551.022 (14S) Introduction to Literature b
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german Introduction to Literature b
- Type Portfoliokurs (continuous assessment course )
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 5.0
- Registrations 16 (25 max.)
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction German
- Course begins on 07.03.2014
- Remarks (english) I repeat: This is NOT a lecture course. Active participation in the course is not only useful but REQUIRED.
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Course Information
Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools
Mixed. There will be verbal input by the Course Instructor, there will be discussion of texts and images, you will write three short assignments. Your active participation ("Mitarbeit" in German)in class is essential and worth 20% towards your grade.Distance learning info
noConditions of admission
Max number is 25. Students who were not a admitted in SS13 have a right to be accepted this time.Course content
What IS literature? Have our definitions changed, are they timeless? What are its uses? How do we tell "good" from "trivial" or "bad" literature? We will have to start with a few basic issues. What are 'literary' studies as opposed to culture studies, where do they intersect with or touch upon cultural studies, why do we engage in lit.crit? This course however is also of a "how-to" nature. It aims to provide you with a number of skills that enable you to plan, design, and structure a critical paper. Toward this end we will closely engage with short stories and poems to practice our hermeneutic skills. SYLLABUS: Dates and Subjects Mar 7 WEEK ONE. Administrative details, and “good housekeeping”. Literature or lidderadjure (Ezra Pound!) -- definitions. What is “literaticity”? How does it relate to “Kulchure” (Pound again.) Analysis of “Fleas”, the shortest poem ever written. Sir Philip Sidney as the first (English) literary critic. Mar 14 TWO. ‘Literaturwissenschaft’ versus ‘Criticism.’ Reader response theory. What is “critical literacy”? The literary genres. One: Poetry, a general introduction. What is a poem, and what is it for? What are the uses of Poetry? What is “Prosody”? Analysis of a narrative poem: “My Last Duchess” (READER) Mar 21 THREE. Core Reading Progress Test (30 minutes) on Changing Places. Poetry, continued. READER: Shakespeare, sonnets 19 and 129, a comparison. William Blake and his “The Sick Rose”. The fluidity of meaning in literary works. Mar 28 FOUR. Poetry continued (REA). Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods. Tom Priestly (“The Tap”) and William D. Ehrhart as political poets. What is “negative capability” (John Keats) ? Is poetry per se poetic and thus worth reading? Analysis of “River of Pain” (transparency, not in yr REA) Apr 4 FIVE. Literary genres, IIa. Introduction to “Prose”, “Fiction”, “Fictionality.” Aristotle and mimesis, Sir Philip Sidney and his objective poetic theory. (The rest will be mailed to you.)Topics
- Literaticity
- Criticism or "Literaturwissenschaft"?
- Literary Theories
- Genre 1: Poetry
- Genre 2: fiction (the rise of the novel), Narrative situations
- Genre 3: drama
- Other genres? How about autobiography, essays, journalism?
- Negative capability (Keats).
- "The poet is the unacknowledged legislator of the world" (Shelley)
- Critical literacy
- Utopian and dystopian fiction. Lit. and society.
- Critical terminology (plz do not understimate its importance)
- Time permitting: Cartoons
Teaching objective
To make discerning and CRITICAL readers of you. By critical we mean using your mind rather than your emotions, and the capability to resist the temptation to find everything that is printed also literary.Prior knowledge expected
Enthusiasm! Without enthusiasm it will be a hard slog. Assignment I (week 3) will test your reading progress with our Core Novel (see below). Accounts for 10% of yr grade. Assignment 2 (due in week 6, i.e. April 11): 700-1000 words on a selected poem from our READER. Also 10%. Assignment 3 (due in week 10) apppr. 1500 words on a critical aspect of our core novel. This third paper has to be formally perfect. Your citations should conform with the Anglistik referencing system. Weighted at 20%.Other materials
Xeroxed COURSE READERLiterature
Core Reading: David Lodge, Changing Places (1975). This is a humorous 'campus' novel that also discusses, in passing, literary theories. It is set in 1969; the protagonists are two professors of literature, their wives, and a number of literary students in GB and California. You will LOVE this novel. Try and buy it NOW. Blackwell's (in Oxford) have 25 in stock, priced at 9 pounds plus postage. You can also order it via the university bookstore next to the Ktn Sparkasse. Also recommended: Arno Löffler/Jobst-Chr. Rojahn (Hsgr.): Einführung in das Studium der englischen Literatur. UTB 382. There is also a MOODLE file.Examination information
Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.
Examination topic(s)
A mix of multiple choice, short answers and one somewhat longer essay, on a short literary text.Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations
At the end of the semester there will be a written exam on a number of core issues. Accounts for 40% of your grade. The rest: 40% - the 3 assignments that make up your portfolio; 20% "Mitarbeit"Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation)
(SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
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Stage one
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Subject: Introduction to English and American Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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Theory and Methodology of Literature Studies (
2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
- 551.022 Introduction to Literature b (2.0h PK / 4.0 ECTS)
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Theory and Methodology of Literature Studies (
2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Introduction to English and American Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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Stage one
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
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Subject: Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase
(Compulsory subject)
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Introduction to Literature (
2.0h PK / 5.0 ECTS)
- 551.022 Introduction to Literature b (2.0h PK / 5.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen
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Introduction to Literature (
2.0h PK / 5.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W)
(Compulsory subject)
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Module: Literature (ab 11W)
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Introduction to Literature (
2.0h PK / 5.0 ECTS)
- 551.022 Introduction to Literature b (2.0h PK / 5.0 ECTS)
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Introduction to Literature (
2.0h PK / 5.0 ECTS)
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Module: Literature (ab 11W)
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W)
(Compulsory subject)
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