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2010 AM Fictions of a Puritan Past: Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Tues 10-12

2010-06-24T10:20:44Z

Alilee: /* 4.05.10 */

* '''Time:''' Tuesday 10-12

==Course Description==

The focus of this course is on two narratives from the first half of the nineteenth century, which
reflect the burning issues of their own time by telling stories from a past which, one may fear, is
not quite completely over. The stories are set in Scotland and New England respectively, and
they ostensibly represent the social oppressiveness, the self-righteousness and hypocrisy of the
Puritans of former times. At the same time, they appear to address dangers arising from a
religious fanaticism that continue to threaten the modern self-conception at the time of their
publication. Along with the close reading of the two narratives, the course will thus engage in a
discussion of the issues of national identities, of tradition vs. modernity, religion vs. secularity,
individual vs. society.
Students should purchase and read in advance:

James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings, 4th Leland S. Person, (Norton
Critical Editions).[Both texts may be had at a very competitive price at the CvO Bookshop]

Additional materials for preparation will be made available on the course’s interactive wikiwebsite.

Requirements: for 3 KP: regular attendance, an oral contribution in the form of a presentation
and participation in an ‘expert group’ that will prepare a certain aspect of the seminar’s topic for
the final discussion.
Requirements for 6 KP: as above, with a term paper of ca. 10 pp. based on the topic of the
presentation (deadline Aug 15, 2010).

==Bibliography==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_van_leer_hester's_labyrinth.pdf Van Leer, David. "Hester's Labyrinth: Transcendental Rhetoric in Puritan Boston." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1996_royer_puritan_constructs_hawthorne.pdf Royer, Diana. "Puritan Constructs and Nineteenth -Century Politics: Allegory, Rhetoric, and Law in Three Hawthorne Tales."]

==06.04.10==
Introduction. Technicalities. Past vs. Present Perspectives: Reading 19th-century stories about the 17th century in the 21st century.

==13.04.10==
Textual Practice: Hogg: Justified Sinner: Narration and Characters.

==20.04.10==
Textual Practice: Hogg Justified Sinner: Structure of the Text; Relations and Tensions between the two parts.

==27.04.10==
Textual Practice: Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter: Narration and Characters.

==4.05.10==
Textual Practice: Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter: Structure of the Text; Relations and Tensions between the two parts.

==11.05.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2002_durston_puritan_ethos.pdf Durston, Christopher and Jacqueline Eales. "Introduction: The Puritan Ethos, 1560-1700." The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002]

Historical Backgrounds and Hogg’s Justified Sinner: Puritans in Britain from the 16th century to 1715

(Presenters: Mallü, Ziala, Triebe)

==18.05.10==

*Vaughan, Alden T. ''The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

Historical Backgrounds and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter: Puritans in the US in the mid-17th century.

==25.05.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2009_duncan_fanaticism_justified_sinner.pdf Duncan, Ian. "Fanaticism and Enlightenment in Confessions of a Justified Sinner." ] (Available on campus only via [http://www.netlibrary.com NetLibrary] )
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2010_Sim_Justified-Sinner_ed_Kirchhofer-Stinshoff Start Sim. "Two Narratives of Religious Despair."]

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenter: Willig)

==01.06.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_colacurcio_sex_metaphor_scarlet_letter.pdf Colacurcio, Michael. "'The Woman's Own Choice': Sex, Metaphor, and the Puritan 'Sources' of the Scarlet Letter" ]

Critical Discussion: Sexuality and Politics in The Scarlet Letter

(Presenters: Lammers, Pawlitzek, Reinecke)

==08.06.10==

*Sacvan Bercovitch, "A-Politics" (Norton Critical Ed., 576-597)

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1986_arac_politcs_scarlet_letter.pdf Arac, Jonathan. "The Politics of the Scarlet Letter." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1998_johnson_meaning_of_scarlet_A.pdf Johnson, Claudia Durst. "The Meaning of the Scarlet A."]

Critical Discussion: (Re-) Interpreting the ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter

(Presenters: Ardali, Tietjen)

==15.06.10==

*Anderson, "Jefferson, Hawthorne and 'The Custom House'", (Norton Critical Ed., 404-417)

*(also check: Franzosa, "Separation from Salem", (Norton Critical Ed., 387-404))

Critical Discussion: “The Custom House”, Contemporary Politics and The Scarlet Letter

(Presenters: Bockmann, Holzmüller)

==22.06.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_elh_v52-1_redekop_hogg-justified-sinner.pdf Redekop, Magdalene. "Beyond Closure: Buried Alive with Hogg's Justified Sinner."]

Critical Discussion: The structure of the text and the 19th century contexts of publication for the Justified Sinner

:Additional reading:
:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1990_manning_transatlantic_hogg.pdf Manning, Susan. "That Exhumation Scene Again: Transatlantic Hogg."]
:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2007_sage_author_editor_text.pdf Sage, Victor. "The Author, the Editor, and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg."]

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – Expert Groups Past vs. Present Perspectives Revisited: Reading 19th-century stories about the 17th century in the 21st century

==06.07.10==
Feedback on Course evaluation. – Final discussion and Presentation of Term Paper Projects

==Further Reading==

*General information on American Puritanism:

Vaughan, Alden T. ''The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

Available on campus only via [http://www.netlibrary.com NetLibrary]

*On Hogg's ''Justified Sinner''

[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2003_evans_hogg's_sinner.pdf Evans, Meredith. "Persons Fall Apart: Jame Hogg's Transcendent Sinner." ]

2010 AM Fictions of a Puritan Past: Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Tues 10-12

2010-06-24T10:20:09Z

Alilee: /* 4.05.10 */

* '''Time:''' Tuesday 10-12

==Course Description==

The focus of this course is on two narratives from the first half of the nineteenth century, which
reflect the burning issues of their own time by telling stories from a past which, one may fear, is
not quite completely over. The stories are set in Scotland and New England respectively, and
they ostensibly represent the social oppressiveness, the self-righteousness and hypocrisy of the
Puritans of former times. At the same time, they appear to address dangers arising from a
religious fanaticism that continue to threaten the modern self-conception at the time of their
publication. Along with the close reading of the two narratives, the course will thus engage in a
discussion of the issues of national identities, of tradition vs. modernity, religion vs. secularity,
individual vs. society.
Students should purchase and read in advance:

James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings, 4th Leland S. Person, (Norton
Critical Editions).[Both texts may be had at a very competitive price at the CvO Bookshop]

Additional materials for preparation will be made available on the course’s interactive wikiwebsite.

Requirements: for 3 KP: regular attendance, an oral contribution in the form of a presentation
and participation in an ‘expert group’ that will prepare a certain aspect of the seminar’s topic for
the final discussion.
Requirements for 6 KP: as above, with a term paper of ca. 10 pp. based on the topic of the
presentation (deadline Aug 15, 2010).

==Bibliography==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_van_leer_hester's_labyrinth.pdf Van Leer, David. "Hester's Labyrinth: Transcendental Rhetoric in Puritan Boston." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1996_royer_puritan_constructs_hawthorne.pdf Royer, Diana. "Puritan Constructs and Nineteenth -Century Politics: Allegory, Rhetoric, and Law in Three Hawthorne Tales."]

==06.04.10==
Introduction. Technicalities. Past vs. Present Perspectives: Reading 19th-century stories about the 17th century in the 21st century.

==13.04.10==
Textual Practice: Hogg: Justified Sinner: Narration and Characters.

==20.04.10==
Textual Practice: Hogg Justified Sinner: Structure of the Text; Relations and Tensions between the two parts.

==27.04.10==
Textual Practice: Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter: Narration and Characters.

==4.05.10==
Textual Practice: Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter: Structure of the Text; Relations and Tensions between the two parts.

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1986_okri_hidden_history.pdf test link!]

==11.05.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2002_durston_puritan_ethos.pdf Durston, Christopher and Jacqueline Eales. "Introduction: The Puritan Ethos, 1560-1700." The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002]

Historical Backgrounds and Hogg’s Justified Sinner: Puritans in Britain from the 16th century to 1715

(Presenters: Mallü, Ziala, Triebe)

==18.05.10==

*Vaughan, Alden T. ''The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

Historical Backgrounds and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter: Puritans in the US in the mid-17th century.

==25.05.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2009_duncan_fanaticism_justified_sinner.pdf Duncan, Ian. "Fanaticism and Enlightenment in Confessions of a Justified Sinner." ] (Available on campus only via [http://www.netlibrary.com NetLibrary] )
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2010_Sim_Justified-Sinner_ed_Kirchhofer-Stinshoff Start Sim. "Two Narratives of Religious Despair."]

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenter: Willig)

==01.06.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_colacurcio_sex_metaphor_scarlet_letter.pdf Colacurcio, Michael. "'The Woman's Own Choice': Sex, Metaphor, and the Puritan 'Sources' of the Scarlet Letter" ]

Critical Discussion: Sexuality and Politics in The Scarlet Letter

(Presenters: Lammers, Pawlitzek, Reinecke)

==08.06.10==

*Sacvan Bercovitch, "A-Politics" (Norton Critical Ed., 576-597)

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1986_arac_politcs_scarlet_letter.pdf Arac, Jonathan. "The Politics of the Scarlet Letter." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1998_johnson_meaning_of_scarlet_A.pdf Johnson, Claudia Durst. "The Meaning of the Scarlet A."]

Critical Discussion: (Re-) Interpreting the ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter

(Presenters: Ardali, Tietjen)

==15.06.10==

*Anderson, "Jefferson, Hawthorne and 'The Custom House'", (Norton Critical Ed., 404-417)

*(also check: Franzosa, "Separation from Salem", (Norton Critical Ed., 387-404))

Critical Discussion: “The Custom House”, Contemporary Politics and The Scarlet Letter

(Presenters: Bockmann, Holzmüller)

==22.06.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_elh_v52-1_redekop_hogg-justified-sinner.pdf Redekop, Magdalene. "Beyond Closure: Buried Alive with Hogg's Justified Sinner."]

Critical Discussion: The structure of the text and the 19th century contexts of publication for the Justified Sinner

:Additional reading:
:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1990_manning_transatlantic_hogg.pdf Manning, Susan. "That Exhumation Scene Again: Transatlantic Hogg."]
:*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2007_sage_author_editor_text.pdf Sage, Victor. "The Author, the Editor, and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg."]

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – Expert Groups Past vs. Present Perspectives Revisited: Reading 19th-century stories about the 17th century in the 21st century

==06.07.10==
Feedback on Course evaluation. – Final discussion and Presentation of Term Paper Projects

==Further Reading==

*General information on American Puritanism:

Vaughan, Alden T. ''The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

Available on campus only via [http://www.netlibrary.com NetLibrary]

*On Hogg's ''Justified Sinner''

[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2003_evans_hogg's_sinner.pdf Evans, Meredith. "Persons Fall Apart: Jame Hogg's Transcendent Sinner." ]

2010 MM 1 Literature and Human Rights, Mon 14-16

2010-05-21T12:59:28Z

Alilee: /* Further Reading */

* '''Time:''' Monday 14-16

==Course Description==

The question of the universality or cultural relativity of human rights has been the subject of a
growing debate since the turn of the new millennium, and critics and theorists from literary and
cultural studies have taken their share in this debate. The course invites students to discuss
outstanding contributions to this debate; it offers the opportunity to explore the history of the
human rights discourse from around 1800 to the present, and to reflect its significance to literary
studies. At the core of our seminar will be the close reading of two outstanding works of fiction,
Mary Shelley’s _Frankenstein_ (1818) and J. M. Coetzee’s _Waiting for the Barbarians_ (1980).
Against the background of the emergence and development of the human rights discourse, the
particular focus of analysing these texts will be on the construction, the problematisation and the
relevance of descriptive and normative conceptions of the human to these texts and to the
cultural settings which produced them and to which they respond.
Students should purchase and read in advance:

Shelley, Frankenstein (angaben folgen)
Coetzee, waiting for the barbarians (angaben folgen)
[Both texts may be had at a very competitive price at the CvO Bookshop]

Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available on
the course’s interactive wiki-website.

Requirements: for 9 KP (M.Ed. Gym and M.A.):

During the course: regular attendance, an oral contribution in the form of a presentation and
participation in an ‘expert group’ that will prepare a certain aspect of the seminar’s topic for the
final discussion.

After the course (deadline Aug 31, 2010): a term paper of ca. 20 pp. based on the topic of the
presentation.

Requirements for 6 KP (M.Ed. WiPaed):

During the course: as above.
After the course (deadline Aug 31, 2010): a term paper of ca. 10 pp. based on the topic of the
presentation.

==Bibliography==

*[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." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1996_wenzel_writing_torture_coetzee.pdf Wenzel, Jennifer. "Keys to the Labyrinth: Writing, Torture, and Coetzee's Barbarian Girl." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2006_kehinde_racial_dissonance_coetzee.pdf Kehinde, Ayobami. "African Fiction in the Service of History: Narrating Racial Dissonance in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians."]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2006_urquhart_barbarians_coetzee.pdf Urquhart, Troy. "Truth, Reconciliation, and the Restoration of the State: Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 52.1 (2006): 1-21.]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1990_manning_transatlantic_hogg.pdf Manning, Susan. "That Exhumation Scene Again: Transatlantic Hogg."]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1994_phelan_narration_coetzee.pdf Phelan, James. "Present Tense Narration, Mimesis, the Narrative Form, and the Positioning of the Reader in 'Waiting for the Barbarians."]

==12.04.10==
Introduction. Technicalities. literature, the human, and the normative

==19.04.10==
Textual Practice: Shelley, Frankenstein: Narration, Characterisation.

==26.04.10==
Textual Practice: Shelley, Frankenstein: Structure, Themes and Motifs

==03.05.10==
Textual Practice: Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians:Narration, Characterisation.

==10.05.10==
Textual Practice: Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians:Structure, Themes and Motifs

==17.05.10==

*[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/2010_MM_kirchhofer_History_Human_Rights_Discourse_Brueckner.pdf Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues]

(Presenter: [Brückner])

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1949_asbeck_declaration_human_rights.pdf The Universal Declaration of Human Rights]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1999_sandkuehler_definition_menschenrechte.pdf Definition "Menschenrechte"] (name of source coming soon)

*[http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/1789_Declaration_Rights_Man_Citizen.pdf The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789]

==24.05.10==

==31.05.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==07.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==14.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==21.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==28.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

==05.07.10==
Feedback on Course evaluation. – Final discussion and Presentation of Term Paper Projects

==Further Reading==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1988_gallagher_torture_coetzee.pdf Gallagher, Susan Van Zanten. "Torture and the Novel: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians." Contemporary Literature 29.2 (1988): 277-285.]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_cohn_simultaneous_narration.pdf Cohn, Dorrit. "'I Doze and Wake': The Deviance of Simultaneous Narration." Tales and "their telling difference": Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Narrativik. Ed. Herbert Foltinek, et al. Heidelberg: Winter, 1993. 9-23.]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2006_attridge_against_allegory.pdf Attridge, Derek. "Against Allegory: Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, and the Question of Literary Reading." J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual. Ed. Jane Poyner. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2006. 63-82.]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2006_lenta_coetzee_sept_11.pdf Lenta, Patrick. "'Legal Illegality': Waiting for the Barbarians after September 11." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 42.1 (2006): 71-83.]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1996_schulze-engler_literature_south_africa.pdf Schulze-Engler, Frank. "Literature and Civil Society in South Africa." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 27.1 (1996): 21-40.]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2007_delconte_absentee_narratee_coetzee.pdf DelConte, Matt. "A Further Study of Present Tense Narration: The Absentee Naratee and Four-Wall Present Tense in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace." Journal of Narrative Theory 37.3 (2007): 427-446.]

2010 MM 1 Literature and Human Rights, Mon 14-16

2010-05-21T12:53:24Z

Alilee: /* Further Reading */

2010 MM 1 Literature and Human Rights, Mon 14-16

Courses

2010-04-19T11:12:35Z

Alilee: /* Summer 2010 */

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Lehrveranstaltungen der Uni Oldenburg
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[https://elearning.uni-oldenburg.de/ StudIP]
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where you have to register
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[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/31215.html Kommentiertes Veranstaltungsverzeichnis]
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detailed course information
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|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|This Page
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|all courses that use the seminar's wiki
|-
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[[Course Ideas]]
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where you can develop your own ideas of courses you would like to give or attend
|}</center>
 

==Summer 2010==
'''Basismodule'''
*[[2010 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature]]

'''Aufbaumodule'''
*[[2010 AM The Modern ELT-Classroom, Th 8-10]]

*[[2010 AM Fictions of a Puritan Past: Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Tues 10-12]]

'''Mastermodule'''
*[[2010 MM 1 Literature and Human Rights, Mon 14-16]]

==Winter 2009-2010==
'''Basismodule'''
*[[2009-10 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature]]
*[[2009-10 BM3 Introduction to English Linguistics Part I]]

'''Aufbaumodule'''
*[[2009-10 AM Teaching for Communicative Competence]]
*[[2009-10 AM Incredible India: Colonisation, Decolonisation and Contemporary Issues, We 18-20]]
*[[2009-10 AM Fictions of India: Colonial, Postcolonial, Contemporary]]

'''Mastermodule'''
*[[2009-10 MM Romantic, Gothic, Modern: Literature and Culture around 1800, Mo 16-18]]

==Archive==
*[[Courses:Archive|Archive of past seminars]]

== Assignments, examinations, homework related materials ==

* [http://wiki.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php?title=Category:Assignment Assignments]
* [http://wiki.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php?title=Category:Handout Handouts]
* [[Style sheet]]
* [http://wiki.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php/Linguistics:Style_sheet_Hamann Style sheet (Linguistics)]
* [[Statement on 'Plagiarism']]
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Courses

2010-04-19T11:12:03Z

2010-04-19T10:26:00Z

Courses

2010-04-19T10:17:14Z

Alilee: /* Summer 2010 */

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Five web pages offer our course programs. Number six gives an outlook into the future and is an invitation to think about courses you would like to give or attend:

<center>
{|width="85%" cellpadding="10"
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"| [http://www.studium.uni-oldenburg.de/lvstudip.php Lehrangebot]
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
Lehrveranstaltungen der Uni Oldenburg
|-
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
[https://elearning.uni-oldenburg.de/ StudIP]
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
where you have to register
|-
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/31215.html Kommentiertes Veranstaltungsverzeichnis]
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
detailed course information
|-
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|This Page
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|all courses that use the seminar's wiki
|-
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
[[Course Ideas]]
|valign="top" bgcolor="#F9F9F9"|
where you can develop your own ideas of courses you would like to give or attend
|}</center>
 

==Summer 2010==
'''Basismodule'''
*[[2010 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature]]

'''Aufbaumodule'''
*[[2010 AM The Modern ELT-Classroom, Th 8-10]]

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==Winter 2009-2010==
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*[[2009-10 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature]]
*[[2009-10 BM3 Introduction to English Linguistics Part I]]

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*[[2009-10 AM Teaching for Communicative Competence]]
*[[2009-10 AM Incredible India: Colonisation, Decolonisation and Contemporary Issues, We 18-20]]
*[[2009-10 AM Fictions of India: Colonial, Postcolonial, Contemporary]]

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*[[2009-10 MM Romantic, Gothic, Modern: Literature and Culture around 1800, Mo 16-18]]

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Talk:Lecture BM1: Fiction, 1

2009-06-13T20:23:17Z

Alilee: New page: That "model of 20th-century literary communication" illustration in the Wikipedia article looks awfully familiar...

That "model of 20th-century literary communication" illustration in the Wikipedia article looks awfully familiar...

Talk:2009 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 2

2009-05-14T20:03:16Z

Alilee:

I have a question concerning the assignment.
Are we supposed to look for secondary literature on "The Intersting Narrative..." in general? Or do we have to come up with a certain question like we had for the RPO?
I did attend the last session on Monday, but still i don't know what to do.
Because the task in the wiki is different from what Mr. Simons told us.
It would be nice to have some further information on what we are actually supposed to do.

Thank you.

I do have the same problem. I am not sure how to start the whole process of researching. And I do have some problems with getting secondary literature from the 18th and 19th century. Especially because all the articles I found yet tell me that "Olaudah Equiano" raised attention back in the days when he published it and nowadays again!
I am getting frustrated and confused and there isn' t the time to have such feelings!!!
Therefore can anybody give me some advice???

-- Your difficulty with finding secondary literature from the 18th and 19th centuries may be that there isn't much... if you go through all the databases and the library and STILL can't find anything, then this is also something worth commenting on in your assignment, I think. As for how to start researching, there is a nice folder filled with secondary literature on StudIP that you can download and go through. Also, check the MLA database. JSTOR. Scholarly journals in the library, if you want to look into research that is older then we are. --A.G.

Talk:2008-09 BM1 Assignment 3: Fiction

2009-01-22T10:03:26Z

Alilee:

*How am I supposed to quote? There are no numbers for lines given. Am I allowed to give them numbers or do I have to write down the passage to that I refer? It would be a huge problem, when I have to wrote down the sentences, because 3 pages offer not that much space. Regards, Sören

::Just give first and last words of passages you want to refer to, and [...] in between. Or quote entire passages if they are shorter than a sentence. You will not need to set footnotes on these quotes - we assume you quote the same text (Penguin edition etc.) as stated in our question. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 16:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

*I have a question regarding exercise 1 and 2. Should we also include other passages than the given one? Shall we characterize Marlow and the aunt really only based on what we know from the passage? According to number 3. Shall we only analyze the narration and focalization in this passage or also describe possible changes throughout the whole story, apart from the passage?

::Questions 1-3 (4) aim at your ability to analyze a short passage based on 'close reading'. They provide a basis for question 5, where your knowledge of the entire text is needed. Thus, as regards your question, stick to the passage first and foremost. Then, and only if your findings require this (and you do not exceed the three pages), may you reflect on how they substantiate/contrast your knowledge of the text. Best, [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 09:23, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

*Is the fifth question restricted to one particular passage or can we refer to several examples? For instance, in case of "the darkness", there are lots of pages with good examples. Do we have to decide on one? I'm just wondering because I have in mind that we need to consider the whole story...
::Try to stick to the instructions as far as possible in order to avoid superficial answers. However, it is always a good idea to keep the whole novel in mind and let your reader know about it (if the reflections on the entire texts shed light on your findings). Best, [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 09:35, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

*Working on the assignment I got somehow "stuck" with the 4th question concerning the critical distance. Is it referring to the reader's critical distance towards the narrator or does the question refer to Marlow's critical distance from the Company, his aunt etc.? I'm somehow not quite sure about that.
::The analysis of "critical distance" refers to a wide spectrum of possibilities which is comparable to the spectrum of characterization and narration/focalization. Best, [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 13:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

*If a story is written in the simple past, would that automatically mean that the narrator is external? When we have a story containing two levels of narration how can we distinguish between a story composed of an extra-diagesis + diagesis and a story composed of a diagesis and a hypo-diagesis. I don't understand how to distinguish between these?
::It seems worthwhile to visit the library and browse through Rimmon-Kenan's ''Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics'' (Handapparat BM 1/Kirchhofer). The chapter on "Narration: Levels and Voices" explains the diegetic level as "the events themselves" and the extradiegetic level as "immediately superior to the first narrative and concerned with its narration". Additionally, Rimmon-Kenan offers examples which may be of interest. The topic of tenses is to be found - among other passages - in the sub-chapter on "Temporal Relations". Best, [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 09:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

*Is the quotation "I found her triumphant" a case of direct definition or indirect presentation? It directly names a trait of the aunt, but it is a transient trait -- if Marlow were to visit her two hours later, he might find her tired and irritable.
::Same advice here: visit the library and browse through Rimmon-Kenan's ''Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics'' (Handapparat BM 1/Kirchhofer). Chapter 5 on "Text: Characterization" offers insight into the differences between indirect presentation and direct definition, as well as a wide range of further examples. If the passage remains problematic, discuss. Best, [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]] 09:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
::::If I understand Rimmon-Kenan correctly, direct definition is "by definition" explicit and supratemporal, describing a quality not so susceptible to the passage of time...