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2010-2011 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature

2010-11-07T17:48:45Z

SarahBerres:

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'''Please note''': The BM1 (literature) and BM2 (culture) modules consist of a seminar and a tutorial each. All students beginning in the winter term 2010/11 need to enroll for one of the tutorials called "Reasearch Methods". Additionally, you will choose between a seminar under BM 1 (literature) or BM 2 (culture) for the winter term and then study the other one in the summer term. In the summer term you will enroll for the second tutorial, "Exploring History and Theory".

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*3.02.011 Course A - [[User:Christian Lassen|Christian Lassen]] Mi, 16:00 - 18:00 Raum A01 0-006
*3.02.012 Course B - [[User:Christian Lassen|Christian Lassen]] Do, 12:00 - 14:00 Raum A13 0-027
*3.02.013 Course C - [[User:Michaela Leck|Michaela Keck]] Mi, 12:00 - 14:00 Raum S2-206
*3.02.014 Course D - [[User:daniel.sip|Daniel Sip]] Do, 08:00 - 10:00 Raum A01 0-004
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Tutorials
*3.02.016 TU Research Methods Mo, 08:00 - 10:00 (Tutorin: Tanja Withey) Raum: A04 5-516
*3.02.017 TU Research Methods Di, 12:00 - 14:00 (Tutorin: Britta Simon) Raum: A10 1-121
*3.02.018 TU Research Methods Mi, 18:00 - 20:00 (Tutor: Sören Niewint) Raum: A07 0-031
*3.02.026 TU Research Methods Do, 10:00 - 12:00 (Tutor: Frederik Bockmann) Raum: A01 0-010
*3.02.027 TU Research Methods Di, 08:00 - 10:00 (Tutorin: Sarah Göbert) Raum: A07 0-025
*3.02.028 TU Research Methods Mo, 18:00 - 20:00 (Tutor: Sharif Bitar) Raum: A07 0-025
*3.02.029 TU Research Methods Fr, 08:00 - 10:00 (Tutorin: Sarah Berres) Raum: A10 1-121a
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The seminar part of the Basismodul 1 focuses on techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing literature. We are offering four parallel courses. Please make sure that you are registered under ONE of these in Stud.IP and open a [[Help:Account|wiki account]] which will enable you to participate in online discussions.

All parallel courses have a common structure. The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice.

The "analytical tools" will be presented by the lecturers (on a handout) in each meeting. The additional reading from which these 'tools' are taken is not obligatory, and it can be done either before or after each session.

Both the texts and the other materials will be made accessible to you electronically (cf. the links below). In addition you will need to purchase two books.

'''Courses A-D''':
*William Shakespeare. ''The Tempest''. Eds. Virginia Vaughan and Alden Vaughan. London: A & C Black (3rd Series), 2001.
*Joseph Conrad. ''Heart of Darkness''. Ed. Paul B. Armstrong. New York, London: Norton, 2006.

[[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|Course work]]: You will be asked to hand in three assignments (max. 3 pages, due on Friday in week 4, 8 and 12 respectively) and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due on Feb 28). The assignments are to be formatted according to the [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/leitfaden_wiss_arb_wise_09-10.pdf style sheet], and will require you to analyse poetry, drama and fiction respectively. For the Research Paper Outline you will need to find your own topic to work on and document the preliminary work (this includes finding an appropriate title, writing a paragraph on the state of the art of your problem and one that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents as well as a short bibliography).

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Two useful links for all assignments:
*[[Useful Hints for Assignments]]
*[[Literary Studies:Writing academic texts]] - esp. for the research paper outline

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==Session One, Oct 27-28: Introduction.==

'''Welcome'''
*Introduction to the [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature:Curriculum|BM 1 Curriculum, Aims and Goals]]
*Introduction to the BM 1 Programme

'''Texts'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2009_10_bm1_poetry_reader.pdf Poetry Reader] includes:
#[[Sir Philip Sidney, Loving in Truth (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Loving in Truth" from ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591)]]
#[[Sir Philip Sidney, Not at first sight (1591)|Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from ''Astrophil and Stella'' (1591)]]
#[[William Percy, Sonnet II (1594)|William Percy, "Sonnet II" from ''Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia'' (1594)]]
#[[William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXXX (1609)|William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXXX" from ''The Sonnets'' (1609)]]
#[[George Herbert, The Deniall (1633)|George Herbert, "The Deniall" (1633)]]
#[[William Wordsworth, Scorn Not the Sonnet (1827)|William Wordsworth, "Scorn Not the Sonnet" (1827)]]
#[[Walt Whitman, "One's Self I Sing" (1867)]]
#[[Christina Rossetti, I wish I could remember (1881)|Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from ''A Pageant and Other Poems'' (1881)]]
#[[Langston Hughes, I, Too (1925)|Langston Hughes, "I, Too" (1925)]]
#[[Edward Estlin Cummings, Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind (1944)|e.e. Cummings, "Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind" (1944)]]

'''Skills and Activities'''

Preliminaries for seminar communication.

==Session Two, Nov 03-04: Analysing Poetry I: Poetic Conventions, Rhyme and Metre==

'''Analytical Tools'''
* Handout [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_analysing_poetry.pdf Analysing Poetry]
* Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1975_culler__structuralist_poetics.pdf Culler 161-178]; [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2005_ludwig__lyrikanalyse.pdf Ludwig, 31-33]; Cambridge Companion to Literatures in English

'''Texts'''
*Poetry Reader

'''Skills and Activities'''

Structural approach to poetry: communicative situation, themes, metrics and language. Acquire a basic checklist of what to look (first) for in a poem. Recapitulate the basics of metrics and rhyme patterns. Recognise the features of a particular genre and genre conventions: the sonnet.

==Session Three, Nov 10-11: Analysing Poetry II: Figurative Speech==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_figurative_speech.pdf Figurative Speech]
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2005_ludwig__lyrikanalyse.pdf Ludwig, 47-60]; [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1969_leech__poetry.pdf Leech, 147-157]

'''Texts'''
*Poetry Reader

'''Skills and Activities'''

Figurative language, interplay. Spot metaphors, similes, etc. the metric pattern and valorise the points where it is broken. Reinforce basic checklist of previous week. Analyse particular features of poetic language (figures of speech, metrical effects).

[[2010-11 BM1 Assignment 1: Poetry|Assignment I: Poetry]] (distributed on Nov 12, due on Nov 19)

==Session Four, Nov 17-18: Analysing Drama I: Rhetoric==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_rhetoric.pdf Rhetoric]
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1979_plett__einfuehrung.pdf Plett 3-22, 102-105]
*[[Heinrich F. Plett, Einführung in die rhetorische Textanalyse (1971)|Excerpt from Plett]]

'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare. ''The Tempest''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

A speech from the Shakespeare play

==Session Five, Nov 24-25: Analysing Drama II: Dramatic Communication and Plot Structure==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_analysing_dramatic_communication.pdf Analysing Dramatic Communication]
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 49 - 57, 86 - 94, 126 - 147]
*[[Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (1977)|Excerpt from Pfister]]

'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare. ''The Tempest''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Dramatic Structures and Communication; Exposition.

==Session Six, Dec 01-02: Analysing Drama III: Characterisation==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_analysing_dramatic_communication.pdf Analysing Dramatic Communication]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 183 - 195]

'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare. ''The Tempest''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Characters and Genre Aspects.

==Session Seven, Dec 08-09: Analysing Drama IV: Close Reading==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_analysing_dramatic_communication.pdf Analysing Dramatic Communication]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1993_pfister__drama.pdf Pfister 183 - 195]

'''Texts'''
*William Shakespeare. ''The Tempest''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Close Reading

[assignment 1 returned]

[[2010-11 BM1 Assignment II: Drama|Assignment II: Drama]] (distributed on Dec 10, due on Dec 17)

==Session Eight, Dec 15-16: Critical Debate and Literary Theory I==

'''History and Variety of Editions of Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''''',
'''History of scholarly and public interest in Shakespeare as a person and an author''',
'''Postmodern conceptions of text and authorship'''

'''Material'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf Major Theoretical Approaches and Movements in Relation to Wider Social Issues] and
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]

'''Texts'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2000_shakespeare-handbuch_biography.pdf Ina Schabert (Ed.), ''Das Shakespeare-Handbuch'', 120-133 (Biography).]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2000_shakespeare-handbuch_verfasserschaft.pdf Ina Schabert (Ed.), ''Das Shakespeare-Handbuch'', 185-193 (Verfasserschaftstheorien).]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2000_shakespeare-handbuch_editionsgeschichte.pdf Ina Schabert (Ed.), ''Das Shakespeare-Handbuch'', 196-243 (Editionsgeschichte).]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1967_foucault_what_is_an_author.pdf Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?".] -- In Foucault's essay, concentrate on pages 108 - 113, where the four characteristics of the ''author function'' are discussed, and look especially at the third characteristic which is described on pages 110 and 111.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.

==Session Nine, Jan 05-06: Analysing Narrative Fiction I: Narration and Focalisation==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_narratology.pdf Narratology]
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 6, 72-86]
*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]

'''Texts'''
*Joseph Conrad. ''Heart of Darkness''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Narration, Focalization.

==Session Ten, Jan 12-13: Analysing Narrative Fiction II: Characterisation==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_narratology.pdf Narratology]
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 5, 59-71]
*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]

'''Texts'''
*Joseph Conrad. ''Heart of Darkness''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Characterisation

[assignment 2 returned]

==Session Eleven, Jan 19-20: Analysing Narrative Fiction III: Close Reading==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [[Narratology]]
*Sources: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 5, 59-71], [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1983_rimmonkenan__narrative_fiction.pdf Rimmon-Kenan, Chapter 6, 72-86]
*[[Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, London 1983|Excerpt from Rimmon-Kenan]]

'''Texts'''
*Joseph Conrad. ''Heart of Darkness''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Close Reading

[[2010-11 BM1 Assignment 3: Fiction|Assignment III: Fiction]] (distributed on Jan 21, due on Jan 28)

==Session Twelve, Jan 26-27: Critical Debate and Literary Theory II==

'''Material'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A]
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf Major Theoretical Approaches and Movements in Relation to Wider Social Issues] and
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]

'''Texts'''
*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2003_hanson_screwing_with_children.pdf to be announced.]

'''Skills and Activities'''

Theory and Critical Discussion. Secondary Material.

'''Film Screening''': [[Francis Ford Coppola (dir.). Apocalypse Now ]]
Venue: to be announced

==Session Thirteen, Feb 02-03: Film Analysis: Themes and Techniques==

'''Analytical Tools'''
*Handout: [http://www.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/downloads/handout_film_analysis.pdf Film Analysis]
*Sources: David Bordwell et al.; Korte, Einführung in die Systematische Filmanalyse (2000)

'''Texts'''
*Francis Ford Coppola (dir.). ''Apocalypse Now''.

'''Skills and Activities'''

Spectacle, Narratives and Fiction. Film Analysis. [Fiction worksheet]

==Session Fourteen, Feb 09-10: RPO Projects==

'''Skills and Activities'''

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

[assignment 3 returned]

[[BM1 - Introduction to Literature - Assignment 4: Research Paper Outline|Assignment 4: Term Paper Projects (due on Feb 28)]]

==Further Reading==
*[[William Shakespeare, The Tempest]]
*[[Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness]]
*[[Francis Ford Coppola (dir.), Apocalypse Now]]

[[Category:Basismodul]]
[[Category:Winter 2009-2010|2009-1]]

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

2010-05-11T18:31:19Z

SarahBerres: /* 06.07.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==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==

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

2010-05-11T18:31:11Z

SarahBerres: /* 29.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==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])

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

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-11T18:31:02Z

SarahBerres: /* 22.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==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)

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

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

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-11T18:30:52Z

SarahBerres: /* 15.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==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)

==22.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

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

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-11T18:30:44Z

SarahBerres: /* 08.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==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)

==15.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==22.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

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

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-11T18:30:32Z

SarahBerres: /* 01.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

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

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==15.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==22.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

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

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:59:06Z

SarahBerres: /* 06.07.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==15.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==22.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

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

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:58:51Z

SarahBerres: /* 29.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==15.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==22.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==29.06.10==
Course evaluation. – open topic (developments, comparisons, contrasts)

(Presenter: [Quesseleit])

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:58:08Z

SarahBerres: /* 22.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==15.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==22.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Waiting for the Barbarians: Normativity, the Human, and present tense narration Phelan 1994 and other essays

(Presenters: Kitchingman, Rentmeister)

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:57:37Z

SarahBerres: /* 15.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==15.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Justice, Injustice, Torture in Waiting for the BarbariansWenzel 1996, Urquhart 2006.

(Presenters: Bläsing, Langthaler)

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:57:02Z

SarahBerres: /* 08.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein, narration, gender and rights Barbara Johnson, Anne K. Mellor, in Frankenstein, Norton Crit. Ed.

(Presenters: Kramer, Kienast)

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:54:00Z

SarahBerres: /* 01.06.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==
Critical Discussion: Frankenstein and Human RightsDiana Reese, “A Troubled Legacy” (2006)

(Presenters: Bohlen, Hackmann)

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:53:21Z

SarahBerres: /* 17.05.10 */

* '''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.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)

Historical Backgrounds and Critical Discussion: The History of the Human Rights Discourse, and its Critical Issues.

(Presenter: [Brückner])

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:52:24Z

SarahBerres: /* 10.05.10 */

* '''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.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)

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:52:11Z

SarahBerres: /* 03.05.10 */

* '''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==

==17.05.10==

*[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)

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:51:56Z

SarahBerres: /* 26.04.10 */

* '''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==

==10.05.10==

==17.05.10==

*[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)

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:51:38Z

SarahBerres: /* 19.04.10 */

* '''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==

==03.05.10==

==10.05.10==

==17.05.10==

*[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)

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:51:20Z

SarahBerres: /* 12.04.10 */

* '''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==

==26.04.10==

==03.05.10==

==10.05.10==

==17.05.10==

*[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)

==24.05.10==

==01.06.10==

==08.06.10==

==15.06.10==

==22.06.10==

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

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

2010-05-10T16:48:31Z

SarahBerres: /* 06.07.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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/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."]

Critical Discussion: Gender, Sex and the 19th century contexts of publication for the Justified Sinner

==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

2010-05-10T16:48:17Z

SarahBerres: /* 29.06.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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/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."]

Critical Discussion: Gender, Sex and the 19th century contexts of publication for the Justified Sinner

==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==

==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

2010-05-10T16:48:01Z

SarahBerres: /* 22.06.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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/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."]

Critical Discussion: Gender, Sex and the 19th century contexts of publication for the Justified Sinner

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:47:01Z

SarahBerres: /* 22.06.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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/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."]

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

==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:46:41Z

SarahBerres: /* 15.06.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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/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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:46:06Z

SarahBerres: /* 08.06.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:45:28Z

SarahBerres: /* 01.06.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:44:42Z

SarahBerres: /* 25.05.10 */

* '''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] )

Critical Discussion: Hogg and Fanaticism

(Presenters: Willig, Schürholz)

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:44:02Z

SarahBerres: /* 18.05.10 */

* '''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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:43:39Z

SarahBerres: /* 11.05.10 */

* '''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.

==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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:42:34Z

SarahBerres: /* 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]

==18.05.10==

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

==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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:41:59Z

SarahBerres: /* 27.04.10 */

* '''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==

==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]

==18.05.10==

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

==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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:41:37Z

SarahBerres: /* 20.04.10 */

* '''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==

==4.05.10==

==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]

==18.05.10==

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

==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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:41:23Z

SarahBerres: /* 13.04.10 */

* '''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==

==27.04.10==

==4.05.10==

==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]

==18.05.10==

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

==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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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

2010-05-10T16:41:00Z

SarahBerres: /* 06.04.10 */

* '''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==

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==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]

==18.05.10==

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

==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] )

==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" ]

==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."]

==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))

==22.06.10==

*[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==

==06.07.10==

==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." ]