universit ä tbochum seminarinternes vorlesungsverzeichnis ba-st

ENGLISCHE LITERATUR VON 1700 BIS ZUR GEGENWART
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Vorlesung
050 635 Freed
History of Literary and Cultural Theory, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mi 14-16 HGB 20
In one sense, everyone knows what literature is and how to read it. But then again,
what is “literature”? How exactly does it differ from other kinds of writing in ways that
makes it “literature”? And why do we read “literature” differently than, say, an
instruction manual or telephone book? How and why have the academic practices of
reading changed through time? To ask and explore these and related questions is to
engage in the theory of literature.
This series of lectures will introduce students to significant contributions to and
developments in the theory of literature since the time English Literature became an
academic discipline. The course is organized around the institutional history of
literature studies in Britain and the US. Included are examinations of hermeneutics,
Arnoldean humanism, New Critical formalism, phenomenology and reader response
criticism, structuralism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, versions of
feminism, and poststructuralism and deconstruction.
Seminare
050 638 McColl
Poetry and Prose of Sir Walter Scott, 4 CP
Bochum Summer School, Stirling
Generally credited with the invention of the historical novel, Walter Scott was feted
across Europe as both poet and novelist. Indeed, he is the only major Romantic
writer to succeed popularly and critically in both disciplines, so that while Byron
protests, repeatedly, that his poetry could not imitate the ‘inimitable’ Scott - the
‘monarch of our Parnassus’ - Jane Austen laments: ‘Walter Scott has no business to