp=b&c=2&SU=All&d2=1&docNum=CW3317261405&b0=Robinson+crusoe&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&ste=10&dc=tiPG&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]
::*Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'' part 3: ''Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his vision of the angelick world. Written by himself'' London, W. Taylor. 1720 [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=0653600100&srchtp=b&c=6&SU=All&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CW3313746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]

'''Homework'''
*Get you share of the National license to access EEBO and ECCO. Click http://www.nationallizenzen.de to apply.
*Research – where can I find material?
:*Group 1: open access (e.g. the Internet),
:*http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
:*http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
:*http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm
:*Group 2: limited access (e.g. online databases),
:*Group 3: on campus library,
:*Group 4: inter-library loan

==Session 4: Research Methods==
'''Handout'''
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Research guide]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
*Evaluating the quality of research methods and materials
*Research Exercise: GVK Plus

'''Homework'''
*read the following article: Carretta, Vincent. “Defining a Gentlman: The Status of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.” Language Sciences 22 (2000): 385-399.

==Session 5: How to Read Secondary Literature==
'''Handouts'''
* [[Understanding Research]]
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Writing academic texts]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Vincent Carretta's article
:# structure
:# argumentation
:# how does the text deal with primary text?
:# how doe the article deal with a discussion that has evolved around the Equiano narrative?
:# how do I position myself with respect to the article

'''Assignment 1: DEADLINE: MAY 19, 2009'''
* Compile a Bibliography of secondary research on Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustav Vassa, the African, Written By Himself''. 1789
# Give a structured analysis of this bibliography:
:*Are there noticeable temporal gaps - remarkable intervals of no research?
:*Is it possible to connect topics of research to individual decades?
# Select and digest one article of this list
:* Try to place the article in the overview you gave in question one
:* Give a brief summary of its content and main argument

==Session 6: New Perspectives on Equiano==
'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Embedding Equiano in the concepts and approaches of Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora (e.g. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic)

==Session 7: ''9/11'' Naudet Brothers, Media Screening, May 19, 2009==
ATTENTION: mandatory for everybody
Room will be announced!

==Session 8: Documentary Film==
'''Handout'''
* [[Film Analysis]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
*Close analysis
*Medium “documentary film” – compared to “feature film”; finding a definition; narrative structure? art? fiction?

'''Homework'''
* Background reading

==Session 9: Representations of 9/11 ==
'''Handout'''
* Link

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Literature, film, artworks, photography…how does ‘culture’ deal with 9/11

'''Homework'''
* Probing research methods – what can I find out about critical discussions on these events?

==Session 10: Discourse==
'''Handout'''
* Link

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Roland Barthes and the Mythologies
* Reading and discussing 3 short articles
* 5 examples (e.g. photographic images)

==Session 11: Constructing/-edness of a Discourse==
'''Handout'''
* [[Discourse Analysis]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* How is a discourse of terror(ism) formed? The terrorist themselves; media; reception
* Comparative analysis of British newspapers
* Goal of the discourse formation ?

'''Homework'''
* to be announced

==Session 12: From Public to Academic Debates==
'''Handout'''
* Link

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* The terror attacks in the framework of multiculturalism
* Developing theses/statements
* Structure of an (argumentative) essay

'''Homework'''
* to be announced

==Session 13: Round-up==
'''Handout'''
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Writing academic texts]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Preparations for Assignment 2
* Evaluation, feedback

===Literature===

===Workload===
Assignment 2 (take-home):

Argumentative essay (approx. 4 computer-typed pages)

Your research essay has to state and develop a thesis/an argument based on a topic of your choice relating to either part 1 (Olaudah Equiano) or part 2 (9/11 and 7/7) of the "Übung." While developing a thesis/statement on a topic of your choice consider the following questions:
*What do you want to take issue with and why?
*What is your argument?
*How does your statement/thesis relate to the current scholarly debate? What is your position?
Based on your research of relevant primary and secondary sources, and with reference to the discussions and exercises during the semester you have to explain why it is important to take up one particular issue and how this issue relates to the current scholarly debate. Cite from the narrative to back up your answers.

Example: My contention is that in his autobiographical Narrative, Olaudah Equiano mimicks the voice of the colonized/other to subvert the British colonial – eurocentric – discourse. I agree with xyz, who claims that…However, I would go a step further an argue that Equiano’s Narrative is…

Format your essay according to the style sheet; you have to indicate quotations and give references, and you need to compile a bibliography at the end of your essay according to the style sheet.
For further reference: Aczel, Richard. How to Write an Essay. Stuttgart et al.: Klett, 2006.

'''Assignment 2: DEADLINE: August 01, 2009'''

2009 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 2

2009-04-28T19:37:47Z

A.alberts: /* Session 3: Historical Contextualization */

*[[User:Annika McPherson|Annika McPherson]]
*[[User:Christina Meyer|Christina Meyer]]
*[[User:Julia Meier|Julia Meier]]
*[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]

See for part 1: [[2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1]]

__TOC__

==The individual Courses==
* Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, A06 0-001, Olaf Simons: 29 Participants
* Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum: A10 1-121a, Julia Meier
* Tu, 12:00 - 14:00, A10 1-121, Annika McPherson
* Tu, 16:00 - 18:00, A10 1-121a, Christina Meyer
* We, 16:00 - 18:00, A11 1-101, Annika McPherson
* We, 18:00 - 20:00, A06 0-001, Christina Meyer
* We, 18:00 - 20:00, A10 1-121, Olaf Simons: 24 Participants

==General Course Outline==
Cultural studies have seen major developments over the last two decades. These developments have not only transformed approaches to research methodology, but are also questioning existing understandings of related matters such as disciplinary boundaries, academic topics, questions of periodization, epochs, and categorization.
This is part 2 of the introductory module “Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies.” The “Übung” will be conducted in smaller groups and is designed to lead into practical work with materials.
Reading suggestions and additional texts will be made available on the reserve shelf (“Handapparat”) in the library and/or on Stud-IP.

Objectives of this “Übung” are to prepare students for participation in critical debates surrounding the historical contexts and modes of analysis of different cultural products of the Anglophone world by
*developing an understanding of the issues and questions dealt with in cultural studies
*developing the necessary (practical) skills for historical contextualization and cultural analysis
*applying these skills to selected topic areas and cultural products/phenomena in the context of historical developments and current critical debates

Students will become familiar with
*a variety of discourses and different conceptions of ‘history’ and ‘culture’
*historical and present day socio-cultural and political debates
*critical schools of thought
*media-specific forms and methods of cultural analysis

Students will
*research and assess relevant database information
*produce and discuss outlines of different source material and critical debates
*apply media-specific approaches for contextualization and analysis
*situate critical debates and methodological approaches
*position a cultural product within its wider context and current relevance
*formulate discourse- and context-specific questions for further research

This “Übung” is mandatory for BA students in Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Prerequisites:
*regular attendance
*mandatory session for everybody: May 19, 2009!!!
*two written assignments (60% of the overall grade for the module)

Language in class: English

==Tutorials==
*[[User:Jasmin Bashale]]
*[[User:Florian Gubisch]]: Mo 12 - 14, A10 1-121a
*[[User:Mark Lehoucka]]
*[[User:Manuel Saralidis]]: Mo 18 - 20, A01 0-009

==Session 1: Organisation and Introduction==
'''Handout'''
*[[Excerpt]]

*Methods and principles in Cultural Studies,
*explaining the outline of this course
*Text: Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustav Vassa, the African, Written By Himself''. 1789
*close reading of frontmatter & beginning of first chapter; structure of the book
* “Nationallizenzen” and ECCO

'''Homework'''
Read [[Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)]] either Norton Critical edition or pdf-files given on the page
*Vol. I, Ch. V-VI, (better: at least up to VI)
*Vol. II, Chaps. IX-X
*close readings
*read the [[Excerpt]] handout, look through the pdf files of the original text, gather information.

==Session 2: Text Analysis==
*discussing the mandatory readings

==Session 3: Historical Contextualization==
*clarifying the frameworks
*group work (material distributed in class)

'''Materials to look at as course preparation'''

:'''Two Spiritual Autobiographies'''
::*John Bunyan, ''The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired countrey'' London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, 1678. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s_Progress Wikipedia] [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=9726052&FILE=../session/1240138419_1570&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&VID=44054&PAGENO=1&ZOOM=&VIEWPORT=&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR&HIGHLIGHT_KEYWORD= EEBO]
::*''An Account of Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman'' [...] ''to be communicated to the publick after his decease'' [...] ''the second edition, with additions from the author's original papers'' London: N. Cliff/ D. Jackson, 1711. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=0320400500&srchtp=b&c=26&SU=All&d2=1&docNum=CW3301250241&b0=remarkable+passages&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&ste=10&dc=tiPG&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]

:'''The three Parts of Robinson Crusoe'''
::*Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'' part 1: ''The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited''. London: W. Taylor, 1719. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=0653600100&srchtp=b&c=6&SU=All&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CW3313746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]
::*Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'' part 2: ''The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprizing accounts of his travels'' London: W. Taylor, 1719. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=1293200400&srchtp=b&c=2&SU=All&d2=1&docNum=CW3317261405&b0=Robinson+crusoe&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&ste=10&dc=tiPG&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]
::*Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'' part 3: ''Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his vision of the angelick world. Written by himself'' London, W. Taylor. 1720 [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=bis&d1=0653600100&srchtp=b&c=6&SU=All&df=f&d2=1&docNum=CW3313746641&b0=Robinson+crusoe&h2=1&vrsn=1.0&b1=KE&d6=1&d3=1&ste=10&stp=DateAscend&d4=0.33&n=10&d5=d6 ECCO]

'''Homework'''
*Get you share of the National license to access EEBO and ECCO. Click http://www.nationallizenzen.de to apply.
*Research – where can I find material?
:*Group 1: open access (e.g. the Internet),
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/lifeofolaudahequano.htm
:*Group 2: limited access (e.g. online databases),
:*Group 3: on campus library,
:*Group 4: inter-library loan

==Session 4: Research Methods==
'''Handout'''
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Research guide]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
*Evaluating the quality of research methods and materials
*Research Exercise: GVK Plus

'''Homework'''
*read the following article: Carretta, Vincent. “Defining a Gentlman: The Status of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.” Language Sciences 22 (2000): 385-399.

==Session 5: How to Read Secondary Literature==
'''Handouts'''
* [[Understanding Research]]
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Writing academic texts]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Vincent Carretta's article
:# structure
:# argumentation
:# how does the text deal with primary text?
:# how doe the article deal with a discussion that has evolved around the Equiano narrative?
:# how do I position myself with respect to the article

'''Assignment 1: DEADLINE: MAY 19, 2009'''
* Compile a Bibliography of secondary research on Olaudah Equiano, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustav Vassa, the African, Written By Himself''. 1789
# Give a structured analysis of this bibliography:
:*Are there noticeable temporal gaps - remarkable intervals of no research?
:*Is it possible to connect topics of research to individual decades?
# Select and digest one article of this list
:* Try to place the article in the overview you gave in question one
:* Give a brief summary of its content and main argument

==Session 6: New Perspectives on Equiano==
'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Embedding Equiano in the concepts and approaches of Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora (e.g. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic)

==Session 7: ''9/11'' Naudet Brothers, Media Screening, May 19, 2009==
ATTENTION: mandatory for everybody
Room will be announced!

==Session 8: Documentary Film==
'''Handout'''
* [[Film Analysis]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
*Close analysis
*Medium “documentary film” – compared to “feature film”; finding a definition; narrative structure? art? fiction?

'''Homework'''
* Background reading

==Session 9: Representations of 9/11 ==
'''Handout'''
* Link

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Literature, film, artworks, photography…how does ‘culture’ deal with 9/11

'''Homework'''
* Probing research methods – what can I find out about critical discussions on these events?

==Session 10: Discourse==
'''Handout'''
* Link

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Roland Barthes and the Mythologies
* Reading and discussing 3 short articles
* 5 examples (e.g. photographic images)

==Session 11: Constructing/-edness of a Discourse==
'''Handout'''
* [[Discourse Analysis]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* How is a discourse of terror(ism) formed? The terrorist themselves; media; reception
* Comparative analysis of British newspapers
* Goal of the discourse formation ?

'''Homework'''
* to be announced

==Session 12: From Public to Academic Debates==
'''Handout'''
* Link

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* The terror attacks in the framework of multiculturalism
* Developing theses/statements
* Structure of an (argumentative) essay

'''Homework'''
* to be announced

==Session 13: Round-up==
'''Handout'''
* [[Literary and Cultural Studies:Writing academic texts]]

'''Exercises & Discussions'''
* Preparations for Assignment 2
* Evaluation, feedback

===Literature===

===Workload===
Assignment 2 (take-home):

Argumentative essay (approx. 4 computer-typed pages)

Your research essay has to state and develop a thesis/an argument based on a topic of your choice relating to either part 1 (Olaudah Equiano) or part 2 (9/11 and 7/7) of the "Übung." While developing a thesis/statement on a topic of your choice consider the following questions:
*What do you want to take issue with and why?
*What is your argument?
*How does your statement/thesis relate to the current scholarly debate? What is your position?
Based on your research of relevant primary and secondary sources, and with reference to the discussions and exercises during the semester you have to explain why it is important to take up one particular issue and how this issue relates to the current scholarly debate. Cite from the narrative to back up your answers.

Example: My contention is that in his autobiographical Narrative, Olaudah Equiano mimicks the voice of the colonized/other to subvert the British colonial – eurocentric – discourse. I agree with xyz, who claims that…However, I would go a step further an argue that Equiano’s Narrative is…

Format your essay according to the style sheet; you have to indicate quotations and give references, and you need to compile a bibliography at the end of your essay according to the style sheet.
For further reference: Aczel, Richard. How to Write an Essay. Stuttgart et al.: Klett, 2006.

'''Assignment 2: DEADLINE: August 01, 2009'''

2007-08 AM Le Morte Darthur (1485)

2007-12-21T11:25:33Z

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* '''Time:''' Fridays 4-6 pm
* '''Place:''' A10 1-121a
* '''Contact:''' [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]

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===Excerpts/Summaries===
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The legendary King Arthur, the mysteries around his sword Excalibur, the stories of his quasi democratic Round Table, Arthur's tragic struggle between love, treason and an all too powerful enemy invading the British Isles have inspired the European audience at least since the early 12th century. The wave of Provencal, Middle High German and Middle English versified Arthurian romances composed around 1200 merged into the production of the first modern European prose romances in the 15th century which culminated - another century later - in the ''Amadis'', the "arch romance" devoured by ''Don Quixote''. The 17th and 18th centuries distanced themselves both from the erroneous histories related here and from the genre of romances they had inspired. A new interest arose at the beginning of the 19th century with the new nationalism of the age, its self proclaimed "romanticism", its quest for lost identities one could hope to find in the "dark ages". A rediscovery of "medieval" texts followed in which the Arthurian world offered the most interesting mythical images; it is today omnipresent as a cultural phenomenon with a mass production of fantasy novels, video games and movies.

The course will focus on William Caxton's edition of Sir Thomas Malroy's ''Le Morte Darthur'' first published in 1485 - most certainly not the elegant, witty and beautiful reading earlier versified romances provided, yet the text which most effectively compiled the plots of the preceding romantic production.

Why was there an audience for this book at the "beginning" of the "Modern Period"? How did it relate to the preceding production of romances and histories? How does it compare to the fashionable ''Amadis'' the next century was to love so much? How does it read within the context of the 19th and 20th century renaissance of the Arthurian world? The course will offer a cultural history of the text and its fictional world.

==Oct 26 2007: Introduction==
Brainstorming. Who needs what? Who is going to conclude this course with a piece of written work? Introduction History of Malory's Book.

==Nov 2, 2007: Reading into the (peculiar) text ==
Discussion of seminar topics - and advice to claim and specify them in the section bellow. We read into ''Le Morte Darthur'', Caxton's preface and chapters 1-3. Concepts of history, aspects of fatalism. Also: Great vowel shift and Caxton's spelling.

==Nov 9, 2007: Caxton's Book 1==
'''Homework:''' Read Book one. Seminar discussion: Arthur's dubious birth, miracles, reading experiences. Also: comparison with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table_%28film%29 ''Knights of the Round Table'' (1953)], the movie we eventually watched.

==Nov 16, 2007 ==
'''Homework:''' Three Groups read Books 2/3/4 .

'''Class:''' Discussion: Why have the Arthurian and Germanic mythological worlds become that attractive? - Fantasy, NS-Ideology, Lord of the Rings, Starwars. Simple option: We live in a complex time and need the simplified worlds.

Is it just about simplifications? Why has fate become such a topic?

Returning to ''Morte Darthur'' we wondered whether Malory's world is one of clear morality, open conflicts between good and evil. We read into the first books and tried to discuss passages to get a notion of good-evil options, and did not get a simple moralistic point at all.

==Nov 23, 2007 ==
'''Homework:''' Read Book 5.

'''Class:''' History vs. Epic. Is this a world of archaic dimensions?

==Nov 30, 2007 ==
We discussed how to take a fast way through the whole text and decided to divide p.250 ff (our edition) into sections of 20 pages - and to produce rather more detailed excerpts. If I remember correctly I have to read pp. 510-530 (and was the last to take my share). In Order to allow others to work with our excerpts we collected topics - on the basis of seminar work individual participants planned, that is they gave ideas of what kind of information they were interested in and wanted the others to look for.

[[User:Nico Zorn|Nico Zorn]] promised to give my table script of the individual questions into this wiki. If you want to quote interesting passages of Caxton's version so that others can work with them you will not have to type them from the page into the wiki. I provided an html version of Caxton's text at:

http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html

You can quote with copy and paste from this website (use : to indent) as in the following passage:

:Hit befel in the dayes of Vther pendragon when he was kynge of all Englond / and ſo regned that there was a myჳty duke in Cornewaill that helde warre ageynſt hym long tyme / And the duke was called the duke of Tyntagil

I'll create links for the individual books above. When reading your 20 pages, think of what might be interesting in the passages you read, so that we can later refer to your textual observations. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 20:28, 30 November 2007 (CET)

===Blackboard Script (topics of individual research)===
* Aspect of cheap entertainment (Chapbooks)
* Prophecies, predictions of what is to come, moments of reflection when things happened as predicted
* Marriage & Fidelity
* Violence & second thoughts
* Christianity and the heathen world, supernatural incidents, miracles, moments where other mythologies interfere (Herodes who has all male newborns killed and the attempt to kill Mordred as an infant
* Family ties and what they mean
* Gender roles
* Is this text historical or fictional, do we get proofs, sources, doubts second thoughts on the status of the stories. Is it a romance or a book of histories?
* Modern adaptations: key scenes (which that are is yet to be determined)
* Concepts of honour and morality in general and individual
:* Movie adaptations - where they create their own concepts of morality - what is a hero? what is honour?
:* The exploitation of the whole book - note if you come across stories of personnel you found in other contexts
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Not under all circumstances everything strange or noteworthy. Try to determine what importance the 20 pages you read might have for the whole.

--[[User:Nico Zorn|Nico Zorn]] 21:30, 30 November 2007 (CET) / --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:10, 1 December 2007 (CET)

==Dec 7, 2007 ==

==Dec 14, 2007 ==

==Dec 21, 2007 ==
I will offer a summary of Wolfram von Eschenbach's German ''Parzival'' (1200-1215) - we should try together to give a plot outline or rather an outline of the different plots of the grail quest in Malory's ''Morte Darthur''. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 18:56, 20 December 2007 (CET)

==Jan 11, 2007 ==

==Jan 18, 2008 ==

==Jan 25, 2008 ==

==Feb 1, 2008 ==

==Feb 6, 2008 ==

===Topics===

Those who are planning to join the seminar may contribute thoughts on what they'd like to do in the following list:

* Sources in Europe's mythology and history[[User:Katharina Debney|Katharina Debney]] 11:44, 23 November 2007 (CET)
* Foreshadowings - a world of predetermination [[User:Katharina K.|Katharina K.]] 21:31, 8 November 2007 (CET)
* Family ties [[User:BettinaKorte|BettinaKorte]] 22:26, 15 November 2007 (CET)
* Justice [[User:Johanna Ehrhardt|Johanna Ehrhardt]] 12:39, 9 November 2007 (CET) Johanna Ehrhardt
* The use of repetitive patterns
* Who has to solve the problem? - special and normal quests
* Love and gender relations [[User:Julia Mudder|Julia Mudder]] 18:05, 9 November 2007 (CET)
* Miracles and the Arthurian World
* Politics
* Marriage and fidelity[[User:Freya|Freya]] 09:06, 7 November 2007 (CET)
* The legitimation of violence [[User:Inga|Inga]] 13:34, 9 November 2007 (CET)
* The legitimation of power
* Christianity--What is its function in the stories? Christian Schultz-Brummer[[User:Nahl3372|Nahl3372]] 18:05, 7 November 2007 (CET)
*The Heroes at King Arthur's Court: Stereotypes or Individuals?--[[Annika Alberts]] 12:24, 21 December 2007 (CET)
*Battle Scenes
*Hidden and Lost Identities
* A Renaissance of Chivalry at the Beginning of the Modern Era
* Geography in Malory's ''Le More Darthur''
* The Public in Malory's ''Le More Darthur''
* ''Le More Darthur'' - History or Romance?
* The text which shaped our view of the medieval world: Malory's King Arthur and Mark Twain's ''Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court'' (1889)[[User:Ulrich K.|Ulrich K.]] 17:57, 29 November 2007 (CET)
* From Fantasy to video game Arthur's table round in modern culture (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media en.wikipedia.org] for modern adaptations of the sujet) [[User:Jens|Jens]] 11:05, 16 November 2007 (CET)
* King Arthur and the Amadis (Commercializing of King Arthur) --[[User:Sebastian Henatsch|Sebastian Henatsch]] 17:47, 10 November 2007 (CET)
* The presence of the Arthurian world in the world of chap books
* Individual ideas on Malory's ''King Arthur'' and modern versions and adaptations - be creative, propose topics and we will think about them

===Texts===

First of all: Read a German translation if you feel lost - I began my life with Middle English texts with a reading of Chaucer in German, which I then, a week later, combined with a second reading of the original. I read the original Chaucer aloud to get into the funny language (fill in your Plattdeutsch that helps), with the German text still in my mind I had little problems with the original and soon realised that I could from now onwards read such stuff without reading a German text before.

As to the English texts:

Malory's original manuscript is lost. For more than 400 years the edition Caxton had published in 1485 was the authoritative source. In 1934 the Winchester manuscript was discovered - a text between Malory's and Caxton's text. Traces of Caxton's ink have been found on the manuscript's leafs, Caxton knew the Winchester volume, he did, however, base his own edition on another, lost manuscript.

Modern scholarship has focused on the Winchester manuscript as the better text. The Norton Critical edition - it cost me 16 Euro a couple of months ago - is based on the Winchester manuscript; it includes, however, passages from Caxton's wherever his version is more detailed. The aim is a reconstruction of what might have been Malory's text, a text without omissions. The Norton edition is well commented and equipped with an extensive dictionary as well as a choice of critical articles. It does finally offer the most important sources Malory exploited. The Norton edition is my recommendation for all of you who like to work with a fully commented scientific edition.

I myself am more interested in Caxton's fist edition as published in 1485 and offered by EEBO - the text is, however, difficult to read:

* [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=22102180&FILE=../session/1183624385_29976&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (London: William Caxton, 1485)]

To facilitate things I offer an html-edition of the same text (scroll down a bit to get beyond the reproduction of the first page):

*[http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (1485) html-text of Caxton's edition]

My impression is that Caxton's is the easier text to read. The publisher focused on the plot, he lost some of the descriptions and he omitted some of the author's self referential remarks. Yet he structured his text and produced a straight forward version. My html-edition (also available as a word-file) is a simple transcript to be read with an additional list of difficult words to be found at [[Le Morte Darthur (1485):Dictionary]] - expand this list, wherever you miss words. I have contacted the Druckzentrum and they promised to provide a print-version of my Caxton html-edition by September. Contact me if you want to start your reading earlier and if you want to read the Caxton text. I will try to provide provisional copies in that case. We should also open Wiki-space at [[Le Morte Darthur (1485): Protagonists]] - for a who is who?

===Literature===

*Eugéne Vinaver, ''Malory'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929).

*Bennett, J. A. W. (ed.), ''Essays on Malory'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).

*Moorman, Charles, ''The Book of King Arthur. The Unity of Malory’s Morte Darthur'' (University of Kentucky Press, 1965).

*Matthews, William, ''The Ill-Famed Knight. A sceptical inquiry into the Identity of Thomas Malory'' (Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966).

*Lambert, Mark, ''Malory. Style and Vision in Le Morte Darthur'' (New Haven/ London: Yale University Press, 1975).

*Benson, Larry D., ''Malory’s Morte Darthur'' (Cambridge, Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 1976). 289 pp.

*Dillon, Bert, ''A Malory Handbook'' (Boston, Mass., G. K. Hall & Co., 1978).

*Ihle, Sandra Ness, ''Malory’s Grail Quest. Invention and Adaptation in Medieval Romance'' (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983).

*Whitaker, Muriel, ''Arthur’s Kingdom of Adventure. The World of Malory’s Morte Darthur'' (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer/ Barnes and Noble, 1984).

*Spisak, James W. (ed.), ''Studies in Malory'' (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications western Michigan University, 1985).

*Jackson Parins, Marylyn, ''Malory the Cristical Heritage'' (London/ New York: Routledge, 1988).

*McCarthy, Terence, ''Reading the Morte Darthur'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XX] (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988), 187 pp. third edition with new title: ''An Introduction to Malory'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XX] (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), 176 pp.

*Takamiya, Toshiyuki/ Brewer, Derek (eds.), ''Aspects of Malory'' (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer/ Rowman & Littlefield, 1991).

*Field, P. J. C., ''The Life an Times of Sir Thomas Malory'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XXIX] (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), 218 pp.

*Archibald, Elizabeth/ Edwards A. S. G. (eds.), ''A Companion to Malory'' (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), 252 pp. + Appendix

*Kraemer, Alfred Robert, ''Mallory’s Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography'' (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). 105 pp. + Notes

*Field, P. J. C., ''Malory: Texts and Sources'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XL] (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), 313 pp.

==Films==
* ''Knights of the Round Table'' (1953), based on ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' by Thomas Malory, with Robert Taylor as Lancelot, Ava Gardner as Guinevere, and Mel Ferrer in the role of Arthur. '''bought'''
*''Sword of Lancelot'' a.k.a. ''Lancelot and Guinevere'' (1963), a film directed by Cornel Wilde and starring Mr. Wilde as Lancelot, Jean Wallace as Guinevere, and Brian Aherne as Arthur.
* ''The Sword in the Stone'', a 1963 Disney animated film about Arthur's childhood, loosely adapted from T.H. White's take on the legend.
* ''Camelot'', a 1967 film adaptation of the successful 1960 Broadway musical of the same name. It starred Richard Harris as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot.
* ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), a comedic parody of the traditional King Arthur legend. It was later adapted into a successful Broadway musical called ''Spamalot''. Arthur was played by the late Graham Chapman in the film.
* John Boorman's ''Excalibur'' (1981), based largely on Malory and probably the highest rated serious Arthurian film. It features Nicol Williamson as Merlin and Helen Mirren as Morgan Le Fay.
* ''First Knight'' (1995), a movie based on the abduction of Guinevere by the knight Malagant. It featured Sean Connery as Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.
* ''Quest for Camelot'', an animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation, released in 1998, features King Arthur ruling over a besieged Camelot.
* ''King Arthur'', a motion picture released on July 7, 2004, claiming (despite being heavily criticised for its historical inaccuracies) to be more historically accurate about the legend of Arthur as a 5th century, British-born, Roman Commander, with respect to new archaeological findings; similar in story line to Jack Whyte's books. '''bought'''
*''The Last Legion'' (2007) - a film about the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus who survives his fall from power and finds a new life in Britain. The movie links Romulus to the legends of King Arthur. In this movie, Arthur's father Uther Pendragon is brought up by a Roman general and a Malayalee woman (Aishwarya Rai)
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The list is incomplete as Percival, Tritram and Isolde (got one movie of that) and Lancelot-stuff will belong into the same field. We might skip animated movies. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 21:21, 11 November 2007 (CET)

===Links===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory en.wikipedia.org: Thomas Malory]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur en.wikipedia.org: Le Morte d'Arthur]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur en.wikipedia.org: King Arthur]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media en.wikipedia.org: King Arthur in various media]
*[[King Arthur: Films]]
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/lookup.html The electronic Middle English Dictionary]

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2007-08 AM Le Morte Darthur (1485)

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===Excerpts/Summaries===
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The legendary King Arthur, the mysteries around his sword Excalibur, the stories of his quasi democratic Round Table, Arthur's tragic struggle between love, treason and an all too powerful enemy invading the British Isles have inspired the European audience at least since the early 12th century. The wave of Provencal, Middle High German and Middle English versified Arthurian romances composed around 1200 merged into the production of the first modern European prose romances in the 15th century which culminated - another century later - in the ''Amadis'', the "arch romance" devoured by ''Don Quixote''. The 17th and 18th centuries distanced themselves both from the erroneous histories related here and from the genre of romances they had inspired. A new interest arose at the beginning of the 19th century with the new nationalism of the age, its self proclaimed "romanticism", its quest for lost identities one could hope to find in the "dark ages". A rediscovery of "medieval" texts followed in which the Arthurian world offered the most interesting mythical images; it is today omnipresent as a cultural phenomenon with a mass production of fantasy novels, video games and movies.

The course will focus on William Caxton's edition of Sir Thomas Malroy's ''Le Morte Darthur'' first published in 1485 - most certainly not the elegant, witty and beautiful reading earlier versified romances provided, yet the text which most effectively compiled the plots of the preceding romantic production.

Why was there an audience for this book at the "beginning" of the "Modern Period"? How did it relate to the preceding production of romances and histories? How does it compare to the fashionable ''Amadis'' the next century was to love so much? How does it read within the context of the 19th and 20th century renaissance of the Arthurian world? The course will offer a cultural history of the text and its fictional world.

==Oct 26 2007: Introduction==
Brainstorming. Who needs what? Who is going to conclude this course with a piece of written work? Introduction History of Malory's Book.

==Nov 2, 2007: Reading into the (peculiar) text ==
Discussion of seminar topics - and advice to claim and specify them in the section bellow. We read into ''Le Morte Darthur'', Caxton's preface and chapters 1-3. Concepts of history, aspects of fatalism. Also: Great vowel shift and Caxton's spelling.

==Nov 9, 2007: Caxton's Book 1==
'''Homework:''' Read Book one. Seminar discussion: Arthur's dubious birth, miracles, reading experiences. Also: comparison with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table_%28film%29 ''Knights of the Round Table'' (1953)], the movie we eventually watched.

==Nov 16, 2007 ==
'''Homework:''' Three Groups read Books 2/3/4 .

'''Class:''' Discussion: Why have the Arthurian and Germanic mythological worlds become that attractive? - Fantasy, NS-Ideology, Lord of the Rings, Starwars. Simple option: We live in a complex time and need the simplified worlds.

Is it just about simplifications? Why has fate become such a topic?

Returning to ''Morte Darthur'' we wondered whether Malory's world is one of clear morality, open conflicts between good and evil. We read into the first books and tried to discuss passages to get a notion of good-evil options, and did not get a simple moralistic point at all.

==Nov 23, 2007 ==
'''Homework:''' Read Book 5.

'''Class:''' History vs. Epic. Is this a world of archaic dimensions?

==Nov 30, 2007 ==
We discussed how to take a fast way through the whole text and decided to divide p.250 ff (our edition) into sections of 20 pages - and to produce rather more detailed excerpts. If I remember correctly I have to read pp. 510-530 (and was the last to take my share). In Order to allow others to work with our excerpts we collected topics - on the basis of seminar work individual participants planned, that is they gave ideas of what kind of information they were interested in and wanted the others to look for.

[[User:Nico Zorn|Nico Zorn]] promised to give my table script of the individual questions into this wiki. If you want to quote interesting passages of Caxton's version so that others can work with them you will not have to type them from the page into the wiki. I provided an html version of Caxton's text at:

http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html

You can quote with copy and paste from this website (use : to indent) as in the following passage:

:Hit befel in the dayes of Vther pendragon when he was kynge of all Englond / and ſo regned that there was a myჳty duke in Cornewaill that helde warre ageynſt hym long tyme / And the duke was called the duke of Tyntagil

I'll create links for the individual books above. When reading your 20 pages, think of what might be interesting in the passages you read, so that we can later refer to your textual observations. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 20:28, 30 November 2007 (CET)

===Blackboard Script (topics of individual research)===
* Aspect of cheap entertainment (Chapbooks)
* Prophecies, predictions of what is to come, moments of reflection when things happened as predicted
* Marriage & Fidelity
* Violence & second thoughts
* Christianity and the heathen world, supernatural incidents, miracles, moments where other mythologies interfere (Herodes who has all male newborns killed and the attempt to kill Mordred as an infant
* Family ties and what they mean
* Gender roles
* Is this text historical or fictional, do we get proofs, sources, doubts second thoughts on the status of the stories. Is it a romance or a book of histories?
* Modern adaptations: key scenes (which that are is yet to be determined)
* Concepts of honour and morality in general and individual
:* Movie adaptations - where they create their own concepts of morality - what is a hero? what is honour?
:* The exploitation of the whole book - note if you come across stories of personnel you found in other contexts
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Not under all circumstances everything strange or noteworthy. Try to determine what importance the 20 pages you read might have for the whole.

--[[User:Nico Zorn|Nico Zorn]] 21:30, 30 November 2007 (CET) / --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:10, 1 December 2007 (CET)

==Dec 7, 2007 ==

==Dec 14, 2007 ==

==Dec 21, 2007 ==
I will offer a summary of Wolfram von Eschenbach's German ''Parzival'' (1200-1215) - we should try together to give a plot outline or rather an outline of the different plots of the grail quest in Malory's ''Morte Darthur''. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 18:56, 20 December 2007 (CET)

==Jan 11, 2007 ==

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===Topics===

Those who are planning to join the seminar may contribute thoughts on what they'd like to do in the following list:

* Sources in Europe's mythology and history[[User:Katharina Debney|Katharina Debney]] 11:44, 23 November 2007 (CET)
* Foreshadowings - a world of predetermination [[User:Katharina K.|Katharina K.]] 21:31, 8 November 2007 (CET)
* Family ties [[User:BettinaKorte|BettinaKorte]] 22:26, 15 November 2007 (CET)
* Justice [[User:Johanna Ehrhardt|Johanna Ehrhardt]] 12:39, 9 November 2007 (CET) Johanna Ehrhardt
* The use of repetitive patterns
* Who has to solve the problem? - special and normal quests
* Love and gender relations [[User:Julia Mudder|Julia Mudder]] 18:05, 9 November 2007 (CET)
* Miracles and the Arthurian World
* Politics
* Marriage and fidelity[[User:Freya|Freya]] 09:06, 7 November 2007 (CET)
* The legitimation of violence [[User:Inga|Inga]] 13:34, 9 November 2007 (CET)
* The legitimation of power
* Christianity--What is its function in the stories? Christian Schultz-Brummer[[User:Nahl3372|Nahl3372]] 18:05, 7 November 2007 (CET)
*The Heroes at King Arthur's Court: Stereotypes or Individuals?--Annika Alberts 12:24, 21 December 2007 (CET)
*Battle Scenes
*Hidden and Lost Identities
* A Renaissance of Chivalry at the Beginning of the Modern Era
* Geography in Malory's ''Le More Darthur''
* The Public in Malory's ''Le More Darthur''
* ''Le More Darthur'' - History or Romance?
* The text which shaped our view of the medieval world: Malory's King Arthur and Mark Twain's ''Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court'' (1889)[[User:Ulrich K.|Ulrich K.]] 17:57, 29 November 2007 (CET)
* From Fantasy to video game Arthur's table round in modern culture (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media en.wikipedia.org] for modern adaptations of the sujet) [[User:Jens|Jens]] 11:05, 16 November 2007 (CET)
* King Arthur and the Amadis (Commercializing of King Arthur) --[[User:Sebastian Henatsch|Sebastian Henatsch]] 17:47, 10 November 2007 (CET)
* The presence of the Arthurian world in the world of chap books
* Individual ideas on Malory's ''King Arthur'' and modern versions and adaptations - be creative, propose topics and we will think about them

===Texts===

First of all: Read a German translation if you feel lost - I began my life with Middle English texts with a reading of Chaucer in German, which I then, a week later, combined with a second reading of the original. I read the original Chaucer aloud to get into the funny language (fill in your Plattdeutsch that helps), with the German text still in my mind I had little problems with the original and soon realised that I could from now onwards read such stuff without reading a German text before.

As to the English texts:

Malory's original manuscript is lost. For more than 400 years the edition Caxton had published in 1485 was the authoritative source. In 1934 the Winchester manuscript was discovered - a text between Malory's and Caxton's text. Traces of Caxton's ink have been found on the manuscript's leafs, Caxton knew the Winchester volume, he did, however, base his own edition on another, lost manuscript.

Modern scholarship has focused on the Winchester manuscript as the better text. The Norton Critical edition - it cost me 16 Euro a couple of months ago - is based on the Winchester manuscript; it includes, however, passages from Caxton's wherever his version is more detailed. The aim is a reconstruction of what might have been Malory's text, a text without omissions. The Norton edition is well commented and equipped with an extensive dictionary as well as a choice of critical articles. It does finally offer the most important sources Malory exploited. The Norton edition is my recommendation for all of you who like to work with a fully commented scientific edition.

I myself am more interested in Caxton's fist edition as published in 1485 and offered by EEBO - the text is, however, difficult to read:

* [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=22102180&FILE=../session/1183624385_29976&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (London: William Caxton, 1485)]

To facilitate things I offer an html-edition of the same text (scroll down a bit to get beyond the reproduction of the first page):

*[http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1485-morte-darthur.html Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (1485) html-text of Caxton's edition]

My impression is that Caxton's is the easier text to read. The publisher focused on the plot, he lost some of the descriptions and he omitted some of the author's self referential remarks. Yet he structured his text and produced a straight forward version. My html-edition (also available as a word-file) is a simple transcript to be read with an additional list of difficult words to be found at [[Le Morte Darthur (1485):Dictionary]] - expand this list, wherever you miss words. I have contacted the Druckzentrum and they promised to provide a print-version of my Caxton html-edition by September. Contact me if you want to start your reading earlier and if you want to read the Caxton text. I will try to provide provisional copies in that case. We should also open Wiki-space at [[Le Morte Darthur (1485): Protagonists]] - for a who is who?

===Literature===

*Eugéne Vinaver, ''Malory'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929).

*Bennett, J. A. W. (ed.), ''Essays on Malory'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).

*Moorman, Charles, ''The Book of King Arthur. The Unity of Malory’s Morte Darthur'' (University of Kentucky Press, 1965).

*Matthews, William, ''The Ill-Famed Knight. A sceptical inquiry into the Identity of Thomas Malory'' (Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966).

*Lambert, Mark, ''Malory. Style and Vision in Le Morte Darthur'' (New Haven/ London: Yale University Press, 1975).

*Benson, Larry D., ''Malory’s Morte Darthur'' (Cambridge, Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 1976). 289 pp.

*Dillon, Bert, ''A Malory Handbook'' (Boston, Mass., G. K. Hall & Co., 1978).

*Ihle, Sandra Ness, ''Malory’s Grail Quest. Invention and Adaptation in Medieval Romance'' (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983).

*Whitaker, Muriel, ''Arthur’s Kingdom of Adventure. The World of Malory’s Morte Darthur'' (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer/ Barnes and Noble, 1984).

*Spisak, James W. (ed.), ''Studies in Malory'' (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications western Michigan University, 1985).

*Jackson Parins, Marylyn, ''Malory the Cristical Heritage'' (London/ New York: Routledge, 1988).

*McCarthy, Terence, ''Reading the Morte Darthur'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XX] (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988), 187 pp. third edition with new title: ''An Introduction to Malory'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XX] (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), 176 pp.

*Takamiya, Toshiyuki/ Brewer, Derek (eds.), ''Aspects of Malory'' (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer/ Rowman & Littlefield, 1991).

*Field, P. J. C., ''The Life an Times of Sir Thomas Malory'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XXIX] (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), 218 pp.

*Archibald, Elizabeth/ Edwards A. S. G. (eds.), ''A Companion to Malory'' (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), 252 pp. + Appendix

*Kraemer, Alfred Robert, ''Mallory’s Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography'' (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). 105 pp. + Notes

*Field, P. J. C., ''Malory: Texts and Sources'' [= ''Arthurian Studies'', XL] (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), 313 pp.

==Films==
* ''Knights of the Round Table'' (1953), based on ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' by Thomas Malory, with Robert Taylor as Lancelot, Ava Gardner as Guinevere, and Mel Ferrer in the role of Arthur. '''bought'''
*''Sword of Lancelot'' a.k.a. ''Lancelot and Guinevere'' (1963), a film directed by Cornel Wilde and starring Mr. Wilde as Lancelot, Jean Wallace as Guinevere, and Brian Aherne as Arthur.
* ''The Sword in the Stone'', a 1963 Disney animated film about Arthur's childhood, loosely adapted from T.H. White's take on the legend.
* ''Camelot'', a 1967 film adaptation of the successful 1960 Broadway musical of the same name. It starred Richard Harris as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot.
* ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), a comedic parody of the traditional King Arthur legend. It was later adapted into a successful Broadway musical called ''Spamalot''. Arthur was played by the late Graham Chapman in the film.
* John Boorman's ''Excalibur'' (1981), based largely on Malory and probably the highest rated serious Arthurian film. It features Nicol Williamson as Merlin and Helen Mirren as Morgan Le Fay.
* ''First Knight'' (1995), a movie based on the abduction of Guinevere by the knight Malagant. It featured Sean Connery as Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot, and Julia Ormond as Guinevere.
* ''Quest for Camelot'', an animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation, released in 1998, features King Arthur ruling over a besieged Camelot.
* ''King Arthur'', a motion picture released on July 7, 2004, claiming (despite being heavily criticised for its historical inaccuracies) to be more historically accurate about the legend of Arthur as a 5th century, British-born, Roman Commander, with respect to new archaeological findings; similar in story line to Jack Whyte's books. '''bought'''
*''The Last Legion'' (2007) - a film about the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus who survives his fall from power and finds a new life in Britain. The movie links Romulus to the legends of King Arthur. In this movie, Arthur's father Uther Pendragon is brought up by a Roman general and a Malayalee woman (Aishwarya Rai)
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The list is incomplete as Percival, Tritram and Isolde (got one movie of that) and Lancelot-stuff will belong into the same field. We might skip animated movies. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 21:21, 11 November 2007 (CET)

===Links===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory en.wikipedia.org: Thomas Malory]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur en.wikipedia.org: Le Morte d'Arthur]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur en.wikipedia.org: King Arthur]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_in_various_media en.wikipedia.org: King Arthur in various media]
*[[King Arthur: Films]]
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/lookup.html The electronic Middle English Dictionary]

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