Introduction to Literary Studies
Vorlesung von Heyl + Altklausurfragen - Die Altklausuren liefen immer nach dem selben Schema ab: 4. Fragen (auf 3 davon kann man sich gut vorbereiten). 1. Frage - Wissen zu Sonetten, Shakespeare, Metrum, Reimschema etc.; 2. Frage - Wissen zu Quellen / Portalen auf denen Literatur zu finden ist (z.B. ECCO, JSTOR etc.); 3. Frage - Erzählperspektive / Erzählsituation bestimmen (nach Genette und/oder Stanzel); 4. Frage - zusätzliches Wissen auf der Vorlesung — Viel Erfolg! :)
Vorlesung von Heyl + Altklausurfragen - Die Altklausuren liefen immer nach dem selben Schema ab: 4. Fragen (auf 3 davon kann man sich gut vorbereiten). 1. Frage - Wissen zu Sonetten, Shakespeare, Metrum, Reimschema etc.; 2. Frage - Wissen zu Quellen / Portalen auf denen Literatur zu finden ist (z.B. ECCO, JSTOR etc.); 3. Frage - Erzählperspektive / Erzählsituation bestimmen (nach Genette und/oder Stanzel); 4. Frage - zusätzliches Wissen auf der Vorlesung — Viel Erfolg! :)
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Who wrote Dracula?
Bram Stoker
Who wrote Beowulf?
An unknown author.
Who wrote "Waiting for Godot"?
Samuel Beckett
Who wrote "The House at Pooh Corner"?
A.A. Milne
What is an Autodiegetic narrator?
Tell the story of their own life.
What should you use to find an authors biography and their works?
- The Oxford Companion to English Literature
- The Oxford Dictionary National Biograpgy (ODNB)
What is probably the most useful handbook on English literature?
The Oxford Companion to English Literature ( as a tool to get basic information on authors and works)
Is it enough to use the local university library catalogue?
No. Use multiple digital resources.
- Online bibliographies,
- Inter-library loans (Fernleihe)
- digital archives
- recent Ph.D. thesis on your topic
Which dictionary should you use only as a last resort?
Bilingual dictionaries
Which dictionary should you use for writing?
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
What dictionary should you use for in depth research about the meaning of words?
OED (available online)
What dictionary should you use for reading?
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Why are there some books that you can't find online / for free?
Because interllectual property is protected by copyright (for books / in Britain: protection for 70 years after authors death)
Where can you find resources with external links to journals, books, websites and many other publications?
MLA International Library
Where can you find English texts printed after 1800?
- Www.archive.org
- JSTOR
Where can you find English texts printed before the year 1800?
- EEBO: Early English Books Online
- ECCO: Eighteens-Century Collection Online
- password from Nationallizenzen.de needed
What is Phrenology?
- The detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities
What is physiognomy?
- A person's facial features or expressions, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin
What is the origin of the gothic genre?
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)
the first gothic novel, therefore all later gothic novels are influenced by it
What kind of novel is "Dracula" by Bram Stoker (1887)
Gothic novel
What is the "new historicist approach"?
Literature influenced by cultural contexts, relevance of cultural history to literary studies.
E.g.: Gulliver's Travels: literature and science in the 18th century
What is Bowderlerization?
A form of censorship, named after Thomas Bowdler who published "The Family Shakespeare" in 1807.
Flashforward
Flashbacks
Story time < Discourse time
Story time > Discourse time
Time it takes to tell or read the story
Time of the events in the story
What is the difference between story time and discourse time?
- Story time: time of the events in the story
- discourse time: time it takes to tell or read the story
- Story time > discourse time: condensed time
- e.g.: several years covert in one parargraph
- Story time < discourse time: stretched time
- e.g.: one brief moment described on several pages
- Non-chronological narration:
- Flashbacks (analepsis)
- Flashforward (prolepsis)
What is Narratology?
"The basic mechanisms and procedures which are common to all storytelling."
Multiple focalization
Variable focalization
Fixed focalization
External focalization
Internal focalization
Name the different focalizations.
- Internal focalization (limits the perspective within a character)
- External focalization (presents information of characters' external behaviour)
- fixed focalization (restricted to one perspective throughout the narrative
- variable focalization (different scenes presented from different perspectives)
- mutliple focalization (comparisons of several perspectives on the same event)
What is the difference between Genette's narrator and focalizer?
- Narrator: Who speaks (to whom, in what way, in what situation)
- Focalizer: who sees, hears, feels, thinks?
overt narrator
covert narrator
narrator visible, refers to themselves
