2007 BM1-C Introduction to Literature, Part 2
From Angl-Am
- Tu 14:00-16:00
- A10-1-121
This is a sub page of 2007 BM1 Introduction to Literature, Part 2
Session 1: A Poem (April 17, 2007)
Please join Course B in Hörsaal G (A07 0-030) offered by Anton Kirchhofer
Session 2: Poetry and Poetics (April 24, 2007)
Work to be done for this session - read:
- Sir Philip Sidney, "Not at first sight" from Astrophil and Stella
- William Percy, "Sonnet II" from Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia
- Christina Rossetti, "I wish I could remember" from A Pageant and Other Poems
Please read these texts in the text base Anton Kirchhofer provided - the copies offer the better editions.
Session 3: Poetry and Poetics: Speaking about Beautiful/Artful Language (May 8, 2007)
Group Reading: Hamlet (May 12, 2007)
Group reading of William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603). Download the original text (or read the Arden edition). If you join us you can facilitate our planning by registering unter Current events#May 12, 2007: Hamlet.
Session 4: Hamlet Outline (May 15, 2007)
- Folio/ Quarto/ Octavon and Doudecimo Formats.
- The cultural status of Hamlet: What we knew before we read the play.
- How did our view change?
- Who is Who in Hamlet - on the blackboard: how people are related to each other.
- Story and Plot: One can sumarize the events in a
- story (containing both: what happens on stage and what happened elsewhere - in the past or on ocations we do not move to)
- plot outline: Act by act, scene by scene
- Def. act and scene (empty stage between two scenes)
- We stepped into the first act and tried to take a look into the plays exposition.
- Advice: Write an Excerpt.
- start with date (put your excerpts into a file and order them chronologically - recycle them, use texts in different seminars, use excerpts as preparation befor examinations)
- summarize the story in three or four sentences
- draw a tableau of the personel: who is related to whom by family ties, freindship, love...
- Go through the text. Give a sumary of what happenes in each scene. Note topics of interest - things you want to refer to at a later stage (i.e. in a seminar work you want to write or a disczussion you might take part in...)
- Leave room for personal experiences: What surprised you? Where do you felt, the text was difficult to understand? What did you like, what did you hate? These personal notes are extremely interesting as soon as you work on a subject - you might see your views change, and you will otherwise remain unaware of these changes).
Session 5: Rhethorik (May 22, 2007)
- We will read the Ghost scene of Act 1 and discuss Rhetorics - see Handout.
- The play's handling of information: what happens on-stage and what hapens off-stage?
Topics of individual preparation
- Off-stage information: The history before the play, Norway's court, England - only information we get in the play
- The orginal story Saxo Grammaticus, Amleth
leave your name behind the topic if you feel you can offer some three to five minutes of introduction, or hints at those passages where we get the information.
Session 6: Drama: Characters and Genre Aspects (May 29, 2007)
Topics of individual preparation
- Q1 and Q2/Folio esp.: The different places of Hamlets to be or not to be monologue.
